Trapped in the desert for THREE NIGHTS

Imagine one day waking up next to a stranger. A special bonus series for How I Survived listeners! We’re bringing you some of the best stories of survival from Marie Claire's podcast, You’re Gonna Want To Hear This. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/youre-gonna-want-to-hear-t ... Show More

Maggie Walters has lived a life most people could barely comprehend. Diagnosed in her twenties with Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, Maggie came to understand that her mind had created different parts, or “alters”, to help her survi ... Show More

What happens when the person you loved, the person you trusted with your future, wasn’t who they said they were? And ends up stealing your life savings. A special bonus series for How I Survived listeners! We’re bringing you some of the best stories of survival from Marie Claire' ... Show More

<p>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 visited by millions of people each year. But ... Show More

<p>For nineteen-year-old Will Kleier and his best friends, Jon Perez and Keyton Cornelius, both twenty-years-old, visiting the family ranch at Indian Creek is all about hiking, hunting and enjoying the California high desert - as long as they're back before sundown. But when the ... Show More

Grab your camping gear and make sure you bring plenty of water. This might be a good time to leave your best friend at home. This week we are taking you to Carlsbad Caverns National Park. When two friends from Boston head out on a cross-country road trip to California, they stop ... Show More

<p>A solo backpacking trip in Asia turns dark when a 23-year-old woman fails to return to her family in Colorado. The last place she was seen alive in Nepal holds many secrets and discrepancies along with some of the most treacherous terrain in the world.</p><p>Sources for this e ... Show More

In Hawaii, a yoga instructor pays a visit to her local forest reserve. Amanda Eller intends to take a short hike in nature to blow off some steam. It becomes a mind-bending, multi-day journey, as she stumbles off the path and into the trees. Penned in by the dense foliage, with t ... Show More

A momentary lapse in concentration nearly costs a hiker his life. One wrong turn takes Ed Rosenthal off the beaten track and into the desert. As he scrambles to find the path, he’s drawn deeper and deeper into the wild. Stumbling ever onwards, the endless march will push his body ... Show More

Today’s stories come to us out of the arid wastelands of the desert. Not many things survive out there in the flat heat, but the things that do, thirst for life and connection. First, I’ll tell the story of a young girl who encounters a monster too close to home. Next, we’ll take ... Show More

Kalahari means ‘large thirst’ in the local language and between November and February summer temperatures can reach well over 40 degrees centigrade. To avoid the dry desiccating heat much of the wildlife has adopted nocturnal habits. Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson captures ... Show More

As days and then weeks go by, Jessica tries to adjust to life as a hostage in the Somali desert, but she’s sick and her body is failing. Back in Nairobi, her husband works with her NGO on a plan to get Jessica medicine she needs, but her kidnappers trust no one, not even the nego ... Show More