Nando Parrado: the Taste of Human Flesh
Juliane Koepcke: Cauldron of Hell
John McDouall Stuart: the Maddest Explorer Ever?
Captain James Riley: Slaves in the Sahara
Steven Callahan: ‘My Body is Rotting Before My Eyes’
Thor Heyerdahl: the Kon-Tiki Expedition
Jan Baalsrud: the Greatest Escape
Louis Zamperini: Wrecked, Survived, Tortured, Revived
Alistair Urquhart: They Don’t Make ’Em Like This No More
Nancy Wake: the White Mouse Spy
Tommy Macpherson: the Man Who Took on 23,000 Nazis
Edward Whymper: a Disastrous Success
George Mallory: ‘Because It’s There’
Joe Simpson: Cut the Rope or Die
Chris Moon: Kidnapped, Blown Up … and Still Going
Aron Ralston: Self-Surgery Survival
Sir John Franklin: Death in the Arctic
Captain Scott: ‘Great God, This is an Awful Place’
Roald Amundsen: the Greatest Antarctic Explorer Ever
Ernest Shackleton: ‘the Most Pigheaded, Obstinate Boy I Ever Came Across’