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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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 ...

Against The Odds episodes:

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 ...
06.05.2023 Listen Now: Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried From Wondery and Bloomberg, the makers of The Shrink Next Door, comes a new story of incredible wealth, betrayal, and what happens when “doing good” goes really, really bad. When nerdy gamer Sam Bankman-Fried rocketed to fame as the world’s ...
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 ...
03.14.2023 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, ...
12.06.2022 Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping \| Buried Alive \| 2 The kidnapped children and their bus driver are trapped underground in the back of a moving truck, and they’re running out of food and water. They decide the only way out is to dig their way to the surface. Meanwhile, ...
11.29.2022 Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping \| Vanished \| 1 In the summer of 1976, three masked gunmen hijack a school bus full of children in rural Chowchilla, California. The twenty-six kids and their bus driver are driven to a quarry and buried alive. Back in town, no one has ...
11.22.2022 Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus \| The Final Dive \| 3 Swede Momsen’s diving bell finally makes contact with the sailors trapped inside the USS Squalus. But bad weather makes for a harrowing mission. And just when rescuers are about to bring the last of the crew to safety, the bell ...
11.15.2022 Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus \| Trapped \| 2 With the USS Squalus trapped at the bottom of the ocean, the Navy mounted an all-out rescue effort to save its crew before they ran out of breathable air. They called upon Charles “Swede” Momsen, an engineer who’d been pushing ...
11.08.2022 Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus \| Into the Deep \| 1 On the morning of May 23, 1939, a state-of-the-art U.S. Navy’s submarine, the USS Squalus, was doing a routine test dive when something went terribly wrong. The sub began flooding, and plunged 240 feet down to the bottom of the ...
11.01.2022 Wildfire in Paradise \| Evacuating Paradise with Beth Bowersox and Daniel Swain \| 6 CalFire dispatcher Beth Bowersox was on duty the morning the Camp Fire ignited. She joins Host Cassie De Pecol to share what it was like behind the scenes as a first responder, and her decision to evacuate all of her ...
10.25.2022 Wildfire in Paradise \| Paradise Lost with Lizzie Johnson \| 5 By the time it was contained in late November 2018, the Camp Fire had become the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. Journalist Lizzie Johnson spent two years reporting on the fire and its aftermath for The San ...
10.18.2022 Wildfire in Paradise \| Containment \| 4 By mid-afternoon of November 8, 2018, the Camp Fire has largely moved through Paradise. Families separated by the fire are desperate to find each other and know who survived — and if they’ll be able to return to their homes. ...
10.11.2022 Wildfire in Paradise \| Engulfed \| 3 As the fire rages and traffic on the main roads out of Paradise comes to a standstill, firefighters realize evacuation is no longer a viable option. First responders race to locate places of refuge within the town, where trapped civilians ...
10.04.2022 Wildfire in Paradise \| Bottleneck \| 2 As a fast-moving wildfire closes in on their town, Paradise residents move to evacuate as quickly as possible. But not everyone knows about the seriousness of the fire. Electronic evacuation alerts from Cal Fire aren’t getting through to the whole ...
09.27.2022 Wildfire in Paradise \| Ignition \| 1 In the early morning of November 8, 2018, a faulty electrical line sparked a fire in the woods of Butte County, California. Spurred on by high winds and dry brush from extreme drought, the fire spread faster than anyone had ...
09.20.2022 Crash in a Volcano \| Thank You, Madam Pele with Chris Duddy \| 3 In 1992, Christopher Duddy was a young Hollywood cameraman assigned to shoot footage of an active volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island. Then his helicopter crashed inside the volcano near a pool of molten lava, and his life would never be ...
09.13.2022 Crash in a Volcano \| Climbing Out \| 2 Rescue workers search for the camera crew trapped inside Kilauea’s Pu’u O’o crater, but they’re forced to abandon their efforts when an incoming storm makes conditions too hazardous. Cameramen Chris Duddy and Mike Benson struggle to survive a night inside ...
09.06.2022 Crash in a Volcano \| Into the Crater \| 1 In November 1992, a Hollywood camera crew soars above Hawaii’s Kīlauea, one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes, to capture footage for a major feature film. But suddenly their helicopter’s engine cuts out, and they plunge into an active crater. ...
08.30.2022 Encore: Thai Cave Rescue \| On the Set of Thirteen Lives with Rick Stanton \| 5 The story of the Thai cave rescue captivated the world – spawning numerous books, documentaries, and most recently, the Hollywood film, Thirteen Lives, directed by Ron Howard. On today’s episode, British rescue diver Rick Stanton returns to discuss his time ...
08.23.2022 Encore: Thai Cave Rescue \| Chamber Nine \| 4 Rescuers locate the 12 boys and their soccer coach deep inside the Tham Luang, but now they have another problem. How will they get them all out? An international team frantically looks for solutions, but no one can agree on ...
08.16.2022 Encore: Thai Cave Rescue \| Risk \| 3 Rescuers locate the 12 boys and their soccer coach deep inside the Tham Luang, but now they have another problem. How will they get them all out? An international team frantically looks for solutions, but no one can agree on ...
08.09.2022 Encore: Thai Cave Rescue \| Chaos \| 2 The boys on the soccer team struggle to stay alive inside the cave. Expert divers from around the world arrive in Thailand to find a media circus and a slow-moving bureaucracy. All of them must work against harrowing conditions and ...
08.02.2022 Encore: Thai Cave Rescue \| Lost \| 1 In 2018, twelve young soccer players and their coach are exploring a six-mile caving system in Thailand when they are trapped inside by heavy rains. Local authorities attempt to rescue them. But it’s going to take an international effort by ...
06.28.2022 Trapped on Mount Hood \| Close Calls and Epic Adventures with Peter Stark \| 6 On this special episode, survival writer Peter Stark joins host Mike Corey for a wide-spanning conversation about adventure – why we’re drawn to it and how it can push us to the edge. They’ll discuss Stark’s Outside Magazine article Frozen ...
06.21.2022 Trapped on Mount Hood \| Aftermath with Ric Conrad \| 5 The Mount Hood tragedy remains the second deadliest mountaineering accident in North American history. Growing up in Oregon, Ric Conrad remembers following the developments on the six o’clock news when he was just a few years older than some of ...
06.14.2022 Trapped on Mount Hood \| Discovery \| 4 As the search for the missing climbers enters its second day, rescuers redouble their efforts to find the lost students and their adult guides. But the vastness of the search area presents major challenges. Rescue workers and parents face the ...
06.07.2022 Trapped on Mount Hood \| Search and Rescue \| 3 Morning provides no relief for the Oregon Episcopal School climbers trapped without food or water high on Mount Hood. The storm that forced them to take shelter in a snow cave shows no signs of letting up. Two of the ...
05.31.2022 Trapped on Mount Hood \| Considered Lost \| 2 With night falling, the student climbers and their adult chaperones must take refuge in a cramped, frigid, and hastily dug snow cave. Their leader, Father Tom Goman, begins to succumb to hypothermia. Meanwhile, search and rescue teams prepare to deploy. ...
05.24.2022 Trapped on Mount Hood \| Whiteout \| 1 In May 1986, a group of high school students and faculty embarked on a journey to the top of Mount Hood, Oregon's tallest mountain. The climb was part of an annual wilderness program, and was usually uneventful. But during this ...
05.17.2022 Meltdown at Fukushima \| Ghost Towns with NPR’s Kat Lonsdorf \| 5 It’s been more than decade since the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. But the region is still grappling with the environmental, economic and emotional legacy of the disaster. Evacuations have lifted – but many people still haven’t ...

Older episodes

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 ...
06.05.2023 Listen Now: Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried From Wondery and Bloomberg, the makers of The Shrink Next Door, comes a new story of incredible wealth, betrayal, and what happens when “doing good” goes really, really bad. When nerdy gamer Sam Bankman-Fried rocketed to fame as the world’s ...
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 ...
03.14.2023 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, ...
12.06.2022 Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping \| Buried Alive \| 2 The kidnapped children and their bus driver are trapped underground in the back of a moving truck, and they’re running out of food and water. They decide the only way out is to dig their way to the surface. Meanwhile, ...
11.29.2022 Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping \| Vanished \| 1 In the summer of 1976, three masked gunmen hijack a school bus full of children in rural Chowchilla, California. The twenty-six kids and their bus driver are driven to a quarry and buried alive. Back in town, no one has ...
11.22.2022 Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus \| The Final Dive \| 3 Swede Momsen’s diving bell finally makes contact with the sailors trapped inside the USS Squalus. But bad weather makes for a harrowing mission. And just when rescuers are about to bring the last of the crew to safety, the bell ...
11.15.2022 Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus \| Trapped \| 2 With the USS Squalus trapped at the bottom of the ocean, the Navy mounted an all-out rescue effort to save its crew before they ran out of breathable air. They called upon Charles “Swede” Momsen, an engineer who’d been pushing ...
11.08.2022 Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus \| Into the Deep \| 1 On the morning of May 23, 1939, a state-of-the-art U.S. Navy’s submarine, the USS Squalus, was doing a routine test dive when something went terribly wrong. The sub began flooding, and plunged 240 feet down to the bottom of the ...
11.01.2022 Wildfire in Paradise \| Evacuating Paradise with Beth Bowersox and Daniel Swain \| 6 CalFire dispatcher Beth Bowersox was on duty the morning the Camp Fire ignited. She joins Host Cassie De Pecol to share what it was like behind the scenes as a first responder, and her decision to evacuate all of her ...
10.25.2022 Wildfire in Paradise \| Paradise Lost with Lizzie Johnson \| 5 By the time it was contained in late November 2018, the Camp Fire had become the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. Journalist Lizzie Johnson spent two years reporting on the fire and its aftermath for The San ...
10.18.2022 Wildfire in Paradise \| Containment \| 4 By mid-afternoon of November 8, 2018, the Camp Fire has largely moved through Paradise. Families separated by the fire are desperate to find each other and know who survived — and if they’ll be able to return to their homes. ...
10.11.2022 Wildfire in Paradise \| Engulfed \| 3 As the fire rages and traffic on the main roads out of Paradise comes to a standstill, firefighters realize evacuation is no longer a viable option. First responders race to locate places of refuge within the town, where trapped civilians ...
10.04.2022 Wildfire in Paradise \| Bottleneck \| 2 As a fast-moving wildfire closes in on their town, Paradise residents move to evacuate as quickly as possible. But not everyone knows about the seriousness of the fire. Electronic evacuation alerts from Cal Fire aren’t getting through to the whole ...
09.27.2022 Wildfire in Paradise \| Ignition \| 1 In the early morning of November 8, 2018, a faulty electrical line sparked a fire in the woods of Butte County, California. Spurred on by high winds and dry brush from extreme drought, the fire spread faster than anyone had ...
09.20.2022 Crash in a Volcano \| Thank You, Madam Pele with Chris Duddy \| 3 In 1992, Christopher Duddy was a young Hollywood cameraman assigned to shoot footage of an active volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island. Then his helicopter crashed inside the volcano near a pool of molten lava, and his life would never be ...
09.13.2022 Crash in a Volcano \| Climbing Out \| 2 Rescue workers search for the camera crew trapped inside Kilauea’s Pu’u O’o crater, but they’re forced to abandon their efforts when an incoming storm makes conditions too hazardous. Cameramen Chris Duddy and Mike Benson struggle to survive a night inside ...
09.06.2022 Crash in a Volcano \| Into the Crater \| 1 In November 1992, a Hollywood camera crew soars above Hawaii’s Kīlauea, one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes, to capture footage for a major feature film. But suddenly their helicopter’s engine cuts out, and they plunge into an active crater. ...
08.30.2022 Encore: Thai Cave Rescue \| On the Set of Thirteen Lives with Rick Stanton \| 5 The story of the Thai cave rescue captivated the world – spawning numerous books, documentaries, and most recently, the Hollywood film, Thirteen Lives, directed by Ron Howard. On today’s episode, British rescue diver Rick Stanton returns to discuss his time ...
08.23.2022 Encore: Thai Cave Rescue \| Chamber Nine \| 4 Rescuers locate the 12 boys and their soccer coach deep inside the Tham Luang, but now they have another problem. How will they get them all out? An international team frantically looks for solutions, but no one can agree on ...
08.16.2022 Encore: Thai Cave Rescue \| Risk \| 3 Rescuers locate the 12 boys and their soccer coach deep inside the Tham Luang, but now they have another problem. How will they get them all out? An international team frantically looks for solutions, but no one can agree on ...
08.09.2022 Encore: Thai Cave Rescue \| Chaos \| 2 The boys on the soccer team struggle to stay alive inside the cave. Expert divers from around the world arrive in Thailand to find a media circus and a slow-moving bureaucracy. All of them must work against harrowing conditions and ...
08.02.2022 Encore: Thai Cave Rescue \| Lost \| 1 In 2018, twelve young soccer players and their coach are exploring a six-mile caving system in Thailand when they are trapped inside by heavy rains. Local authorities attempt to rescue them. But it’s going to take an international effort by ...
06.28.2022 Trapped on Mount Hood \| Close Calls and Epic Adventures with Peter Stark \| 6 On this special episode, survival writer Peter Stark joins host Mike Corey for a wide-spanning conversation about adventure – why we’re drawn to it and how it can push us to the edge. They’ll discuss Stark’s Outside Magazine article Frozen ...
06.21.2022 Trapped on Mount Hood \| Aftermath with Ric Conrad \| 5 The Mount Hood tragedy remains the second deadliest mountaineering accident in North American history. Growing up in Oregon, Ric Conrad remembers following the developments on the six o’clock news when he was just a few years older than some of ...
06.14.2022 Trapped on Mount Hood \| Discovery \| 4 As the search for the missing climbers enters its second day, rescuers redouble their efforts to find the lost students and their adult guides. But the vastness of the search area presents major challenges. Rescue workers and parents face the ...
06.07.2022 Trapped on Mount Hood \| Search and Rescue \| 3 Morning provides no relief for the Oregon Episcopal School climbers trapped without food or water high on Mount Hood. The storm that forced them to take shelter in a snow cave shows no signs of letting up. Two of the ...
05.31.2022 Trapped on Mount Hood \| Considered Lost \| 2 With night falling, the student climbers and their adult chaperones must take refuge in a cramped, frigid, and hastily dug snow cave. Their leader, Father Tom Goman, begins to succumb to hypothermia. Meanwhile, search and rescue teams prepare to deploy. ...
05.24.2022 Trapped on Mount Hood \| Whiteout \| 1 In May 1986, a group of high school students and faculty embarked on a journey to the top of Mount Hood, Oregon's tallest mountain. The climb was part of an annual wilderness program, and was usually uneventful. But during this ...
05.17.2022 Meltdown at Fukushima \| Ghost Towns with NPR’s Kat Lonsdorf \| 5 It’s been more than decade since the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. But the region is still grappling with the environmental, economic and emotional legacy of the disaster. Evacuations have lifted – but many people still haven’t ...

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

Listen Now: Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried

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

Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping | Buried Alive | 2

Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping | Vanished | 1

Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus | The Final Dive | 3

Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus | Trapped | 2

Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus | Into the Deep | 1

Wildfire in Paradise | Evacuating Paradise with Beth Bowersox and Daniel Swain | 6

Wildfire in Paradise | Paradise Lost with Lizzie Johnson | 5

Wildfire in Paradise | Containment | 4

Wildfire in Paradise | Engulfed | 3

Wildfire in Paradise | Bottleneck | 2

Wildfire in Paradise | Ignition | 1

Crash in a Volcano | Thank You, Madam Pele with Chris Duddy | 3

Crash in a Volcano | Climbing Out | 2

Crash in a Volcano | Into the Crater | 1

Encore: Thai Cave Rescue | On the Set of Thirteen Lives with Rick Stanton | 5

Encore: Thai Cave Rescue | Chamber Nine | 4

Encore: Thai Cave Rescue | Risk | 3

Encore: Thai Cave Rescue | Chaos | 2

Encore: Thai Cave Rescue | Lost | 1

Trapped on Mount Hood | Close Calls and Epic Adventures with Peter Stark | 6

Trapped on Mount Hood | Aftermath with Ric Conrad | 5

Trapped on Mount Hood | Discovery | 4

Trapped on Mount Hood | Search and Rescue | 3

Trapped on Mount Hood | Considered Lost | 2

Trapped on Mount Hood | Whiteout | 1

Meltdown at Fukushima | Ghost Towns with NPR’s Kat Lonsdorf | 5