Against The Odds

By Wondery

Society & Culture History

What's Against The Odds about?

Humans are resilient. In our toughest moments, we will fight, we will struggle, and we will triumph...often against the odds.  In this immersive series from Wondery, host-adventurers Mike Corey and Cassie De Pecol will share thrilling stories of survival. From the daring rescue of a soccer team trapped in an underwater cave in Thailand, to a woman taken hostage by Somali pirates, these stories made headlines around the world. AGAINST THE ODDS will make you feel as though you’re living these experiences with our heroes as they push themselves to their limits. New episodes come out every Tuesday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. Listen ad-free on Wondery+ or on Amazon Music with a Prime membership or Amazon Music Unlimited subscription.

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Alone in the Alaska Wildern...

11.28.2023

Pilot Leon Crane has spent a week stranded in the Alaska backcountry after his plane crashed, and is in desperate need of food. He’s now considered “missing in action” by the army, with no rescue coming. His only option is ...

Against The Odds episodes:

11.28.2023 Alone in the Alaska Wilderness \| Cabin Fever \| 2 Pilot Leon Crane has spent a week stranded in the Alaska backcountry after his plane crashed, and is in desperate need of food. He’s now considered “missing in action” by the army, with no rescue coming. His only option is ...
11.27.2023 Listen Now: 'Tis The Grinch Holiday Talk Show Cuddly as a cactus and charming as an eel, he’s your new favorite snarky talk show host. Join The Grinch (and his faithful dog Max) each week as he rants against Christmas cheer and roasts celebrity guests like chestnuts on ...
11.21.2023 Alone in the Alaska Wilderness \| Survival Mode \| 1 It’s December 1943 and First Lieutenant Leon Crane and his crewmates board the Iceberg Inez, a B-24 bomber, for a test run. But when the plane runs into trouble and crashes, Crane finds himself alone in a remote stretch of ...
11.17.2023 Listen Now: Legacy Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived – and ask whether they have the rep they deserve. Should Nina Simone’s role in the civil rights ...
11.14.2023 Lost in the Rainforest \| A Conversation with Yossi Ghinsberg \| 4 Today, Yossi Ghinsberg joins host Cassie De Pecol to discuss how he survived for three weeks alone in the Bolivian Amazon. Yossi reflects on the lessons he learned from the experience, and shares the story of his return to the ...
11.07.2023 Lost in the Rainforest \| Man of Action \| 3 Kevin Gale desperately tries to organize a search party for Yossi Ghinsberg, who is still lost in the Bolivian rainforest. As days turn to weeks, Kevin worries he'll never see his friend alive again. Meanwhile, malnourished and injured, Yossi is ...
10.31.2023 Lost in the Rainforest \| Swept Away \| 2 After splitting off from their group, Yossi Ghinsberg and Kevin Gale hope to complete their journey through the Bolivian rainforest by rafting down the Tuichi River. But they quickly discover they're no match for the dangerous rapids. Soon they get ...
10.24.2023 Lost in the Rainforest \| Into the Jungle \| 1 It’s 1981 and 22-year-old Yossi Ghinsberg is wrapping up a backpacking trip through South America. In La Paz, Bolivia, he and two friends meet an older Austrian expat, who entices them to join him on a trek into an uncharted ...
10.17.2023 Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster \| One Foot in the Black \| 5 Kyle Dickman remembers the exact moment he learned about the fate of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. As a former firefighter and hotshot himself, the news hit him hard. He reported on the tragedy for Outside magazine, then spent the next ...
10.10.2023 Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster \| Radio Silence \| 4 Fueled by 50-mile-an-hour winds, the Yarnell Hill Fire rages out of control. Fire officials have no choice but to evacuate all residents and firefighting crews in its path. But there’s still one crew out there: the Granite Mountain Hotshots. They ...
10.03.2023 Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster \| Shifting Winds \| 3 When the Yarnell Hill Fire abruptly changes direction, hotshot Brendan McDonough has to abandon his lookout post and run for his life. Meanwhile, the rest of his crew, the Granite Mountain Hotshots, are safe on a ridge, in what firefighters ...
09.26.2023 Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster \| Into the Breach \| 2 The Granite Mountain Hotshots arrive in Yarnell to help fight what is now the number-one fire priority in all of Arizona. But crew chief Eric Marsh is frustrated when his guys are assigned to create fire breaks at the back ...
09.19.2023 Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster \| The Spark \| 1 On June 28th, 2013, lightning sparks a wildfire near the town of Yarnell in central Arizona. Fueled by dry conditions, the fire quickly spreads. To contain the blaze, local officials call in elite crews of firefighters known as hotshots. One ...
09.12.2023 Hurricane Katrina \| Katrina Babies with Filmmaker Edward Buckles Jr. \| 5 As Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans, 13-year-old Edward Buckles, Jr. piled into a car with his family and evacuated. They drove for hours on clogged roads, and slept on a shelter floor that night. When Edward woke up the next ...
09.05.2023 Hurricane Katrina \| We Were Here \| 4 At long last, the government’s rescue effort kicks into high gear and buses arrive to evacuate people from New Orleans. But it’s too late for many residents, who died in their homes waiting to be rescued. Thousands of people’s lives ...
08.29.2023 Hurricane Katrina \| Beyond Critical \| 3 Days after Hurricane Katrina floods their city, residents of New Orleans become increasingly desperate, as the government bungles the rescue effort. Using doors and other items to make improvised rafts, people make their way from their flooded homes to the ...
08.22.2023 Hurricane Katrina \| Stranded \| 2 Officials learn that the storm surge from Katrina has breached New Orleans’s levees, allowing water to pour into the city. Soon, 80 percent of New Orleans is underwater. Many residents become trapped in their homes, and are forced to climb ...
08.15.2023 Hurricane Katrina \| Code Gray \| 1 It’s late August 2005, and the city of New Orleans makes preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina. But after decades of hurricanes missing the city, many residents are confident they can ride out the storm. By the time Mayor ...
08.08.2023 Apollo 13 \| A Flight Director Remembers \| 6 Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert went through the ordeal of their lives on the Apollo 13 Mission. But the people manning Houston’s Mission Control faced their own challenges as they figured out how to bring the astronauts home ...
08.01.2023 Apollo 13 \| Splashdown \| 5 Six days into their mission, the Apollo 13 astronauts have been working under immense pressure and on very little sleep. Tempers grow short as they battle with Mission Control in Houston over what steps to take for their biggest challenge ...
07.25.2023 Apollo 13 \| 43 Amps \| 4 The three astronauts on the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft round the Moon and finally begin the return leg of their journey toward Earth. But their troubles are far from over. They still have to strictly ration the amount of power ...
07.18.2023 Apollo 13 \| Tiger Team \| 3 The three astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft have retreated into the cramped lunar module, the only part of the spacecraft that’s still fully functioning. Back on Earth, NASA’s Mission Control sets up an elite team of engineers—the Tiger Team—to ...
07.11.2023 Apollo 13 \| Slingshot \| 2 After an explosion cripples the Apollo 13 spacecraft, NASA’s Mission Control in Houston scrambles to come up with a plan to save the crew. Step one involves stabilizing Apollo 13 to preserve as much precious air, water, and power as ...
07.04.2023 Apollo 13 \| "Houston, We’ve Had a Problem." \| 1 On April 11th, 1970, NASA launched Apollo 13, its third manned mission to the Moon. But two days into its journey, an explosion wiped out a major source of oxygen, limiting the ship’s water and power supplies. The three astronauts ...
06.27.2023 Stranded in Joshua Tree \| 1 On May 22, 2018, Claire Nelson set out on what she thought would be a four-hour hike in Southern California’s Joshua Tree National Park. An experienced hiker, Claire packed plenty of water and followed an established trail in a park ...
06.20.2023 Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes \| The Climb \| 4 In a final attempt to escape the Andes, Nando and Roberto have headed east to pursue safety. The men face a difficult journey as the weather takes a turn for the worst, and their food supply dwindles. Back at the ...
06.13.2023 Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes \| The Choice \| 3 After escaping an avalanche that killed eight more passengers, the survivors of the Fairchild are starting to lose all hope. Many in the group are on death’s door. Time is running out. They can’t wait any longer for rescue. They ...
06.06.2023 Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes \| The Cutting \| 2 The remaining survivors of the Fairchild crash are starting to lose hope that rescuers will arrive after ten days of inactivity. Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa understand their only chance at survival is to send a small team through the ...
05.30.2023 Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes \| The Crash \| 1 In October 1972, an Uruguayan rugby team traveling to their next match in Santiago, Chile, crashes into the Andes Mountains after their plane strikes a glacier. Stranded on the snow-covered side of a mountain, they will have to do the ...
05.23.2023 Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue \| "When the Going Gets Tough..." \| 5 Of the more than 500 Prinsendam passengers and crew, every one of them was eventually rescued and brought to safety. Today, two of those survivors, John and Malory Graham, join host Mike Corey to share their experience of the fire ...
05.16.2023 Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue \| The Last Lifeboat \| 4 Rescue workers begin the painstakingly slow process of airlifting cruise ship evacuees one by one from their lifeboats. But a typhoon has turned the Gulf of Alaska into a raging sea, and as they await rescue, many of the passengers ...
05.09.2023 Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue \| Adrift \| 3 With the fire aboard Prinsendam now burning out of control, the captain gives the order to abandon ship. Passengers, some dressed only in pajamas and nightgowns, scramble into wooden lifeboats, which are lowered into the dark and frigid waters of ...
05.02.2023 Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue \| Dead in the Water \| 2 As crew members aboard Prinsendam work to contain the fire, passengers shiver on the decks in the cold night air. The mood is mostly festive; everyone expects that the fire will be extinguished soon. But when the blaze spreads to ...
04.25.2023 Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue \| The Blaze \| 1 In October of 1980, the luxury cruise ship Prinsendam set sail from Vancouver with more than 300 passengers aboard, many of whom were elderly. But just after midnight on the cruise’s fourth day, in the Gulf of Alaska, a fire ...
04.18.2023 Amelia Earhart: Across the Atlantic \| 100th Episode, Amelia’s Final Flight \| 3 It’s officially Against the Odds’ 100th episode! To celebrate the milestone, hosts Cassie De Pecol and Mike Corey sit down to reminisce about their favorite seasons, swap stories of their own adventures, and discuss the pioneers who inspire them. Later, ...
04.11.2023 Amelia Earhart: Across the Atlantic \| Solo \| 2 By 1929, Amelia Earhart was famous for her groundbreaking flight across the Atlantic, with pilot Bill Stultz and mechanic Slim Gordon. Now, she seemed to be living the perfect life: she was a rich and famous celebrity and could fly ...
04.04.2023 Amelia Earhart: Across the Atlantic \| The Race \| 1 In April 1928, a social worker named Amelia Earhart received a phone call that would alter the course of her life. She was offered the chance to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. Charles Lindbergh had completed ...
03.28.2023 Alaska Bear Attack \| Into The Wilds with Caroline Van Hemert \| 3 Bear. Running. Toward me. Writer and wildlife biologist Caroline Van Hemert encountered only one dangerous bear on her four-thousand-mile trip from Washington to Alaska. She survived to write about it in The Sun is A Compass: My 4,000-Mile Journey into ...
03.21.2023 Alaska Bear Attack \| Three Long Hours \| 2 After Bart Pieciul is mauled by a bear in the Alaska wilderness, his friends have to use all of their outdoor knowledge to keep him alive. The three men are stranded in the mountains for hours, waiting for a Coast ...
03.13.2023 Alaska Bear Attack \| In Defense of Life and Property \| 1 The residents of Haines, Alaska are used to living alongside bears. The region surrounding their small town has one of the densest bear populations in the world. But as climate change curtails the bears’ natural food sources, encounters between bears ...
03.07.2023 Himalayan Spy Mission \| Back to the Mountains with Pete Takeda \| 4 When outdoor writer Pete Takeda first heard the story of a covert CIA operation in the Himalayas, he couldn’t believe it. So he decided to investigate. His curiosity led him on an adventure to the Himalayas in search of answers. ...
02.28.2023 Himalayan Spy Mission \| The Dome \| 3 Two years have passed since the team of Indian and American elite climbers lost a nuclear-powered spying device in the Himalayas. Now, as China continues to test its nuclear weapons, the climbing team is given one last chance to complete ...
02.21.2023 Himalayan Spy Mission \| Retrieval \| 2 Winter storms arrived early on the Himalayan peak Nanda Devi, forcing the team of American and Indian climbers to retreat down the mountain and abandon the nuclear-powered spying device. Now in the spring of 1966, the team has to go ...
02.14.2023 Himalayan Spy Mission \| The Device \| 1 In 1965, with Cold War tensions escalating, the CIA and India’s Intelligence Bureau joined forces to spy on China’s budding nuclear program. Satellites and spy planes at the time were unreliable, so the agencies hatched an unusual plan: place a ...
02.07.2023 Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition \| Lost Cities with Mike Heckenberger \| 5 Searching for lost cities in the Amazon sounds like something out of a Hollywood script – unless you’re University of Florida anthropologist Mike Heckenberger. He’s been visiting the Amazon for three decades, working with local tribes and uncovering a network ...
01.31.2023 Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition \| River's End \| 4 After weeks on the River of Doubt, Theodore Roosevelt’s expedition is on the verge of collapse. But hope emerges when they find clues that Brazilian frontiersmen may be living and working in the wilderness nearby. As Roosevelt’s health deteriorates, drastic ...
01.24.2023 Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition \| A Killer In Their Midst \| 3 Challenges mount as the expedition travels farther down the river. With the end of their journey nowhere in sight, hunger and disease take their toll on the men. Colonel Rondon wonders if members of an indigenous tribe are following them ...
01.17.2023 Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition \| River of Doubt \| 2 As Theodore Roosevelt’s expedition sets off down the River of Doubt, it doesn’t take long for the going to get rough. Their canoes are no match for the boiling rapids, forcing them to trek through an unforgiving jungle rife with ...
01.10.2023 Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition \| Headwaters \| 1 In 1913, former President Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a perilous expedition to explore one of the last unmapped rivers in the Amazon. Roosevelt was joined by his son Kermit, famed Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon, and a team of naturalists and ...
12.13.2022 Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping \| One Survivor’s Story \| 3 On the afternoon of July 15, 1976, nine-year-old Jennifer Brown Hyde and her older brother Jeff were returning home from a summer school trip to a local pool. On their way home, masked men with guns boarded their school bus, ...

Older episodes

11.28.2023 Alone in the Alaska Wilderness \| Cabin Fever \| 2 Pilot Leon Crane has spent a week stranded in the Alaska backcountry after his plane crashed, and is in desperate need of food. He’s now considered “missing in action” by the army, with no rescue coming. His only option is ...
11.27.2023 Listen Now: 'Tis The Grinch Holiday Talk Show Cuddly as a cactus and charming as an eel, he’s your new favorite snarky talk show host. Join The Grinch (and his faithful dog Max) each week as he rants against Christmas cheer and roasts celebrity guests like chestnuts on ...
11.21.2023 Alone in the Alaska Wilderness \| Survival Mode \| 1 It’s December 1943 and First Lieutenant Leon Crane and his crewmates board the Iceberg Inez, a B-24 bomber, for a test run. But when the plane runs into trouble and crashes, Crane finds himself alone in a remote stretch of ...
11.17.2023 Listen Now: Legacy Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived – and ask whether they have the rep they deserve. Should Nina Simone’s role in the civil rights ...
11.14.2023 Lost in the Rainforest \| A Conversation with Yossi Ghinsberg \| 4 Today, Yossi Ghinsberg joins host Cassie De Pecol to discuss how he survived for three weeks alone in the Bolivian Amazon. Yossi reflects on the lessons he learned from the experience, and shares the story of his return to the ...
11.07.2023 Lost in the Rainforest \| Man of Action \| 3 Kevin Gale desperately tries to organize a search party for Yossi Ghinsberg, who is still lost in the Bolivian rainforest. As days turn to weeks, Kevin worries he'll never see his friend alive again. Meanwhile, malnourished and injured, Yossi is ...
10.31.2023 Lost in the Rainforest \| Swept Away \| 2 After splitting off from their group, Yossi Ghinsberg and Kevin Gale hope to complete their journey through the Bolivian rainforest by rafting down the Tuichi River. But they quickly discover they're no match for the dangerous rapids. Soon they get ...
10.24.2023 Lost in the Rainforest \| Into the Jungle \| 1 It’s 1981 and 22-year-old Yossi Ghinsberg is wrapping up a backpacking trip through South America. In La Paz, Bolivia, he and two friends meet an older Austrian expat, who entices them to join him on a trek into an uncharted ...
10.17.2023 Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster \| One Foot in the Black \| 5 Kyle Dickman remembers the exact moment he learned about the fate of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. As a former firefighter and hotshot himself, the news hit him hard. He reported on the tragedy for Outside magazine, then spent the next ...
10.10.2023 Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster \| Radio Silence \| 4 Fueled by 50-mile-an-hour winds, the Yarnell Hill Fire rages out of control. Fire officials have no choice but to evacuate all residents and firefighting crews in its path. But there’s still one crew out there: the Granite Mountain Hotshots. They ...
10.03.2023 Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster \| Shifting Winds \| 3 When the Yarnell Hill Fire abruptly changes direction, hotshot Brendan McDonough has to abandon his lookout post and run for his life. Meanwhile, the rest of his crew, the Granite Mountain Hotshots, are safe on a ridge, in what firefighters ...
09.26.2023 Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster \| Into the Breach \| 2 The Granite Mountain Hotshots arrive in Yarnell to help fight what is now the number-one fire priority in all of Arizona. But crew chief Eric Marsh is frustrated when his guys are assigned to create fire breaks at the back ...
09.19.2023 Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster \| The Spark \| 1 On June 28th, 2013, lightning sparks a wildfire near the town of Yarnell in central Arizona. Fueled by dry conditions, the fire quickly spreads. To contain the blaze, local officials call in elite crews of firefighters known as hotshots. One ...
09.12.2023 Hurricane Katrina \| Katrina Babies with Filmmaker Edward Buckles Jr. \| 5 As Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans, 13-year-old Edward Buckles, Jr. piled into a car with his family and evacuated. They drove for hours on clogged roads, and slept on a shelter floor that night. When Edward woke up the next ...
09.05.2023 Hurricane Katrina \| We Were Here \| 4 At long last, the government’s rescue effort kicks into high gear and buses arrive to evacuate people from New Orleans. But it’s too late for many residents, who died in their homes waiting to be rescued. Thousands of people’s lives ...
08.29.2023 Hurricane Katrina \| Beyond Critical \| 3 Days after Hurricane Katrina floods their city, residents of New Orleans become increasingly desperate, as the government bungles the rescue effort. Using doors and other items to make improvised rafts, people make their way from their flooded homes to the ...
08.22.2023 Hurricane Katrina \| Stranded \| 2 Officials learn that the storm surge from Katrina has breached New Orleans’s levees, allowing water to pour into the city. Soon, 80 percent of New Orleans is underwater. Many residents become trapped in their homes, and are forced to climb ...
08.15.2023 Hurricane Katrina \| Code Gray \| 1 It’s late August 2005, and the city of New Orleans makes preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina. But after decades of hurricanes missing the city, many residents are confident they can ride out the storm. By the time Mayor ...
08.08.2023 Apollo 13 \| A Flight Director Remembers \| 6 Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert went through the ordeal of their lives on the Apollo 13 Mission. But the people manning Houston’s Mission Control faced their own challenges as they figured out how to bring the astronauts home ...
08.01.2023 Apollo 13 \| Splashdown \| 5 Six days into their mission, the Apollo 13 astronauts have been working under immense pressure and on very little sleep. Tempers grow short as they battle with Mission Control in Houston over what steps to take for their biggest challenge ...
07.25.2023 Apollo 13 \| 43 Amps \| 4 The three astronauts on the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft round the Moon and finally begin the return leg of their journey toward Earth. But their troubles are far from over. They still have to strictly ration the amount of power ...
07.18.2023 Apollo 13 \| Tiger Team \| 3 The three astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft have retreated into the cramped lunar module, the only part of the spacecraft that’s still fully functioning. Back on Earth, NASA’s Mission Control sets up an elite team of engineers—the Tiger Team—to ...
07.11.2023 Apollo 13 \| Slingshot \| 2 After an explosion cripples the Apollo 13 spacecraft, NASA’s Mission Control in Houston scrambles to come up with a plan to save the crew. Step one involves stabilizing Apollo 13 to preserve as much precious air, water, and power as ...
07.04.2023 Apollo 13 \| "Houston, We’ve Had a Problem." \| 1 On April 11th, 1970, NASA launched Apollo 13, its third manned mission to the Moon. But two days into its journey, an explosion wiped out a major source of oxygen, limiting the ship’s water and power supplies. The three astronauts ...
06.27.2023 Stranded in Joshua Tree \| 1 On May 22, 2018, Claire Nelson set out on what she thought would be a four-hour hike in Southern California’s Joshua Tree National Park. An experienced hiker, Claire packed plenty of water and followed an established trail in a park ...
06.20.2023 Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes \| The Climb \| 4 In a final attempt to escape the Andes, Nando and Roberto have headed east to pursue safety. The men face a difficult journey as the weather takes a turn for the worst, and their food supply dwindles. Back at the ...
06.13.2023 Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes \| The Choice \| 3 After escaping an avalanche that killed eight more passengers, the survivors of the Fairchild are starting to lose all hope. Many in the group are on death’s door. Time is running out. They can’t wait any longer for rescue. They ...
06.06.2023 Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes \| The Cutting \| 2 The remaining survivors of the Fairchild crash are starting to lose hope that rescuers will arrive after ten days of inactivity. Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa understand their only chance at survival is to send a small team through the ...
05.30.2023 Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes \| The Crash \| 1 In October 1972, an Uruguayan rugby team traveling to their next match in Santiago, Chile, crashes into the Andes Mountains after their plane strikes a glacier. Stranded on the snow-covered side of a mountain, they will have to do the ...
05.23.2023 Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue \| "When the Going Gets Tough..." \| 5 Of the more than 500 Prinsendam passengers and crew, every one of them was eventually rescued and brought to safety. Today, two of those survivors, John and Malory Graham, join host Mike Corey to share their experience of the fire ...
05.16.2023 Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue \| The Last Lifeboat \| 4 Rescue workers begin the painstakingly slow process of airlifting cruise ship evacuees one by one from their lifeboats. But a typhoon has turned the Gulf of Alaska into a raging sea, and as they await rescue, many of the passengers ...
05.09.2023 Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue \| Adrift \| 3 With the fire aboard Prinsendam now burning out of control, the captain gives the order to abandon ship. Passengers, some dressed only in pajamas and nightgowns, scramble into wooden lifeboats, which are lowered into the dark and frigid waters of ...
05.02.2023 Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue \| Dead in the Water \| 2 As crew members aboard Prinsendam work to contain the fire, passengers shiver on the decks in the cold night air. The mood is mostly festive; everyone expects that the fire will be extinguished soon. But when the blaze spreads to ...
04.25.2023 Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue \| The Blaze \| 1 In October of 1980, the luxury cruise ship Prinsendam set sail from Vancouver with more than 300 passengers aboard, many of whom were elderly. But just after midnight on the cruise’s fourth day, in the Gulf of Alaska, a fire ...
04.18.2023 Amelia Earhart: Across the Atlantic \| 100th Episode, Amelia’s Final Flight \| 3 It’s officially Against the Odds’ 100th episode! To celebrate the milestone, hosts Cassie De Pecol and Mike Corey sit down to reminisce about their favorite seasons, swap stories of their own adventures, and discuss the pioneers who inspire them. Later, ...
04.11.2023 Amelia Earhart: Across the Atlantic \| Solo \| 2 By 1929, Amelia Earhart was famous for her groundbreaking flight across the Atlantic, with pilot Bill Stultz and mechanic Slim Gordon. Now, she seemed to be living the perfect life: she was a rich and famous celebrity and could fly ...
04.04.2023 Amelia Earhart: Across the Atlantic \| The Race \| 1 In April 1928, a social worker named Amelia Earhart received a phone call that would alter the course of her life. She was offered the chance to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. Charles Lindbergh had completed ...
03.28.2023 Alaska Bear Attack \| Into The Wilds with Caroline Van Hemert \| 3 Bear. Running. Toward me. Writer and wildlife biologist Caroline Van Hemert encountered only one dangerous bear on her four-thousand-mile trip from Washington to Alaska. She survived to write about it in The Sun is A Compass: My 4,000-Mile Journey into ...
03.21.2023 Alaska Bear Attack \| Three Long Hours \| 2 After Bart Pieciul is mauled by a bear in the Alaska wilderness, his friends have to use all of their outdoor knowledge to keep him alive. The three men are stranded in the mountains for hours, waiting for a Coast ...
03.13.2023 Alaska Bear Attack \| In Defense of Life and Property \| 1 The residents of Haines, Alaska are used to living alongside bears. The region surrounding their small town has one of the densest bear populations in the world. But as climate change curtails the bears’ natural food sources, encounters between bears ...
03.07.2023 Himalayan Spy Mission \| Back to the Mountains with Pete Takeda \| 4 When outdoor writer Pete Takeda first heard the story of a covert CIA operation in the Himalayas, he couldn’t believe it. So he decided to investigate. His curiosity led him on an adventure to the Himalayas in search of answers. ...
02.28.2023 Himalayan Spy Mission \| The Dome \| 3 Two years have passed since the team of Indian and American elite climbers lost a nuclear-powered spying device in the Himalayas. Now, as China continues to test its nuclear weapons, the climbing team is given one last chance to complete ...
02.21.2023 Himalayan Spy Mission \| Retrieval \| 2 Winter storms arrived early on the Himalayan peak Nanda Devi, forcing the team of American and Indian climbers to retreat down the mountain and abandon the nuclear-powered spying device. Now in the spring of 1966, the team has to go ...
02.14.2023 Himalayan Spy Mission \| The Device \| 1 In 1965, with Cold War tensions escalating, the CIA and India’s Intelligence Bureau joined forces to spy on China’s budding nuclear program. Satellites and spy planes at the time were unreliable, so the agencies hatched an unusual plan: place a ...
02.07.2023 Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition \| Lost Cities with Mike Heckenberger \| 5 Searching for lost cities in the Amazon sounds like something out of a Hollywood script – unless you’re University of Florida anthropologist Mike Heckenberger. He’s been visiting the Amazon for three decades, working with local tribes and uncovering a network ...
01.31.2023 Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition \| River's End \| 4 After weeks on the River of Doubt, Theodore Roosevelt’s expedition is on the verge of collapse. But hope emerges when they find clues that Brazilian frontiersmen may be living and working in the wilderness nearby. As Roosevelt’s health deteriorates, drastic ...
01.24.2023 Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition \| A Killer In Their Midst \| 3 Challenges mount as the expedition travels farther down the river. With the end of their journey nowhere in sight, hunger and disease take their toll on the men. Colonel Rondon wonders if members of an indigenous tribe are following them ...
01.17.2023 Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition \| River of Doubt \| 2 As Theodore Roosevelt’s expedition sets off down the River of Doubt, it doesn’t take long for the going to get rough. Their canoes are no match for the boiling rapids, forcing them to trek through an unforgiving jungle rife with ...
01.10.2023 Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition \| Headwaters \| 1 In 1913, former President Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a perilous expedition to explore one of the last unmapped rivers in the Amazon. Roosevelt was joined by his son Kermit, famed Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon, and a team of naturalists and ...
12.13.2022 Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping \| One Survivor’s Story \| 3 On the afternoon of July 15, 1976, nine-year-old Jennifer Brown Hyde and her older brother Jeff were returning home from a summer school trip to a local pool. On their way home, masked men with guns boarded their school bus, ...

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Against The Odds episodes:

Alone in the Alaska Wilderness | Cabin Fever | 2

Listen Now: 'Tis The Grinch Holiday Talk Show

Alone in the Alaska Wilderness | Survival Mode | 1

Listen Now: Legacy

Lost in the Rainforest | A Conversation with Yossi Ghinsberg | 4

Lost in the Rainforest | Man of Action | 3

Lost in the Rainforest | Swept Away | 2

Lost in the Rainforest | Into the Jungle | 1

Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | One Foot in the Black | 5

Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | Radio Silence | 4

Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | Shifting Winds | 3

Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | Into the Breach | 2

Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | The Spark | 1

Hurricane Katrina | Katrina Babies with Filmmaker Edward Buckles Jr. | 5

Hurricane Katrina | We Were Here | 4

Hurricane Katrina | Beyond Critical | 3

Hurricane Katrina | Stranded | 2

Hurricane Katrina | Code Gray | 1

Apollo 13 | A Flight Director Remembers | 6

Apollo 13 | Splashdown | 5

Apollo 13 | 43 Amps | 4

Apollo 13 | Tiger Team | 3

Apollo 13 | Slingshot | 2

Apollo 13 | "Houston, We’ve Had a Problem." | 1

Stranded in Joshua Tree | 1

Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes | The Climb | 4

Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes | The Choice | 3

Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes | The Cutting | 2

Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes | The Crash | 1

Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue | "When the Going Gets Tough..." | 5

Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue | The Last Lifeboat | 4

Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue | Adrift | 3

Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue | Dead in the Water | 2

Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue | The Blaze | 1

Amelia Earhart: Across the Atlantic | 100th Episode, Amelia’s Final Flight | 3

Amelia Earhart: Across the Atlantic | Solo | 2

Amelia Earhart: Across the Atlantic | The Race | 1

Alaska Bear Attack | Into The Wilds with Caroline Van Hemert | 3

Alaska Bear Attack | Three Long Hours | 2

Alaska Bear Attack | In Defense of Life and Property | 1

Himalayan Spy Mission | Back to the Mountains with Pete Takeda | 4

Himalayan Spy Mission | The Dome | 3

Himalayan Spy Mission | Retrieval | 2

Himalayan Spy Mission | The Device | 1

Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition | Lost Cities with Mike Heckenberger | 5

Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition | River's End | 4

Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition | A Killer In Their Midst | 3

Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition | River of Doubt | 2

Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition | Headwaters | 1

Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping | One Survivor’s Story | 3