I Got Lucky

Hiking the Kaua Crater Trail can lead to a slippery situation and revving your engine along the Angeles Crest Highway can cause a catastrophic tumble.

What’s it like as a skydiver to collide with an airplane at 12,000 feet and what can happen when you snowmobile up a mountain between two rock faces?

Racing down a mountain while lying on a skateboard is bound to lead to some crushing situations. Then see a gust of wind upturn an idling helicopter.

Hear how it feels to flood your airplane engine above a highway full of commuters and see what can happen when your SUV gets stuck in a river.

First-time hang gliding can have unexpected consequences and see happens when two barges trying to lift a bridge come crashing down onto a Dutch town.

Trying to break the land speed record on a beat-up desert racecourse can be brutal as can jumping off a cliff, and bashing into it on your way down.

An amateur skydiver tells us what it’s like to get knocked out before you’ve pulled your chute and learn the dangers of spring skiing on a glacier.

Hear the suffocating experience of getting buried in an avalanche and discover what happens when you play a game of cat and mouse in your supercar.

Hear what it’s like to have one of the worst crashes ever in mountain biking and discover the consequences of falling asleep while driving at 70 mph.

A group of friends describe crashing their small aircraft into a forest. Then, what happens when you try to ride a souped-up dune buggy off a cliff?

A racing driver tells about the impact of having your engine malfunction. Then, what happens when you go kayaking too close to a melting glacier?

Racing high-powered vehicles through the Andes mountains isn’t for the faint of heart and one truck tows another up a steep, snow-covered road.

Two hikers almost get swept away in the Rockies. The consequence of a car getting stuck on one of the busiest highways can be totally shattering.