Extreme Survivors: 60 of the World’s Most Extreme Survival Stories
Extreme Survivors tells the illustrated story of 60 of the most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories. These are astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour.The statistics, descriptions, archive photographs and illustrative maps will give the reader a full understanding of how Joe Simpson crawled to safety in the South American Andean mountains, how Anthony Farrar-Hockley evaded capture after the Battle of Imjin River in the Korean War and how Shackleton’s men survived the incredible journey by boat to South Georgia.Sixty of the world's greatest survival stories. Here is a selection of them:Survival Stories• The Miracle of Stairway B, and how 16 people managed to escape death in the Twin Towers on 9/11.• The infamous story of the Montevideo rugby union team’s plane crash in the Andes, and their subsequent admission of cannibalism – 2012 is the 40th anniversary of the crash.Prison Escapes• Mary Queen of Scots and her escape from a remote Scottish castle.• Three men pull off what is possibly the only successful escape from Alcatraz.• Henri Charrière’s (Papillon) five escape attempts from the Devil’s Island penal colony.Wartime Escapes• The story of Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist who escaped the genocide of Pol Pot.• How the German soldier Cornelius Rost escaped from a labour camp in Siberia and trekked for 3 years to Iran.Shipwrecks• Ernest Shackleton’s incredible journey to South Georgia to save every man on an expedition.• The story of 18 year old William Shotton and how he navigated his ship after most of the crew perished from a mystery disease in 1893.Hostage Situations• Naheeda Bi’s ten years in captivity after her notorious tribal kidnapping in Pakistan.• The dramatic rescue of Íngrid Betancourt by Colombian security forces after six years as a hostage.
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EXTREME SURVIVORS
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CONTENTS
Another Antarctic Winter, 1912
The Inconvenient Survivor, 1960
Disaster on the Dark Side of the Moon, 1970
Two Miles Up without a Parachute, 1971
The Cruel Cost of Survival, 1972
The Boy who Fell Out of the Storm, 1979
Under the Rumbling Mountain, 1980
The Miracle of Stairway B, 2001
The Sole Survivor of Flight 626, 2009
The Miracle on the Hudson, 2009
Journey from the Centre of the Earth, 2010
The Survivor of Circumstance, 2010
PRISON
Charmed by a Renegade Queen, 1568
Flight of the Philosopher, 1621
Escape from Devil’s Island, 1932
The Escape from Alcatraz, 1962
WAR
The Man who Might be King, 1746
The Last of the Sixteen Thousand, 1842
A Midget Submarine and Malaria, 1942
The Incredible Journey of Jan Baalsrud, 1943
Across the Roof of the World, 1944
Escape from a Siberian Gulag, 1949
The Six Escapes of ‘Farra the Para’, 1951
Across the Killing Fields, 1975
The Jungle and the Genocide, 2000
Shipwreck, Slavery and the Burning Sand, 1815
The Whale and the Pacific, 1820
Five Days in a Deadly Sea, 1945
HOSTAGES
The Girl from the Secret Cellar, 1998
Ten Years as a Secret Slave, 2000
FOREWORD
Having spent my life in so many dangerous and at times unforgiving terrains, I have learnt that to come out the other side alive you have to find the spirit to keep going, whatever the cost. Each of the stories in this book tells of that same spirit in those who endured. As individuals we cannot conquer a mountain or a storm, but we can learn to harness nature’s elements, and our own limitations, to see almost any ordeal through.
Appropriate preparation and experience are essential for any expedition, but they are no guarantee of safety. Even the wariest of adventurers can fall foul to difficult conditions, faulty equipment or lapses in concentration. Only by keeping calm and finding confidence in their own abilities will they stand a chance of passing through the constant threats thrown up by nature. Within this book are stories of those who ventured out with an awareness and appreciation of the danger ahead, but who faltered, rallied and survived: Joe Simpson’s horrific fall on Siula Grande in 1985; Aron Ralston, trapped by rocks and forced to amputate his arm; Ernest Shackleton’s epic South Georgia expedition and his determination to return his stranded men alive.
