Abandoned for 15 Years: The Shipwreck Survivors of Tromelin Island | E 264
On the night of July 31, 1761, the L'Utile struck a reef off a nameless sandbar in the Indian Ocean with 160 Malagasy people locked below deck. What happened over the next two months — who got water, ...
14 Sep 39min
3 Hours in the Heat: The Ultramarathoner Who Vanished in Plain Sight | Disaster Strikes E263
Philip Kreycik was 37, a Harvard graduate, an ultramarathoner, and an experienced outdoorsman. On July 10, 2021, he left for a training run at Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park in California, telling his...
10 Sep 21min
15-Year-Old Alone on Kit Carson Peak: A 200-Foot Fall | E262
A 15-year-old hiker set out on an ambitious three-day backpacking trip through Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains, planning to summit four 14ers. He successfully climbed Challenger Point and Kit Ca...
7 Sep 34min
Lost in the Outback for 43 Days: The Man Who Didn't Want to be Found | E261
When tourists found an abandoned bicycle on a remote track in Australia's Great Sandy Desert, it triggered one of the strangest missing person searches in outback history — police, aircraft, and Abori...
31 Aug 36min
The 1967 Denali Disaster: 7 Climbers Trapped Above 19,000 Feet | Disaster Strikes E 260
In July 1967, only 213 people had ever stood on the summit of Denali. When an inexperienced climbing team was denied a permit, the National Park Service made an unusual decision: merge them with a str...
27 Aug 23min
A Four-Hour Float, Three Days Lost | E 259
A summer tubing trip on Michigan’s Muskegon River was supposed to last just four hours. But when two women and a nine-year-old boy failed to return, a massive search and rescue operation began.Boats, ...
24 Aug 46min
119 Days Upside Down; Trapped Inside the Capsized Rose-Noëlle | E258
At 6 AM on June 4, 1989, a wave the skipper estimated at sixty feet flipped the trimaran Rose-Noëlle upside down off New Zealand’s East Cape, trapping four men — a self-taught sailor sleeping aboard e...
17 Aug 36min
Forbidden Island, Certain Death: He Swam to Shore Anyway | Disaster Strikes
John Allen Chau spent years preparing for one mission: reach the Sentinelese — the world's most isolated tribe, on an island India has forbidden outsiders from entering since 1956 — and share the Chri...
13 Aug 34min
