Be shocked and amazed by these incredible real-life stories of extreme survival. .
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Julianne Koepcke: The girl who fell from the sky -- Douglas Mawson: The man who came home alone -- Hans Peter Strelczyk and Günter Wetzel: The friends who crossed the border by balloon -- Tami Oldham: The woman who sailed into a hurricane -- Roger Chapman and Roger Mallinson: The men who shared a sandwich on the seabed -- Aron Ralston: The canyoneer who cut off his own arm -- Poon Lim: The man who sucked blood from a shark -- Ernest Shackleton: The commander who saved his crew -- Hugh Glass: The trapper who grappled with a grizzly -- Mauro Prosperi: The desert runner who drank his own wee -- Sue Ruff and Bruce Nelson: The couple who were blasted by a volcano -- Colby Coombs: The mountaineer who overcame an avalanche -- Eric LeMarque: The snowboarder who took a deadly wrong turn -- Craig Hosking: The pilot who crashed inside a volcano -- Anna Bagenholm: The woman who froze to death, yet lived -- Johann Westhauser -- The caver who got trapped for a dozen days -- John Capes: The survivor no one believed -- Leonid Rogozov: The doctor who operated on himself -- Rob Tesar: The student who was sucked under by quicksand -- Greg Rasmussen: The conservationist who crashed in the Kalahari -- Brant Webb and Todd Russell: The miners who spent two weeks underground -- Claudio Corti: The climber who was snatched from the wall of death -- Yossi Ghinsburg: The adventurer who went over a waterfall.