Man vs. Nature: Amazing Real-Life Survival Stories That Defied All Odds

Talking about the survival of the strongest. Alone history's series pull contestants into a few of the world's most avenging territories, with a mare minimum of safety, clothing, and survival gear. In this campaign, whoever can survive 100 days will carry home $1 million.

In their fighting against the elements, contestants are compelled to use their grit, their creativity, and their power to become real survivalists. Several people choose to be shoved into such extreme situations, but those who do have regularly slipped into some colossal bad luck. Just dig into this record of popular real-life survival stories

Aron Ralston

If you've watched the movie 127 Hours, you can tell how Aron Ralston's story takes off. But for those who haven't, it's quite a shocker. Ralston in 2003, was trekking alone in Canyonlands in Bluejohn Canyon National Park in southeast Utah. While he was falling into one of the distant and incredibly narrow canyons, a rock fell and busted his right arm.

He survived on packed water and snacks for five days, wishing somebody would find him. The problem was, not only was the area distant, but he also hadn't told anybody the place he was going.

Feeling he may never be located (and running short of supplies), he was pushed to mutilate his arm by cutting through the bone using his multi-tool that included a knife. After liberating himself, he started to walk seven-mile back to his truck. On his path, a family found him and told the authorities.

He lost 40 pounds during his experience and miraculously somehow resisted bleeding to death. He now works as a motivational speaker and continues to the mountaineer.

Sir Douglas Mawson

Douglas Mawson, hero or a cannibal? Douglas was an Australian explorer and geologist who popularly investigated the frozen continent in 1912 with a group of fellow adventurers.

Mawson and two other expedition members in December of that year left the major base at Commonwealth Bay, undertaking an exploration 300-mile into the core of the continent to collect specimens and scientific data. Tragedy ensued.

One of the men, a youthful British soldier called Belgrave Ninnis, fell down a crevasse on a sled, along with some of their best dogs and much of the team's supplies.
For some weeks, the two others, plagued by scurvy and other ills, battled to return to camp, initially subsisting on the remaining dogs, then on hunger. Finally, a Swiss mountaineer and skiing champion Xavier Mertz died from exhaustion, starvation, and likely toxicity from consuming dogs' livers.

Determined to come back with the scientific data, Mawson struggled for 30-some days through elements, ultimately in February of 1913, tumbled into a base camp, frost-bitten, exhausted, and emaciated to discover he had missed by hours the ship returning the rest of the crew.

While regarded as a survivor hero, his face now illuminates the Australian $100 bill, and he was later knighted, there are concerns about what extreme extents he may have gone to survive.

A biography of Mawson in 2013 propose he might have deliberately set his and Mertz's hunger portions to a degree that would accelerate the death of his companion, and that he ate and boiled Mertz's corpse to stay alive. Mawson's offspring decry the account.

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