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6 Episodes 2017 - 2017
Episode 1
Sun, Aug 20, 2017 60 mins
In the premiere, a young couple take the popular Palm Springs Aerial Tram way up the 8000-foot San Jacinto Mountain. They go off the trail for a photo, but can't find their way back. Their harrowing three-day attempt to hike down the extreme mountain terrain leads them into a dead-end canyon. There, the grisly discovery of a hiker who died a year before in this remote location leave them believing they are not going to get out alive.
Episode 2
Sun, Aug 27, 2017 60 mins
When the Kim family takes a wrong turn, they get stuck in the snow on a logging road. With two infant children and no real knowledge about mountains and frigid temperatures, their situation turns desperate. After three days they are out of food and gas, no one knows where they are and no one is likely to come down the road for months.
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 10, 2017 60 mins
To celebrate their anniversary, Rick McFarland and Cathy Frye took off for a one-day hike a new trail in their favorite region—the Texas desert. They lost their way and become desperately dehydrated. When Cathy is overcome and can no longer move, Rick becomes their only hope of getting out alive. He must leave her behind and hope he can find help before she succumbs to the extreme desert heat.
Episode 4
Sun, Sep 17, 2017 60 mins
Rulon Gardner won the Greco-Roman wrestling gold medal in the 2000 Olympics. Two years later, he got soaked when his snowmobile was stuck in a river. With temperatures plunging to 25 below zero overnight, he faced the toughest opponent of all: death. On a solo fishing trip in the California's Northern Sierras, Mike Vilhauer ventured into the woods to catch grasshoppers for bait. He lost his way back, and spent days trekking through the rugged and punishing terrain.
Episode 5
Sun, Sep 24, 2017 60 mins
An experienced bow hunter breaks his leg while in complete wilderness and believes his only choice is a slow death or a quick one—with his own pistol; a realtor becomes lost while on a hike in the Joshua Tree desert.
Episode 6
Sat, Sep 16, 2017 60 mins
Floods can strike anywhere in the U.S., leaving people cut off and battling for survival. When a record storm surge created a river that surrounded the York's house, the rising water threatened the couple's last refuge. Superstorm Sandy tossed Kim Joyce and her cats into its churning waters where survival was a miracle. A wind-whipped storm surge from Hurricane Ike hammered the home of Carole Hamadey. She had to hold her windows in place or be sucked out to a certain death.