Alone After Dark: A Fatal Grizzly Encounter in Glacier National Park | E265
A late-afternoon hike in Glacier National Park seemed simple enough: climb toward the Mount Brown Fire Lookout, watch the sunset, and head back down.But as darkness settled over Mount Brown, 33-year-o...
24 Sep 37min
15 Minutes in a Cougar's Jaws | E 264
On February 17, 2024, five experienced cyclists set out on a familiar gravel-bike route through Washington's Cascade foothills. Nineteen miles into their ride, two cougars appeared on the trail. Secon...
21 Sep 37min
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
