Craziest Survival Stories That Actually Happened

From people who did everything they could to survive to ones that lasted for decades without being discovered here are 8 amazing survival stories that actually happened Aron Ralston Aron Ralston is arguably one of the more famous survival stories of recent times and there's a very good reason for that given what he had to go through in order to make it through a rather harrowing ordeal In 2003 Ralston was hiking alone in Bluejohn Canyon in Canyonlands National Park in southeast Utah He was doing some climbing and descending down rocks and canyons when his arm got pinned by a boulder that fell on him 7 The USS Indianapolis There are many tales of survival from World War II but arguably one of the most dramatic and arguably insane was that of the USS Indianapolis In short it was near the end of World War II in 1945 and the plans were in place to drop the atomic bombs on Japan But the Uranium needed to be transported to a certain site close to Japan The USS Indianapolis was assigned that job 6 Soviet 613 Submarine Escape During the height of the Cold War both the United States and the Soviet Union were doing their best to arm themselves for just about everything Including making new vessels like submarines to ensure that they were ready For the Soviet Union this included the Soviet Project 613 Submarine which was doing a test in arctic waters when something went horribly wrong 5 Juliane Koepcke There have been many tales of people trying to survive after a plane crash in the case of Juliane Koepcke she found herself in a dire situation on December 24th 1971 when lightning struck LANSA Flight 508 just over the Peruvian Forest The plane quite literally exploded and descended quickly to the trees below 4 The Miracle Of The Andes In 1972 a terrible plane crash happened Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was carrying a rugby team that was scheduled to do a match in Chile As they were heading there the co-pilot of the plane who was very inexperienced believed that they were very close to their destination when in fact they were not So much so that when he decided to descend the plane it hit a mountain in the Andes causing it to literally crash into the snow and even trigger an avalanche 3 Apollo 13 The journey to space has been well documented in terms of the struggles that went on including the tragedy of shuttles like Apollo 11 and the Challenger Yet the United States has never lost a person in space though it did almost happen in 1970 with the legendary and infamous Apollo 13 mission 2 The Mount Everest Disaster To many climbing Mount Everest is meant to be the pinnacle of achievement to the extent that hundreds try and climb it every year Even with the dangers that are out there on that treacherous climb Which survivor Beck Weathers can fully explain as he was part of the event known as the Mount Everest Disaster 1 Juana Maria Known as the Lone Woman Of San Nicolas the Native American Juana Maria had a very interesting tale of survival that both began and ended in tragedy She is famous for spending nearly 18 years stranded on an island called San Nicholas near California She had grown up there with her tribe but most of them were all but wiped out by hunters in the 1800 s

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