Two Kilometres Underground: Inches of Breathing Room

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Family Plane Trip: Dodging Weather and Mountains

In May 2012, Brian Brown is flying his small, single-engine private plane from his home in California over to Idaho, to visit his eldest daughter. It should be a simple journey of just a few hours. But when the aircraft is assailed by terrible weather over the Owyhee Mountains al ...  Afficher plus

Accident on the Farm: Famous Overnight

On a frosty January morning in 1992, John Thompson - a high school student from North Dakota - gets up. It promises to be an ordinary day of chores on his family’s farm. Simple tasks, ones he’s done thousands of times before. But on this occasion things take a sudden and horrifyi ...  Afficher plus

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Modern Lives, Ancient Caves
Overheard at National Geographic

There's a lost continent waiting to be explored, and it’s right below our feet. We’ll dig into the deep, human relationship to the underground, and why we understand it from an instinctive point of view — but not so much from a physical one. (Hint: we’re afraid of the dark.) Nati ...  Afficher plus

Playback: Modern Lives, Ancient Caves
Overheard at National Geographic

There’s a lost continent waiting to be explored, and it’s right below our feet. We’ll dig into the deep human relationship to the underground—and why we understand it from an instinctive point of view, but not so much from a physical one. (Hint: We’re afraid of the dark.) In an e ...  Afficher plus

Selects: Cave Diving: Totally Nuts
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There are extreme sports and then there is cave diving, the most extreme activity a person can engage in without leaving Earth. Cave divers stay underwater swimming miles into – that’s right – caves, where no human has ever been before. It’s pretty cool. Wade in with Josh and Chu ...  Afficher plus