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60 Feet Away: How a 19-Year-Old Stopped a Grizzly Attack With His Bare Hands | E 243
Jun 22, 2026
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500 Yards From Safety: The 1971 Cairngorm Plateau Disaster: Disaster Strikes | E 242
Jun 18, 2026
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181 Miles in the Wrong Direction: Lost in the Sahara | E 241
Jun 15, 2026
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9 Days Stranded in the Nevada Wilderness; The Wrong Turn That Took a Life | E240
Jun 8, 2026
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The Grossglockner Case That Changed Alpine Law | Disaster Strikes E239
Jun 4, 2026
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| 6/22/26 | ![]() 60 Feet Away: How a 19-Year-Old Stopped a Grizzly Attack With His Bare Hands | E 243 | When a grizzly bear attacked his friend on a Wyoming mountainside, 19-year-old Kendell Cummings had seconds to make an impossible choice—run, or fight a 450-pound apex predator with his bare hands. This is the true story of what happened next. | — | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | ![]() 500 Yards From Safety: The 1971 Cairngorm Plateau Disaster: Disaster Strikes | E 242 | In November 1971, a school expedition of fourteen teenagers and three young leaders set out to cross the Cairngorm Plateau in the Scottish Highlands — and walked into one of the worst blizzards the mountain had ever seen. Stranded for two nights in a snow hole just 500 yards from an emergency shelter, five students and an eighteen-year-old trainee instructor died of hypothermia before rescuers could reach them. This episode examines the cascade of decisions — from route planning to equipment to the controversial shelter that drew them there — that turned a school trip into the deadliest mountaineering disaster in British history. | — | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | ![]() 181 Miles in the Wrong Direction: Lost in the Sahara | E 241 | In 1994, Mauro Prosperi—a 38-year-old Olympic pentathlete and Italian police officer—entered the Marathon des Sables, a 156-mile ultramarathon across the Moroccan Sahara. A sandstorm on day four erased his trail, his map, and any way home. What followed was nine and a half days alone in the desert: bat blood, his own urine, a suicide attempt his body wouldn't allow, and a walk in the wrong direction through one of Earth's harshest places—while search teams looked 170 miles away. | — | ||||||
| 6/8/26 | ![]() 9 Days Stranded in the Nevada Wilderness; The Wrong Turn That Took a Life | E240 | In March 2022, Ronnie and Beverly Barker — a retired Air Force veteran and his wife from Indianapolis — followed their GPS onto a remote Nevada mountain road and didn't come back for nine days. Only one of them made it home. | — | ||||||
| 6/4/26 | ![]() The Grossglockner Case That Changed Alpine Law | Disaster Strikes E239 | On a freezing January night in 2025, Thomas Plamberger descended Austria's highest mountain alone, leaving his girlfriend Kerstin Gurtner — exhausted, hypothermic, and just fifty meters from the summit — behind in the dark. By morning, she was dead, and a question the alpine world had never had to answer in court was suddenly on trial. | — | ||||||
| 6/1/26 | ![]() Lost Behind Enemy Lines for 2 Weeks: After Taking 30 Meth Pills | E238 | Finnish corporal Aimo Koivunen swallowed 90 mg of methamphetamine to stay awake during a 1944 ski patrol in Soviet Lapland. Psychosis followed. He skied 100 km on autopilot, stumbled through a Soviet camp, burned down a cabin, and spent two and a half weeks surviving on pine buds and landmine wounds before rescue. He weighed 43 kg with a 200 bpm heart rate—his toes never recovered. A case study in how war drives armies to chemical desperation. | — | ||||||
| 5/25/26 | ![]() Frozen Solid at 3 Years Old: The Christmas Eve Miracle That Stumped Medicine | E 237 | On Christmas Eve morning, a three-year-old girl was found frozen solid in a snowdrift behind her family's West Virginia trailer — no heartbeat, no breath, core temperature of 74 degrees F. What followed was one of the most remarkable resuscitations in the history of emergency medicine. | — | ||||||
| 5/21/26 | ![]() O Circuit Tragedy: 120 MPH | Disaster Strikes E236 | On November 17, 2025, five hikers died of hypothermia on Chile's John Garner Pass after being told a forecasted cyclone was "normal for Patagonia" by refugio staff, while no park rangers were present due to election-day staffing shortages. Survivors organized their own rescue with makeshift stretchers and satellite devices, then had to self-evacuate while injured. The episode examines the system failures that led to the deaths of Victoria Bond, Cristina Calvillo Tovar, Julian Garcia Pimentel, Nadine Lichey, and Andreas von Pein, and survivors' calls for improved ranger presence, emergency planning, and communication systems. | — | ||||||
| 5/18/26 | ![]() 30 Seconds to Escape: The Sinking of the Cynthia Woods | E235 | In June 2008, the racing sailboat Cynthia Woods lost its keel during the Regatta de Amigos in the Gulf of Mexico and capsized in under a minute, 11 miles offshore. Safety officer Roger Stone saved two crewmates before disappearing beneath the surface. The five survivors spent 26 hours adrift with almost nothing — no life raft, no EPIRB, one flashlight. The episode explores how they made it, what went wrong, and the complicated aftermath of Roger Stone's sacrifice. | — | ||||||
| 5/11/26 | ![]() 42 Years in Siberia: The Family That Vanished From the World | E234 | In 1978, Soviet geologists stumbled upon a family living 150 miles from the nearest human settlement — a family that had been there since 1936, with no outside contact, no idea World War II had happened, and two children who had never seen another human face. This is the story of the Lykov family, and it is one of the most extraordinary true survival stories ever documented. | — | ||||||
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| 5/7/26 | ![]() Frozen in Time: Solving the Dyatlov Pass Mystery with Science | Disaster Strikes E 233 | Nine experienced Soviet hikers cut through their tent from the inside and fled into deadly cold wearing almost nothing—six froze to death, three suffered injuries comparable to a car crash, and one was found missing her tongue and eyes. After 65 years of conspiracy theories, science may finally explain what happened on Dead Mountain in 1959. | — | ||||||
| 5/4/26 | ![]() 3 Days Missing in a Ravine: The Boy No One Could Find | E 232 | A routine ride. A missed arrival. A search that didn’t add up. In July 2025, a 13-year-old boy vanished in his grandmother's neighborhood—setting off a race against time in terrain that hid more than anyone expected. | — | ||||||
| 4/27/26 | ![]() 99 Days in the Dark; The Overland Relief Expedition | E 231 | In the winter of 1897, 265 whalers were locked in Arctic ice at the top of Alaska with no ship able to reach them until summer — so three men volunteered to walk 1,500 miles through polar night to bring the food to them. This is the true story of the most extraordinary overland rescue in American history, and the birth of the US Coast Guard. | — | ||||||
| 4/23/26 | ![]() 80 Feet: A Via Ferrata Tragedy in Colorado | Disaster Strikes E 230 | On September 20th, 2025, 26-year-old Colorado guide Olivia Copeland fell 80 feet to her death while demonstrating a rappel — killed by a single threading error in her belay device. What investigators found at Arkansas Valley Adventures was damning: no written training, no competency testing, no backup safety systems. Guides learned by watching. Some didn't know backups existed. Olivia's death pulls back the curtain on Colorado's via ferrata industry, where companies write their own safety rules with little outside oversight. This is a story about what happens when routine becomes autopilot — and there's nothing left to catch the mistake. | — | ||||||
| 4/20/26 | ![]() 3 Nights Trapped in a Canyon With a Broken Pelvis | E229 | In December 2006, elite endurance athlete Danelle Ballengee fell 60 feet onto frozen canyon floor near Moab, Utah, shattering her pelvis and leaving her stranded alone for 52 hours in freezing temperatures. With almost nothing to survive on, she endured internal bleeding, severe frostbite, and sub-zero nights while unable to signal for help. Her dog Taz saved her life by repeatedly running five miles to the trailhead until he led search and rescue back to her just before dark on the third day. | — | ||||||
| 4/13/26 | ![]() Sucked into the Sky at 33,000 Feet: The Ewa Wiśnierska Story | E228 | When a routine training flight turned deadly, champion paraglider Ewa Wiśnierska was pulled unconscious into a thunderstorm and carried higher than Mount Everest. What her GPS recorded over the next 40 minutes defies medical explanation. | — | ||||||
| 4/9/26 | ![]() The Orange Tent Guy, Balin Miller's Fatal Fall from Yosemite's El Capitan | Disaster Strikes E 227 | Twenty-three-year-old Balin Miller made history in 2025 with audacious solo climbs including the first solo ascent of Denali's Slovak Direct and the second-ever ascent of Canada's deadly Reality Bath route—but on October 1st, after successfully completing one of El Capitan's hardest routes, a single missing safety knot cost him his life. This is the story of the glitter-wearing climber known as "Orange Tent Guy," whose death was witnessed by hundreds on a livestream, and whose brief but brilliant career made him a legend in the climbing world. | — | ||||||
| 4/6/26 | ![]() 43 Days Lost in the Himalayan Winter: Trapped Without Food or Fire | E226 | On December 22nd, 1991, a 22-year-old medical student from Brisbane crawled under a rock overhang in the Nepalese Himalayas. The record for survival at that elevation in Himalayan winter was ten days. James Scott lasted forty-three. Kaycee McIntosh and Julie Henningsen tell the story — what went wrong on the Gosainkunda trail, what it cost him, and the two people who refused to stop looking long after everyone else had given up. | — | ||||||
| 3/30/26 | ![]() Nineteen Days in the Idaho Wilderness: They Did What They Had to Do | E 225 | On May 5th, 1979, a small plane carrying four people from a small Canadian city went down in the mountains of central Idaho. What followed was nineteen days of survival that pushed two ordinary young people to the absolute edge of what a human being can endure — and beyond. | — | ||||||
| 3/26/26 | ![]() The Body Recovery: Fatal Cave Dive at Bushman's Hole | Disaster Strikes E 224 | In this episode of the Crux podcast, hosts Kaycee McIntosh and Julie Henningsen recount the tragic story of technical diver Dave Shaw, who died attempting to recover the body of Deon Dreyer from the staggering depths of Bushman's Hole in South Africa. The episode explores the extreme physiological and equipment dangers of deep cave diving, the chain of events that led to Shaw's fatal dive, and the ethical questions surrounding his recovery mission. It's a sobering look at the limits of human endurance and the profound bonds that drive divers to risk everything for one another. | — | ||||||
| 3/23/26 | ![]() Trapped in Quicksand: 2 Hours vs. 6 Days | E223 | Quicksand isn't something that only happens in movies — it happened to two real men in the past three months, in places that looked completely ordinary. We follow Austin Dirks, an experienced thru-hiker trapped knee-deep in freezing sand in Arches National Park, and Andrew Giddens, who spent days invisible and shoulder-deep in a Florida mud pit before anyone found him. The difference between 2 hours and 6 days comes down to one device. | — | ||||||
| 3/16/26 | ![]() Fourteen Days Down Under: The Beaconsfield Mine Rescue That Captivated the World | E222 | On April 25, 2006, an earthquake buried two Australian gold miners nearly a kilometer underground. What followed was fourteen days of darkness, physical collapse, and extraordinary human will — and a rescue the entire world watched in real time. | — | ||||||
| 3/12/26 | ![]() The Vanishing at Pendleton Mountain | Disaster Strikes E221 | In 1988, a Chicago sportswriter left everything behind to write a novel in a tiny Colorado mountain town — and then vanished without a trace the same week investigators found the body of the mysterious man who'd occupied his storefront the year before. Over 200 searchers, 18 dogs, and a fatal plane crash later, Keith Reinhard was never found — and the question of what really happened still has no answer. | — | ||||||
| 3/9/26 | ![]() 100 Foot Fall, Broken Back, No Help: Surviving the Arizona Desert | E220 | On May 20, 2016, 25-year-old ICU nurse Amber Kohnhorst set out on a solo sunset hike near Cane Beds, Arizona — and never came back. What followed was nearly 28 hours of survival in one of the most remote and unforgiving landscapes in the American Southwest, with injuries that should have been fatal and no way to call for help. This episode breaks down exactly how she survived, and what every hiker needs to know before heading out alone. | — | ||||||
| 3/2/26 | ![]() 30 Minutes Under Ice: The Boy Who Came Back From Death | E219 | In December 1979, 11-year-old Darven Miller fell through the ice on Duncan Creek and remained submerged for nearly 30 minutes before rescuers pulled his lifeless body from the freezing water. What happened next at a small Wisconsin hospital would defy every medical expectation and help rewrite the protocols for cold water drowning survival. | — | ||||||
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