As the star of a snowboarding film, Brock Crouch prepared to carve up a mountain. One misstep later, he found himself fighting to survive an avalanche of his own making.
Six climbers were trapped high on a deadly mountain. It would take a never-before-attempted helicopter mission to reach them.
Six climbers were trapped high on a deadly mountain. It would take a never-before-attempted helicopter mission to reach them.
It’s hard to imagine a challenge more extreme than the one that befell Daniela Garcia. But this brave woman has reclaimed her life.
The two-year-old was wedged four metres down the shaft, his parents helpless and anxious at the top. The slightest movement, and if the fall didn’t kill him, he’d certainly drown.
Rick Storm stared at the mountainous waves in horror. A child was drowning, and only he could save him.
A family races to save their daughter’s life after an outing to the local river goes terribly wrong.
One moment the helicopter was running perfectly. The next, it was hurtling towards the wind-whipped ocean.
In a 1998 bush fire that tore through rural Victoria, five firefighters made the ultimate sacrifice.
The woman was dying, and the jumbo jet had no time to land. ‘I have to operate,’ the surgeon said.
Dodging the highway traffic, her runaway car was clocking more than 140km per hour.
A lightning strike at 10,000ft saw a 17-year-old girl free fall into Amazonian rainforest – and live to tell the tale.
When a yacht sends out a call for help, it leads to a turn of events that three helicopter rescuers never saw coming.
Scrambling from the downed chopper, the three stunned survivors confronted vents of hissing steam and a boiling lava pit. Sulphurous fumes made them gasp. If there’s a hell, one thought, it’s [...]
For hours, no-one knew that Arick Baker had fallen into a 58°C grain bin and was slowly being squeezed to death.
