The story of how nine skiers were killed, and six survived, in the deadliest avalanche in modern California history.

Outside is known for covering survival stories, from the 1996 Everest disaster that inspired Into Thin Air to the original story behind The Perfect Storm. These real-life tales often center on heroic ...

Many readers will recall the 2021 day when a Duluth, Minnesota, team came to the rescue of 26 anglers stranded on an ice floe that broke off in Lake Superior. Alex Messenger also remembers it as the ...

A simple object can symbolize both despair and promise. That's just what happened for survivors of the holocaust and other genocides, who brought pieces of their past to America. They left their homes ...

Moran, and Mark Olsky are survivors born to survivors. During the Holocaust, their mothers were young Jewish women sent to concentration camps when they were newly pregnant.

“Weathering the Storm” is a new series documenting severe weather events across the country and how communities rally together in the face of devastation.Hear heart-pounding stories of some of the ...

As time marches on, the number of Holocaust survivors left diminishes. These are the stories two survivors, who have since passed away, shared in the documentary “The Last Survivors.” Manfred Goldberg ...

Walk almost anywhere in Pennsylvania at dawn or dusk, and there is a good chance a white-tailed deer will be watching from the tree line. This familiar mammal is more than a roadside silhouette or a ...

As the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, it is only appropriate that we take a full account of what happened from the broadest possible array of perspectives. It is universally known ...

In 1971, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke crash landed in the Amazon rainforest on a flight from Lima, Peru, en route to her family’s research station. The sole survivor, Koepcke made her way through the ...

I recently started reading The Martian by Andy Weir. Yes, I know, I’m fashionably late to the party. If the protagonist of the story, Mark Watney, learns to survive for months as the only person on ...