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I Shouldn't Be Alive

In the award winning format that made Touching the Void an international hit, ordinary people thrown into epic struggles for survival tell their own stories while high end drama brings these incredible experiences to life. Moment by moment, survivors relive the moral dilemmas, chance events and desperate decisions that ultimately brought them home.
201112 episodes
X-Ray16+
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Episodes

  1. S4 E1 - A Dad's Worst Nightmare
    October 12, 2010
    48min
    16+
    Divorcee Mathew McGough is taking his five-year-old daughter Shannon for an overnight camping trip to Wallaroo Rocks. After 8 days in the outback Mathew is on the verge of death and confronted with an excruciating dilemma -kill his young daughter, or leave her to face a painful death alongside him, inone of the world'smost hostile environments.
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  2. S4 E2 - Shipwrecked Family
    October 19, 2010
    48min
    16+
    On the final leg of an amazingtwo year sailing voyage, the Silverwood Family hit some stormy weather 180 miles west of Bora Borain the South Pacific. It's no big deal, until a broken mast pin and a submerged rockyreef suddenly turns their adventure into a potentially deadly one.
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  3. S4 E3 - Edge Of Death
    October 26, 2010
    48min
    13+
    Charlie Hench has set himself a big challenge before he turns the big 50 -to fulfil his dream of a late-summer solo hike through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. But he underestimates the challenge ahead.
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  4. S4 E4 - Crashed in the Rockies
    November 2, 2010
    48min
    13+
    Trainee pilot Justin Kirkbride takes two friends, Tommy and Larry, on a sightseeing tour of the Rocky Mountains, but crashes on a steep, snowy mountainside. Larry breaks his leg, while best friend Tommy is knocked unconscious.
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  5. S4 E5 - Death in the Sea of Cortez
    November 9, 2010
    48min
    16+
    Lifelong friends Joseph Rangel and Lorenzo Madrid, both in their 50s, sign up for a five-day sport fishing trip in the Sea of Cortez. On their final day of fishing the two Americans and their Mexican guide Pepe are shipwrecked on a remote and hostile desert island. W
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  6. S4 E6 - 76 Days Adrift
    November 16, 2010
    48min
    16+
    Steven Callahan departs from El Hierro in the Canary Islands He's bound for Antigua as part of the Mini Transat 6.50 single-handed sailing race from Penzance, England. One night a ferocious storm severely damages his boat. He escapes the sinking vessel in an inflatable life-raft, nicknamed Ducky, with a meagre supply of food and water.
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  7. S4 E7 - Alone In The Amazon
    November 11, 2010
    48min
    16+
    In the final leg of his Comments restricted to single page 3journey Benedict meets two gold miners who steal his guides then threaten to kill him. Fearing for his life Benedict is forced to tackle the wilds of the Amazon with only his faithful dog, Cashoe, for company.
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  8. S4 E8 - Crashed in the Jungle
    November 24, 2010
    48min
    16+
    Newlyweds Brandon and Brandy Wiley are on a backpacking adventure in Costa Rica, when their 8 -person Cessna crashes in dense tropical rainforest. The pilots and one passenger are killed on impact.
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  9. S4 E9 - River of Fear
    January 4, 2011
    48min
    16+
    Fresh-faced twenty two year old Brit Benedict Allen embarks on an epic six-month expedition which will take him from the mouth of the Orinoco River to the Mouth of the Amazon River through six hundred miles of uncharted jungle.
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  10. S4 E10 - Hike into Hell
    January 18, 2011
    48min
    16+
    Twenty five year old nurseLinda Forney and her pet dog Cocoa Gin set off to explore one of the seven natural wonders of the world-the Grand Canyon. On route to a native Indian village she takes a wrong turn and ends up lost, alone and with no food or water.
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  11. S4 E11 - Killer Crevasse
    December 15, 2021
    48min
    16+
    Mountaineer Jim Davidson and best-friend Mike Price embark on a mountaineering expedition to conquer the snow-shrouded summit of Mount Rainier in Washington State. On the ascent disaster strikes when, without warning, Jim plunges into an 80 foot crevasse,pulling Mike down with him.
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  12. S4 E12 - Death Climb
    January 25, 2011
    48min
    13+
    While climbing in the French Alps, two friends find themselves trapped on a tiny ledge in a viscous storm.
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Content advisory
Violencealcohol usefoul language
Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Producers
Vivian McGrath
Starring
Divers
Studio
Darlow Smithson Productions
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