As residents slept, much of a Florida condominium building collapsed, killing scores and sending survivors fleeing for their lives. But amid the rubble and dust, heroes appeared as neighbour [...]
His air-supply cord severed, commercial diver Chris Lemons had minutes to live.
The patient was in a coma – all the doctors said so. The only one who disagreed? The patient.
On January 11, 2007, award-winning adventurer Andrew McAuley bade an emotional farewell to his wife and toddler and set off on an epic journey. His aim: to paddle a sea kayak, solo, 1600km across [...]
The free-falling sky diver slammed into a fellow jumper at 2800 metres and was knocked unconscious. Limp as a rag doll, parachute unopened, she plummeted towards the earth. Only a miracle could [...]
Despite their extraordinary wilderness skills, this Finnish couple was in grave danger.
Long after experts abandoned hope, a brave band of rescuers refused to give up the hunt for the earthquake's survivors.
Below the trapped miners was an empty lift shaft, 600 metres deep. Only the strength of one man might save them.
Mother Nature still holds the record for creating Earth's most awful blast.
The child dangled precariously ten metres in the air... slowly slipping from her mother's grasp.
A traffic accident left a young photographer badly injured on the road where he would have died, until finally a car pulled up.
The avalance ripped the Italian hotel from its foundation and reduced it to rubble. How could anyone inside have survived?
Her climbing rope had malfunctioned. Now, 275 metres above the floor of Wyoming’s Death Canyon, Lauren McLean clung to a ledge barely wide enough to support her broken body. And a storm was [...]
On a run in the Rocky Mountains, the author's dog, Merle, fell more than 240 metres, injured beyond hope. But he wasn't done yet.
