Stories

When the rescue ship Donaldson finally broke through the fog off Wrangel Island in August 1923, the crew wasn’t sure…

Poon Lim was serving as a second steward in the British Merchant Navy when the merchant ship SS Ben Lomond…

Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa were among the passengers aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 when it crashed in the…

Vesna Vulović became one of the best-known sole survivors in aviation history after JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367 broke apart…

Katherine Johnson’s life is often summarized in one memorable scene: astronaut John Glenn wanted her to check the electronic computer’s…

William Kamkwamba grew up in rural Malawi in a farming family. His international fame came from a simple but powerful…

Henry Brown was born into slavery in Virginia in 1815 or 1816. As a young man he was sent to…

Harrison Okene was working as a cook aboard the tugboat Jascon-4 off the Nigerian coast when, in the early hours…

Juliane Koepcke was 17 years old when a routine Christmas Eve flight became one of the most extraordinary survival stories…

Imagine sitting down while another person places a piece of wood against your mouth, positions a chisel against one of…