The CRUX: True Survival Stories

On Aug 5th 2010, miners were working hard at the San Jose Copper-Gold Mine in Chile, a mine that is located in the Atacama Desert, 45 km/28 miles North of the capitol Copiapo in Northern Chile. The m…

Takeyasu was 33 in 1990 when he summited the sheer rock face of Trango Tower In Pakistan, also called the Nameless Tower. Instead of belaying down the tower like most climbers would, Takeyasu decided…

The Evans family dreamed of moving to Alaska, and were able to make this a reality when parents Donald and Rosemarie got a teaching jobs in a remote village in 2011. They were traveling from McGrath …

Deborah was a talented young sailer with a lot of experience who was hired to transport a yacht from Maine to Florida in the fall of 1981. Things were briefly going well until the second day when the…

Earnest Shackleton was a well known explorer in the early 1900's. In 1914 he embarked on a mission to Antarctica with a crew of 28 men. Little did they know that they would end up trapped in Arctic i…

Yossi Ghinsberg was just 21 when he set off to experience the Amazon in December of 1981. While traveling in Bolivia, a strange and enticing man touted stories of adventure and lore, and promised to…

Nicholas Alkemade was part of the RAF when he had to face a terrible decision; to go down with a flaming aircraft or to jump to his certain death below.

The Wild Boars football team went into the Tham Luang cave to do a little exploring on Saturday, June 23, 2018. The team, a group of 12 boys ages 11-16 and their 25 yo coach got trapped after an unex…

Tyson Steele was homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness, snowed in.. really… miles from his closest neighbor… the closest road 45 miles away, without a snowmobile/snowmachine. He made the mistake of …

Paul Templer was an experienced military man, who once discharged from the military was a guide on the Zambezi river in Zimbabwe. He was taking a group of tourists down the river in a canoe with some…

Ricky Megee was driving to Port Hedland in the Northern Territory of Australia when he stopped to help some fellow travelers who had run out of petrol. Shortly there after, he awoke in a shallow grav…

Ed and Kelly Moellmer are a father daughter duo that set off for a one day backcountry ski in the Cabinet Mountains. All was well until Ed took a wrong turn/step, separating them and putting both the…

This week we have two short stories to tell. The fist story highlights the Higgen's family, who got stuck in their family vehicle turned snow cave on the way to a New Mexico ski trip. The second stor…

Jose Alvarenga is an avid and experienced fisherman that set out from the fishing village of Costa Azul, of the coast of Chiapas, Mexico on November 2012 with 23 yo Ezequiel Cordoba for a 30 hour exc…

A woman's drive to visit her sister takes a sharp turn off a large cliff.

This tough cookie held it together twice when he was attacked by the same bear on the same day.

A young man, trapped inside a boat 100 feet under water struggles to maintain a positive mental outlook as he waits submerged in water for 60+ hours.

A teenage girl suffers an unanticipated terror while hitchhiking when she is picked up by a predator.

Juliane was only 17 when she was ejected from a plane mid-flight to the jungle floor below. Never would her background prove to be more useful.