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Are you ready to face the wild? Extreme Survival throws you headfirst into the most unforgiving environments on Earth. This is where raw human instinct meets the brutal force of...
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Are you ready to face the wild? Extreme Survival throws you headfirst into the most unforgiving environments on Earth.
This is where raw human instinct meets the brutal force of nature. Extreme Survival explores true stories of survival, from harrowing wilderness escapes to mastering essential bushcraft skills. We break down the strategies, mental fortitude, and gear that make the difference between life and death.
New episodes drop daily, Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM. Each installment delivers gripping narratives, expert insights into survival techniques, and practical tips for wilderness preparedness that will sharpen your own capabilities.
Perfect for adventurers, preppers, and anyone fascinated by the limits of human resilience against extreme conditions. If you're looking to understand what it truly takes to endure, this podcast is for you.
Subscribe now and prepare for the unexpected.
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This is where raw human instinct meets the brutal force of nature. Extreme Survival explores true stories of survival, from harrowing wilderness escapes to mastering essential bushcraft skills. We break down the strategies, mental fortitude, and gear that make the difference between life and death.
New episodes drop daily, Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM. Each installment delivers gripping narratives, expert insights into survival techniques, and practical tips for wilderness preparedness that will sharpen your own capabilities.
Perfect for adventurers, preppers, and anyone fascinated by the limits of human resilience against extreme conditions. If you're looking to understand what it truly takes to endure, this podcast is for you.
Subscribe now and prepare for the unexpected.
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5 OCT 2026 · She Broke a Leg, Planted a Pole, Then Walked 1,100 Feet Alone
Fear and grit collide: a 53-year-old hydrological surveyor spent 53 hours alone after breaking her fibula, descended 1,100 vertical feet in the dark, and left a fluorescent trekking pole planted like a last-ditch signal - what single decision kept her alive?
In this episode, we follow the timeline of Sandra Tate’s solo outing, injury, improvised splinting, satellite messages, and the search that almost missed her - culminating in the small clue that redirected rescuers and changed everything. How did one pole, one ranger’s close reading, and one passerby converge to find her?
Person: Sandra Tate
Age: 53
Date: August 4-6, 2019
Location: Pellier Face, Cassidy Range
Event: Fibula fracture and 53 hours alone
- She signed the trailhead register on the evening of August 3, 2019, listing the southwest ridge but intended to take an unrecorded east shoulder variation.
- On August 4 she broke her left fibula on an uncharted east chute and built a splint using two tent stakes, a rain jacket sleeve, and cord.
- After sending an 11-word satellite message to her son Marcus, she descended approximately 1,100 vertical feet in the dark guided by running water.
- Rescue teams were staged at the trailhead the morning after but were looking in the wrong drainage because her filed route pointed elsewhere.
- At 7:15 a.m., utility lineman Tracy Powell spotted a fluorescent orange-basket trekking pole wedged vertically in a crack and called dispatch seven minutes later, which led searchers to her location. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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4 OCT 2026 · Held Out of the Water: How One Life Ring Saved a Woman's Life
Fear and helplessness: a thirty-inch white life ring found with its inside completely dry after eighteen hours became the single clue that led a kayaker to find a woman who had been in the water for nearly fifty hours-how could that ring have been held out of the water through a storm-crazed night, and who kept it dry? Searchers had been looking the wrong way while currents, a torn vessel, and eight people’s choices rewrote survival chances-what really happened between the Agnes M. rolling and Lori Snyder collapsing onto a gravel bar?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that unfolded from the Agnes M.'s morning departure through the storm, the casualty in the water, and the dry life ring that contradicted expectations, asking whether human action or environmental forces explain the ring’s condition and where that leads the search.
Person: Lori Snyder
Date: July 16, 2019
Location: Kellum Point (gravel bar)
Vessel: Agnes M., 54-foot fishing and charter vessel
Duration in water: nearly 50 hours
- The life ring was white polyethylene, 30 inches across, with orange paint spelling AGNES M.
- The life ring had spent 18 hours surrounded by storm-churned water yet its inside was completely dry.
- The Agnes M. left the dock at 4:40 AM and encountered 42-knot winds and 8-foot seas by 11:00 AM.
- Lori Snyder was 44 years old and held a US Coast Guard OUPV license.
- Tim Sorrento, a kayaker, found Lori at the waterline at 8:00 AM on Tuesday, July 16, 2019. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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3 OCT 2026 · Left the Car Seat on the Wall: Surviving 54 Hours in 112° Desert
Heat and isolation tighten into something almost unbearable: a mother and her four-year-old survive fifty-four hours in the Sonoran Desert with ground temperatures over 112°-and a child’s car seat left buckled seven feet up on a cinder block wall is the only clue that brought rescuers. How did a prepared, resourceful woman end up stranded for more than two days with a core temperature of 104.1° and no footprints beneath that seat?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the last clear phone call to the moment a paramedic found them, laying out the timeline, the small decisions, and the object that triggered the search. What choices and misfortunes produced a survival story that hinged on a single, strange image?
Person: Sarah Perry
Person: Mia (daughter)
Date: June 16, 2019
Location: Sonoran Desert, two miles northeast of a remote water tank
Status: Found alive with core temperature 104.1°F after 54 hours
- At 6:47 p.m. on June 16, 2019, paramedic Diane Cho found Sarah sitting against a boulder holding four-year-old Mia across her lap.
- The child’s car seat was centered on a cinder block wall seven feet high with the harness buckled and no footprints beneath it.
- The CR-V’s last recorded camera capture was at 8:04 a.m. at Peralta Road and the Goldfield Mountains corridor before the engine died around 9:20 a.m.
- Ground temperatures on the desert reached over 112°F during the fifty-four-hour period they were missing.
- Sarah had not slept for fifty-four hours and her recorded core temperature when found was 104.1°F. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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2 OCT 2026 · At six forty-one in the morning on Tuesday, May thirteenth, two thousand
A truck driver found an orange trowel handle jutting vertically from eleven feet of compacted avalanche debris with no footprints around it - and the official search had been suspended thirty-six hours earlier. How could a tool stand upright in settled ice as if planted from above, and what does that mean for the man last seen swept into a size-three avalanche?
In this episode, we tell the events on Carver Ridge from the moment Kevin Doyle signed the trail register to the suspension of the search, following the people, timings, and evidence that reframe what rescuers thought they knew. What actually happened in the hours after the slide, and where was Kevin when the teams stopped looking?
Person: Kevin Doyle
Date: May 10, 2014 (slide) and May 13, 2014 (discovery)
Location: North face of Carver Ridge / Kettle Flats trailhead
Status: Search suspended; discovery by Amy Bauer on May 13
Responder: Earl Chambers, SAR coordinator
- Kevin Doyle was buried at approximately 1:17 PM under 2.3 meters of avalanche debris after a slab release roughly 400 meters wide.
- Kevin maintained a 4-5 liter air cavity by exhaling before the snow locked, remaining conscious after burial.
- Rescue response began at 3:45 PM Saturday with 16 people, 12 probers, and 2 avalanche dogs searching overnight into Sunday.
- A Black Diamond Recon transceiver on Kevin transmitted erratically, with specialists concluding the signal was likely rotated inside a pack and refracted by subsurface ice layers.
- At 6:41 AM Tuesday, May 13, Amy Bauer found a small orange handle standing vertical in eleven feet of compacted debris with no surrounding footprints. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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1 OCT 2026 · He Wrote His Escape Map on a Silver Blanket - 42 Hours Underground
Fear of being trapped alive: a 22-year-old certified cave diver wrote a precise escape map on a silver emergency blanket, marking "T+41 hrs, depth est. 180 ft, air good" after disappearing into an uncharted dry gallery 180 feet below ground; how did he survive 42 hours when his spare gear never left the staging table?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the moment he signed the register at Millhaven Cave Preserve to the discovery of the handwritten map and the rescue effort that followed, ending on the question of what choices he made alone in the dark to stay alive.
Person: Dale Fisher
Date: April 15, 2017
Location: Millhaven Cave Preserve
Age: 22 years
Occupation: Warehouse worker
- He signed the Millhaven register at 7:41 AM and listed a planned exit time of noon.
- The emergency blanket with the map was snagged in a blackberry thicket four miles from the cave entrance.
- The blanket's notation read "T+41 hrs, depth est. 180 ft, air good."
- A fourteen-inch-wide, eight-inch-tall gap was sealed by about six inches of fine sediment before Dale cleared it.
- His lights were estimated to last approximately eighteen hours before batteries died. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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30 SEP 2026 · She Wrote Her Location on the Frosted Window - Survived Six Nights
Frosted letters traced from the inside of a rear window read CUTLER CREEK SOUTH BEND at eighteen degrees - a technical notation, not a plea - and it was the single detail that closed the gap between a woman buried to the axle in a ditch and the teams searching the wrong road. How did Marcia Hansen survive six nights with a dwindling supply of hand-warmers and a locked axle while a county search passed within visual range without finding her?
In this episode, we follow the precise timeline of Marcia Hansen’s outing, the flawed search assumptions, and the small, methodical choices that kept her alive. Why did a filed site log and a GPS unit fail to prevent her being overlooked, and what exactly broke the deadlock?
Person: Marcia Hansen
Date: March 3-8, 2011
Location: Ridgeline Spur Road, Benton County
Occupation: Hydrological surveyor
Survival tools: GPS unit, field journal, Mylar blanket, hand-warmers, coffee tin, road flare
- Truck’s last GPS position recorded at 4:17 PM on March 3 at the south end of Ridgeline Spur.
- Temperatures dropped to 18°F while she was trapped; the day she became stuck was 41°F.
- Marcia rationed two hand-warmers each night and melted snow in a coffee tin for water.
- Search teams drove past her truck on March 6 after leaving Farwell before sunrise and did not stop.
- The formal missing-persons report was not filed until 36 hours after Benton County first contacted Millhaven. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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29 SEP 2026 · She Could Have Called - Why Rhonda Stayed Silent 51 Hours
Fear sharpens into cold logic when every decision can mean survival or disappearance: a 61-year-old solo sailor spent 51 hours alive on a drifting 34-foot cutter in one of California’s busiest shipping lanes with an untouched emergency beacon and a working radio-so why didn’t she call for help? What reasoning kept her silent, written in a waterproof notebook as her handwriting deteriorated?
In this episode, we tell the chronological account of what happened to Rhonda Christensen, how a hidden manufacturing defect led to a sudden dismasting, and the choices she made afterward that nearly cost her everything. Can the detailed, experienced logic she applied under pressure explain why she refused to activate the EPIRB or radio?
Person: Rhonda Christensen
Age: 61
Vessel: 34-foot Pacific Seacraft cutter named Celia Dawn
Time adrift before discovery: 51 hours
Date of boarding by inspector: February 9, 2019
- Departure time from Morro Bay: 7:45 AM on Saturday, February 2, 2019 (first Saturday of February 2019)
- Distance offshore when testing extended: 16 miles by early afternoon
- Time of dismasting event: 4:17 PM when three waves struck and the mast went over
- Emergency beacon (EPIRB) condition: dry, intact, clip still engaged, never activated
- Person who discovered and boarded the drifting boat: county land inspector at 9:04 AM on Friday, February 9, 2019 To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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28 SEP 2026 · One Pint, One Boot: How She Survived 18 Hours in Copperline Canyon
A size seven women's hiking boot, double-knotted and standing upright against a rusted fence post eleven miles from the nearest marked trail, became the first hard clue in a search that lasted days. A twenty-six-year-old dental hygienist left a three-page trip plan but went into Copperline Canyon carrying one pint of water - how did a single missing piece of gear turn a routine day hike into a life-or-death scramble?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning Bruce Barrett found the boot through the five-day, roughly eighteen-hour period that followed, detailing the choices Cynthia Becker made, the gear she actually carried, and the moments that decided her fate. How did a detour, a broken ankle, and three tablespoons of snowmelt shape the outcome?
Person: Cynthia Becker
Age: 26
Location: Copperline Canyon, Colorado Plateau
Date: January 20
Finder: Bruce Barrett
- The boot found by Bruce Barrett was size seven, double-knotted, and standing upright against a rusted fence post.
- Cynthia left a handwritten three-page trip plan on January 14 naming her brother Curtis in Phoenix as emergency contact.
- Her planned loop was roughly fourteen miles: down Hasp Draw into Copperline Canyon, six miles east along the canyon floor, then up to Needle Bench and back.
- Her intended gear list included a two-liter hydration bladder, but she actually bought and carried only a sixteen-ounce water bottle (one pint).
- She slid approximately fifteen feet when she descended a pour-off and fractured her right lateral malleolus. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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27 SEP 2026 · Left Foot, Broken Night: How He Built a Self-Rescue Marker
Cold and calculated: a man with a broken knee, eleven minutes, and a trekking pole driven four inches into iron-frozen ground - left as a deliberate marker that was also a lifeline. Which decisions and improvisations turned a routine ultra into a two-day survival story that began with a knot “too anatomical” to be a trail sign?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the moment the pole was found to the night Lloyd Mueller began his self-rescue, outlining the route, the preparations he made, and the split-second choices he faced on mile sixty-two. How did his training, gear and a homemade splint change a 102-mile winter attempt into a test of improvised survival?
Person: Lloyd Mueller
Event: solo winter traverse of the Crestline Backcountry
Distance: 102 miles
Location: Harmon Plateau to Dillard Basin, northern Idaho
Temperature: as low as seven degrees Fahrenheit (photograph morning)
- He had been running ultras for eleven years and logged split times and bail routes.
- He planned two resupply caches: at mile 24 (fire road crossing) and mile 50.
- He notified SAR coordinator Donald Hansen two weeks before the run.
- At mile 62 his right knee popped and he fashioned a splint in eleven minutes using an emergency bivy aluminum stay and a Black Diamond trekking pole.
- A photographer found the pole standing four inches into frozen ground with two sections bound by his left running tights and called Crestline County Sheriff. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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26 SEP 2026 · Days Alone, Two Boots on a Post, and a Mountain That Lied
Cold November morning, two hiking boots balanced on a trail marker, and a summit team stranded because a satellite messenger lied about its own location - what could go wrong on a routine alpine outing? The northern Cascades, a broken signal, and a diabetic camp cat all collide in a story about failed assumptions and a clock that refused to stop; who decided that everyone would simply trust the green light?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that began at 5:42 a.m. on November 19, 2011, and trace how a marginal antenna, an unread register entry, and a rigid schedule for a twelve-year-old cat shaped the rescue decisions - could a simple assumption cost lives?
Person: Vicki Gallagher
Person: Ted Novak
Person: Doug Ferris
Date: November 19, 2011
Location: Broken Tooth South, northern Cascades
- At 5:42 a.m. on November 19, 2011, fourteen-year-old Eric Stein found two hiking boots tied and balanced on a trail marker post.
- The summit team left base camp on November 9; base camp was at 7,200 feet with Vicki Gallagher managing it.
- The satellite messenger at base camp had shown a continuous green "connected" status despite a cracked solder joint causing malformed pings.
- Doug Ferris fell on November 11 at roughly 8,400 feet, sustaining a mid-shaft fibula fracture after a 15-foot fall.
- Sprout, a twelve-year-old diabetic cat, required insulin injections every twelve hours (6 a.m. and 6 p.m.), a schedule Vicki maintained for eleven days. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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Are you ready to face the wild? Extreme Survival throws you headfirst into the most unforgiving environments on Earth. This is where raw human instinct meets the brutal force of...
show more
Are you ready to face the wild? Extreme Survival throws you headfirst into the most unforgiving environments on Earth.
This is where raw human instinct meets the brutal force of nature. Extreme Survival explores true stories of survival, from harrowing wilderness escapes to mastering essential bushcraft skills. We break down the strategies, mental fortitude, and gear that make the difference between life and death.
New episodes drop daily, Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM. Each installment delivers gripping narratives, expert insights into survival techniques, and practical tips for wilderness preparedness that will sharpen your own capabilities.
Perfect for adventurers, preppers, and anyone fascinated by the limits of human resilience against extreme conditions. If you're looking to understand what it truly takes to endure, this podcast is for you.
Subscribe now and prepare for the unexpected.
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This is where raw human instinct meets the brutal force of nature. Extreme Survival explores true stories of survival, from harrowing wilderness escapes to mastering essential bushcraft skills. We break down the strategies, mental fortitude, and gear that make the difference between life and death.
New episodes drop daily, Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM. Each installment delivers gripping narratives, expert insights into survival techniques, and practical tips for wilderness preparedness that will sharpen your own capabilities.
Perfect for adventurers, preppers, and anyone fascinated by the limits of human resilience against extreme conditions. If you're looking to understand what it truly takes to endure, this podcast is for you.
Subscribe now and prepare for the unexpected.
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