Ricky Megee - 70 days in the Australian outback after being drugged and carjacked by a hitchhiker
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Joe Simpson and Simon Yates - a broken leg, frostbite and a 150 foot drop trapped in the Peruvian Andes
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Steve Callahan - lost at sea for 76 days, staved and dehydrated
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Jan Baalsrud - Shot at and pursued by Nazis while swimming icy Norwegian waters, falling 300 feet in an avalanche suffering a concussion and cut off his own toes to prevent his foot from total frostbi
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Slavomir Rawicz - he and six other prisoners escaped a Siberian gulag they marched across the Siberian tundra and Gobi desert, through Tibet and over the Himalayan Mountains to safety in British India
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Juliane Koepcke - lone survivor of the 93 passengers aboard LANSA flight 508. Only seventeen at the time and with no training she survived nine days in the Peruvian rainforest
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Aron Ralston - the movie "127 Hours" is his story
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Harrison Okene - survived three days trapped inside a small air pocket in a mostly sunken boat
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Norman Olstead, Jr. - survived a plane crash at Big Bear Mountain and climbed down to get back to civilization
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Eric Lemarque - lost for seven days he'd lose most of his lower extremities to frostbite