Disaster Strikes | Extreme Rescues

Extreme Rescues tells dramatic real-life stories from across the globe using footage captured by the rescuers themselves. In this episode a novice caver is trapped in a flooding passage, a helicopter crew needs to find a way to save an injured hiker from an inaccessible crevice, and in Australia...

44 min - Disasters & Survival - National Geographic

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