Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | Radio Silence | 4

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Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | One Foot in the Black | 5

Kyle Dickman remembers the exact moment he learned about the fate of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. As a former firefighter and hotshot himself, the news hit him hard. He reported on the tragedy for Outside magazine, then spent the next two years researching and writi ...

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Lost in the Rainforest | Into the Jungle | 1

It’s 1981 and 22-year-old Yossi Ghinsberg is wrapping up a backpacking trip through South America. In La Paz, Bolivia, he and two friends meet an older Austrian expat, who entices them to join him on a trek into an uncharted corner of the Amazon rainforest. Yossi and his compa ...

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