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The CRUX: True Survival Stories — 263 episodes
3 Hours in the Heat: The Ultramarathoner Who Vanished in Plain Sight | Disaster Strikes E263
15-Year-Old Alone on Kit Carson Peak: A 200-Foot Fall | E262
Lost in the Outback for 43 Days: The Man Who Didn't Want to be Found | E261
The 1967 Denali Disaster: 7 Climbers Trapped Above 19,000 Feet | Disaster Strikes E 260
A Four-Hour Float, Three Days Lost | E 259
119 Days Upside Down; Trapped Inside the Capsized Rose-Noëlle | E258
Forbidden Island, Certain Death: He Swam to Shore Anyway | Disaster Strikes
15 Hours in a Crevasse: The Denali Rescue That Shouldn't Have Worked
Managing Fear: Survival Lessons from Megan Hine
40 MPH Winds, One Meter of Visibility: The Stranger on Ben Nevis
Swallowed by the Nile; The Life and Death of Hendrik Coetzee | Disaster Strikes
Stranded in Death Valley: Six Days of Impossible Decisions
27 Years of Silence: Maine's North Pond Hermit
Poisoned on Everest: The $20 Million Rescue Scam | Disaster Strikes
Five Hours Overboard in the Pacific
He Woke Up Naked Beside a Polar Bear
The Mount Cleveland Five: 188 Days Buried on Glacier National Park's Highest Peak | Disaster Strikes
He Left the Raft. Lost for 5 Days. Why?
Voices of Misery - 'Aita LIVE!'
60 Feet Away: How a 19-Year-Old Stopped a Grizzly Attack With His Bare Hands
500 Yards From Safety: The 1971 Cairngorm Plateau Disaster: Disaster Strikes
181 Miles in the Wrong Direction: Lost in the Sahara
9 Days Stranded in the Nevada Wilderness; The Wrong Turn That Took a Life
He Left Her 50 Meters From the Summit. Was It a Crime? | Disaster Strikes
Lost Behind Enemy Lines for 2 Weeks: After Taking 30 Meth Pills
Frozen Solid at 3 Years Old: The Christmas Eve Miracle That Stumped Medicine
O Circuit Tragedy: 120 MPH | Disaster Strikes
30 Seconds to Escape: The Sinking of the Cynthia Woods
42 Years in Siberia: The Family That Vanished From the World
Frozen in Time: Solving the Dyatlov Pass Mystery with Science | Disaster Strikes
3 Days Missing in a Ravine: The Boy No One Could Find
99 Days in the Dark; The Overland Relief Expedition
80 Feet: A Via Ferrata Tragedy in Colorado | Disaster Strikes
3 Nights Trapped in a Canyon With a Broken Pelvis
Sucked into the Sky at 33,000 Feet: The Ewa Wiśnierska Story
The Orange Tent Guy, Balin Miller's Fatal Fall from Yosemite's El Capitan | Disaster Strikes
43 Days Lost in the Himalayan Winter: Trapped Without Food or Fire | E226
Nineteen Days in the Idaho Wilderness: They Did What They Had to Do | E 225
The Body Recovery: Fatal Cave Dive at Bushman's Hole | Disaster Strikes E 224
Trapped in Quicksand: 2 Hours vs. 6 Days | E223
Fourteen Days Down Under: The Beaconsfield Mine Rescue That Captivated the World | E222
The Vanishing at Pendleton Mountain | Disaster Strikes E221
100 Foot Fall, Broken Back, No Help: Surviving the Arizona Desert | E220
30 Minutes Under Ice: The Boy Who Came Back From Death | E219
100 Yards from Water | Disaster Strikes E218
The Miller Cave Tragedy: 7 Entered, 5 Survived | E217
Disaster on Franconia Ridge: A White Mountains Survival Story | E216
Adirondack Tragedy: The 9-Day Search for Leo Dufour on Allen Mountain | Disaster Strikes | E215
Seventy-Two Days: Alive in the Andes | E214
Frozen and Forgotten: Leon Crane's 120-Mile Walk Through Arctic Alaska | E213
Green Boots Cave - The Controversial Mount Everest Death That Shocked the World | Disaster Strikes E212
Crushed Beneath a Boulder | E211
Four Days Underwater and in the Dark: The Tony Bullimore Miracle Rescue | E210
Disaster Strikes: Two Miles-The Harris Levinson Tragedy | E209
133 Days Adrift: The Longest Life Raft Survival Ever | E208
Surviving Niagara Falls: The Impossible True Story of 7-Year-Old Roger Woodward | E207
Audrey Mestre's Fatal World Record Freedive | Disaster Strikes E206
The Surgeon Who Rewires Lives - Part 2 | E205
Surviving Paralysis: The Fight to Walk Again - Part 1 | E204
Buried Alive: Surviving a Himalayan Avalanche at 14,000 Feet | E203
Tragedy on Victory Peak | Disaster Strikes E202
Plane Disintegrated Midair: Juliane Koepcke Falls Two Miles Into the Amazon | E201
10 Days Lost: California Hiker Survives Santa Cruz Mountains Against All Odds | E200
Catastrophic Dive: Lessons from the Titan Submersible Tragedy | Disaster Strikes E199
Surviving the Killer Mountain: Three Nights in the Death Zone | E198
Floating in 90-Foot Waves Without a Life Raft: The La Conte Fishing Vessel Tragedy in Alaska | E197
Christopher McCandless: The True Story Behind Into the Wild's Tragic Alaska Death | Disaster Strikes E 196
Broken and Alone: Six Days on a Norwegian Mountain | E 195
The Lone Survivor of Early Winters Spire: Anton Tselykh's Impossible Escape from the Cascades | E194
60 Minutes to Survive: Inside the Pacific Northwest Survival Games: Bonus | E193
Sealed in Stone - The John Edward Jones Nutty Putty Cave Incident | Disaster Strikes E192
Walk or Wait: Carolina Wilga's Fight to Survive the Outback | E191
Franklin River Rescue: 20-Hour Ordeal Ends in Underwater Amputation | E190
What Happened to Gerry Largay – Disaster Strikes| E189
No Way Out: How an Injured Motorcyclist Survived the Idaho Wilderness | E188
Solo Flight Gone Wrong: Sheryl Ramstad's Journey from Tragedy to Triumph | E187
Stranded in Remote Canada: Andrew Barber's Nine-Day Fight to Survive | E 186
The Miracle at 33,000 Feet: How Vesna Vulović Survived the Highest Fall in History | E185
The Bluebell Sinking: 11-Year-Old Terry Jo's Four Days Adrift | E184
Norman Ollestad Jr.'s Miraculous Escape from the San Gabriel Mountains | E183
The Rescue Behind the Seven Teacups: Ryan Wardwell's Astonishing Survival | E182
Grandma Gatewood: The Unstoppable Trailblazer | E181
Miracle in Miami Bay: The Survival of Calena Areyan Gruber | E 180
Alligator Attack Victim Endures 3 Days in Florida Wetlands | E 179
Pacific Northwest Survival Games: Survival Skills Competition Turned Reality TV Show | E 178
Bear Mauls Alaskan Hiker, Rescued thanks to a Drone | E 177
Deserted Island Survival: 6 Teens Defied Odds for 15 Months | E 176
9/11 Survivors: Those Who Escaped the South Tower via Stairwell A | E 175
Lightning Strike Survival: The Most Spectacular Rescue in American Mountaineering History | E 174
The Last Goodbye: Survival in the Gulf of Mexico | E 173
Lost in the World's Largest Sandbox: The Steiner Family Tragedy | E172
Somali Pirates vs Navy SEALs: The Shocking True Story Behind Captain Phillips | E171
Frozen Fifteen Feet from Safety: How Jean Hilliard Survived 6 Hours at -22°F | E170
Disaster Strikes! The Haunting Descent: Marco Siffredi's Obsession with Everest's Greatest Line | E 169
Lost in Sierra Nevada: Tiffany Slaton Survives 24 Days Alone | E 168
The Kyrgyzstan Kidnapping: A Climbing Dream Turned Nightmare | E 167
The Pilot Who Was Sucked Out of His Own Plane at 17,000 Feet | E 166
Disaster Strikes! The Last Transmission: 33 Souls Lost in Hurricane Joaquin | E 165
Trapped in Ice: The Karluk Shipwreck Arctic Survival Story | E 164
Twice-Rescued: The Student Who Needed Saving from Mount Fuji Two Times in Four Days | E 163
Disaster Strikes! The Silent Killer Next Door: Carbon Monoxide's Deadly Deception | E 162
The Voluntary Castaway: Dr. Bombard's Revolutionary Atlantic Crossing | E 161
A Boy, A Desert, and A Hero Dog: The Incredible Survival of Bodin Allen | E 160
Disaster Strikes! The Mysterious Disappearance of Ranger Randy Morganson | E 159
Dark Waters, Circling Death: The USS Indianapolis Disaster | E 158
In the Jaws of Polar Bears: Surviving Arctic's Apex Predator | E 157
Disaster Strikes! Tragedy in Death Valley: The German Tourist Mystery | E 156
Alone in Antarctica: Richard Byrd's Deadly Solitude | E 155
Matt Reum's Remarkable Recovery After Being Trapped in His Truck for Six Days | E 154
Six Days Trapped in his Truck: The Impossible Survival of Matt Reum | E153
Swallowed by Sandy: The Hollywood Ship's Last Voyage and the Heroes Who Saved Its Crew | E 152
Against All Odds: How a 13-Year-Old Boy Saved His Father in the Wilderness | E151
The Barefoot Bandit: Colton Harris-Moore's Extraordinary Crime Spree and Survival Saga | E 150
The Coldest Night: Rob Gerings 12-Hour Fight for Survival | E 149
Wrong Turn: The Kim Family Tragedy on Bear Camp Road | E 148
12 Seconds: A Pro Snowmobiler's Life-Changing Moment | E 147
Hunted Becomes Hunter: The Vengeful Whale and the Essex | E 146
When Pet Becomes Predator: A 10-Minute Battle with a Domesticated Buck | E 145
Terrors on the River of Doubt: Roosevelt's Most Dangerous Adventure | E 144
Buried Alive: Anna Conrad's Five-Day Fight Beneath the Snow | E 143
Flight 1549: The Miracle on the Hudson | E 142
Survival in the Bernese Alps: The Incredible 1946 C-53 Dakota Crash and Rescue | E 141
Surviving King Philip's War: Mary Rowlandson's Incredible Story | E 140
The 780 MPH Ejection: The Impossible Survival of Captain Brian Udell | E139
Abandon Ship: The Costa Concordia’s Night of Chaos | E 138
83 Seconds: The Frank Slide Catastrophe | E137
311 Days Underground: An Iraq Hostage's Fight for Survival | E136
Darkness on the Bering Sea: The Sinking of the Alaska Ranger | E135
They Should've DIED From These Snake Bites... But Somehow Survived! | E134
Helene's Path: 500 Miles of Destruction | E133
When Joy Turned to Horror: Inside Indiana's Halloween Nightmare | E132
The Venomous Snake that Fell from the Sky | E131
A 60-Foot Fall, 4 Days Alone: Amy Racina's Incredible Survival in the Sierra Nevadas | E130
Attack of the Warthog: When a Pet Warthog Fights Back, and Other Exotic Animal Encounters | E129
Capsized: The Tamwoy Siblings' Unbelievable Fight for Survival | E128
Lost and Barefoot: Surviving a Month in the Cascades | E127
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919: A Sticky Historical Disaster | E126
Surviving the Wild: Shane Burke's Battle with a Grizzly in the Tetons | E125
Terror in the Skies: Pilots Lose Control of a Flight at 37,000 Feet | E124
Escape from Hell: One Photographer's Fight to Survive Mount St. Helens | E123
The Epic Mt. St. Helens Eruption: Venus Dergan and Ronald Reitan's Unexpected Survival | E122
Torpedoed: The Remarkable WWII Survival of Ray Downs and His Family | E121
100 Miles in the Sonoran Desert: Pablo Valencia's Fight for Survival | E120
Overboard: Stories of Two Men Who Defied the Odds After Falling from Cruise Ships | E119
The Gripping Tale of Captain James Riley and the Shipwreck of Commerce Part 2 | E118
The Gripping Tale of Captain James Riley and the Shipwreck of Commerce Part 1 | E117
The Remarkable Survival of John Vihtelic: 16 Days Trapped in a Ravine | E116
Desert Tragedy: The Untold WWII Sahara Survival Story | E115
Debunking Common Survival Myths with Expert Insights | E114
Fact or Fiction? Survival Trivia Quiz | E 113
Surviving Against All Odds: Eddie Rickenbacker's Journey – Part 2 | E112
Surviving Against All Odds: Eddie Rickenbacker's Journey – Part 1 | E111
A Man is Buried Alive by the Thredbo Landslide for Sixty Five Hours | E110
The Unbelievable Survival of Slavomir Rawicz: Part 2 | E109
The Unbelievable Survival of Slavomir Rawicz: Part 1 | E108
Surviving a Kangaroo Attack: Melanie's True Outback Encounter | E107
Part Two: Left for Dead-Michael Odom's Ocean Standoff | E106
Part One: Coast Guard Rescue Gone Wrong - Michael Odom's Ocean Standoff | E105
A Broken Dam Leads to a 60 Foot Water Wall that Pummeled a Town: The Johnstown Flood | E104
White Squall: Tragedy Strikes when a Sailboat Capsizes with Students Aboard | E103
Celebrating 100 episodes: Part Two, Most Favorite Stories Recapped | E102
Celebrating 100 episodes; 5 of the most Popular Episodes | E101
Against the Avalanche: The Miraculous Survival of Adam Herman and Conor Lodge | E100
Surviving Superstorms: Expert Tips and Real Stories | E99
Tragedy in Yellowstone: Surviving a Geothermal | E98
Queen of Shangri-La: Plane Crash in New Guinea, The Gremlin Special | E97
Surviving the Skies: The Unbelievable Journey of Yaya Abdi - Flight in an Airplane Wheel Well | E96
Victoria Grover: 5 Nights Alone in the Desert | E95
Skydiving Gone Wrong: Jordan Hatmaker's Brush with Death | E94
Self Amputation for Survival | E93
Beneath the Bricks: Tunnel 29's Daring Escape in Cold War Berlin | E92
Surviving Everest: Robert Kay's Life Threatening Journey Through the Death Zone | True High-Altitude Adventure | E91
Maurice and Maralyn Bailey's Castaway Journey | E90
From Plane Crash to Glacier Rescue - A Pilot's Heroic Role in Saving Injured Climbers in Remote Alaska | E89
Steve Rodgers Salmon River Odyssey | E88
Jen Royce: Otter Ambush on the Jefferson River | E87
Baby Jessica: The 1987 Rescue of Jessica McClure from a Well | E86
Anne Hjelle: Escape from the Fangs of a Mountain Lion | E85
Hugh Glass: A Tale of Survival Against All Odds | E84
Ruth Woroniecki: 200 Foot Fall on Cucamonga Peak | E83
Defying Everest: Lincoln Hall's Miraculous Survival of the Death Zone on Mt. Everest | E82
Lauren Elder: Plane Crash in the Sierra Nevada Mt Range | E81
Surviving the Impossible: Trapped under a Boulder | E80
Tragedy Strikes Mammoth Mountain: Unveiling the unseen Danger of Fumaroles | E79
Beneath the Surface: Seven Men Trapped in the French Vitarelles Caverns for Ten days | E78
When Lightning Strikes Twice: A Hike up Half Dome gets Electrified | E77
Adrift: Bill Durden's 2016 Epic 20 hr Open Water Swim | E76
Tragedy on the Mountains: The Mann Gulch Fire Disaster | E75
Surviving the Utah Wilderness: Justin and Jeremy Harris's Canyoneering Odyssey | E74
Tragedy on Mount Hood: The Untold Story of the 1986 Oregon Episcopal School Expedition | E73
The Jungle Resilience: Four Children, Forty Days | E72
Frozen Odyssey: Douglas Mawson's Epic Antarctic Survival | E71
Quinn Brett Interview: 120 Foot fall on El Capitan | E70
Plane Crash in the Rocky Mountains | E69
Stranded in the Snow: Jim and Jennifer Stolpa's Fight for Survival | E68
Gina Allen & Brandon Day: Day Hike on Mt San Jacinto Turned Nightmare | E67
The Butte Mining Incident of 1917 | E66
Wolf Wagner & Johannes Hoentsch: Canoe Trip in Remote Canada gone Wrong | E65
Steve Callahan; 76 Days Lost at Sea | E64
Sydnie Uemoto & David McMahon: Open Water Swim Following a Plane Crash | E63
Disaster on Mount Hood; In the Blink of an Eye a Massive Accident Takes out Multiple Climbers | E62
Laurent Camprubi: His Sailboat Capsized Leaving him Trapped in an Air Bubble | E61
Adrian Knopps: Alone for Seven Days in Misty Fjords AK after a Tragic Accident | E60
Matt Henningsen: Successful Bear Hunt to an Unexpected Medical Emergency | E59
Violet Jessop: She lived through three ship wrecks in her lifetime, one of which was the Titanic | E58
Greg Hein: Survived Six Days on Remote Mt. Goddard | E57
Ken Killip: Lost in the Rocky Mountains | E56
Jamie Mosch: Survived 5 days in the Everglades | E55
Michelle Funk: A Small Child who Survived Under Unlikely Circumstances | E54
Welcome Julie Henningsen to The Crux Podcast
John Colter's Run: John Colter Runs for his Life as Blackfeet Worriers Chase him on Foot | E53
Michael Packard: Inside the Mouth of a Whale | E52
Andrew Gaskell: Into the Jungle to Find Himself only to Lose His Way | E51
Autumn Veatch: Wilderness Survival Following Plane Crash in the Northern Cascades | E50
Donn Fendler: A 12 yo Boy Gets Lost on a Mountain in Maine in the Summer of 1939 | E49
Jeff Schock: Captain of the No Longer Floating St. Joseph | E48
47) Tony Streather: Mountaineers Struggle to Survive Following an Avalanche on Mt. Haramosh in 1957.
46) Nelson Simón: A Beginner Sailor Learns the Ropes and has an Unexpected Meeting with Hurricane Grace
45) Jan Baalsrud: Escape from the Gestapo during WW2
44) The Robertson Family: Shipwrecked by Whales
43) David Cronenwett: Wisdom from a Survival Expert
42) Anders Broste: Attack by a Grizzly Bear While Hunting
41) Jean Muenchrath: Escape from Mt Whitney
40) Ann Rodgers: Lost in the Desert for 9 Days
39) Andrew Devers: Lost for 9 days in the Wilderness.
38) Lorraine Jonsson: Snake Bite in Franklin Canyon Park
37) Amber Kohnhorst: Fall from 100 Feet, Alone in Arizona
36) Carter Viss: Ran Over by a 36 Foot Cruising Boat in Florida
35) Amanda Eller: Lost at the Wakamaya Reserve for 17 Days
34) William Coston: Plane Crash in the Bermuda Triangle in 1949
33) Larrane Leech: Visited by a Mountain Lion
32) Abby Sunderland: 16 yo Attempts to Circumnavigate World in Yacht
31) Mark and Phillip and the Treacherous Mount Cook Climb
30) Todd Endris and the Great White Shark
29) 1953 K2 Expedition: Eight Men Set off to Seek Adventure on K2, but were Met with Difficulty
28) Anna Bågenholm- A Medical Student who Survived Hypothermia and the Lowest Body Temperature ever Recorded.
27) Reshma Begum: Survived within a Building after it Collapsed
26) The Death Defying Film Crew: Helicopter Crash into Kilauea Volcano
25) Carol Martini and Jay Barry: Attacked by Pirates out at Sea
24) Eric LeMarque: One Wrong Turn Under the Ski Boundary at Mammoth Left Eric in the Cold
23) The Chilean Mining Accident: In 2010, 33 Unlucky Chilean Miners got Trapped when the San Jose Copper-Gold Mine Collapsed
22) Takeyasu Minamiura and the 1990 Great Epic of Trango Tower: Paraglide Gone Wrong
21) The Evans Family: Plane Crash into a Mountain in Alaska
20) Deborah Scaling Kiley: Sharks in the Water!! A Skilled Sailor Attempts to Transport a Ship To Florida From Maine, but Meets a Large Stor
19) The Endurance: The Story of Earnest Shakleton, His Crew, and Their Survival on the Icy Waters of the Antarctic Ocean
18) Yossi Ghinsberg: Survived 3 Weeks in the Amazon Alone
17) Nicholas Alkemade: Jumped From an Airplane Without a Parachute
16) Joe Simpson & Simon Yates; The Mountain Survival Story that Inspired the Book, Touching the Void
15) The Wild Boars Football Team: Rescue from Tham Luang Cave
14) Tyson Steele: Alone and Resourceful in the Alaskan Winter After a House Fire
13) Paul Templer: Attacked by a Rogue Hippo
12) Ricky Megee; Left for Dead in the Desert of Australia
11) Ed and Kelly Moellmer: Father/Daughter Backcountry Ski Turned Nightmare
10) Higgen's Family Snow Cave and Amber Van Hecke's Wrong Turn
9) Jose Salvador Alvarenga: Lost at Sea for 438 Days
8) Angela Hernandez: Stranded on a Beach for Seven Days
7) Todd Orr: Attacked Twice by a Bear
6) Harrison Okene: Trapped Inside a Boat
5) Mary Vincent: Hitchhiking Gone Wrong
4) Juliane Koepcke: Airplane Free Fall to the Jungle
3) Aron Ralston: Trapped in a Canyon
2) Mauro Prosperi: Lost in the Desert
1) Beck Weathers: Left for Dead on Everest