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The Body Recovery: Fatal Cave Dive at Bushman's Hole | Disaster Strikes E 224
Episode 224
In this episode of the Crux podcast's Disaster Strikes segment, hosts Kaycee McIntosh and Julie Henningsen delve into the harrowing story of Dave Sha…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Trapped in Quicksand: 2 Hours vs. 6 Days | E223
Episode 220
Quicksand isn't a movie prop. It's real, it looks completely normal, and it happened to two men in the past three months — one in a frozen Utah canyo…
3 months ago
Fourteen Days Down Under: The Beaconsfield Mine Rescue That Captivated the World | E222
Episode 222
When a 2.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Beaconsfield Gold Mine in Tasmania on ANZAC Day 2006, seventeen miners were underground. Fourteen walked o…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Vanishing at Pendleton Mountain | Disaster Strikes E221
Episode 221
Silver Plume, Colorado — population 130 — became the setting for one of the strangest unsolved disappearances in Rocky Mountain history. In the summe…
3 months, 1 week ago
100 Foot Fall, Broken Back, No Help: Surviving the Arizona Desert | E220
Episode 220
On May 20, 2016, ICU nurse Amber Kornhorst set out on a solo late-afternoon hike near Cane Beds, Arizona, and climbed a deceptively "sticky" sandston…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
30 Minutes Under Ice: The Boy Who Came Back From Death | E219
Episode 219
When the ice cracked beneath Darven Miller's feet on December 13, 1979, it triggered a cascade of events that seemed impossible to survive. The 11-ye…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
100 Yards from Water | Disaster Strikes E218
Episode 218
On July 17, 2006, 29-year-old Dave Buschow collapsed and died from dehydration less than 100 yards from water during a Boulder Outdoor Survival Schoo…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The Miller Cave Tragedy: 7 Entered, 5 Survived | E217
Episode 217
February 28, 1987. Miller Cave, Iowa.
Five college students, their geology professor Kathy McCluskey, and staff member Mike Price descended 112 feet …
4 months ago
Disaster on Franconia Ridge: A White Mountains Survival Story | E216
Episode 216
On February 10, 2008, Fred Frederickson and James Osborne started what should have been a routine winter day hike on New Hampshire's Franconia Ridge.…
4 months, 1 week ago
Adirondack Tragedy: The 9-Day Search for Leo Dufour on Allen Mountain | Disaster Strikes | E215
Episode 215
On a snowy Black Friday in November 2024, a 22-year-old experienced hiker from Quebec set out alone to climb one of the most remote peaks in New York…
4 months, 1 week ago