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♪♪

Narrator: Next on
"doomsday caught on camera"...

Man: Oh, my god!

What happens
when a furious sea...

[ man screams ]

...Unleashes devastating force?

Lord, if you're gonna take me,
make it quick.

Narrator: A river
of scorching fire...

This is insane.

...Incinerates everything
in its path.

Woman: Lava is a truly
unstoppable force of nature.

Narrator:
A mile-wide twister...

It's heading
right for town.

...Barrels down on the innocent.

And that is scary.
It's scary as hell.

[ woman screams ]

Narrator:
This devious dust devil...

Ricky!

Narrator:
...Goes on a hellish rampage.

It didn't seem like
he could survive such a thing.

And even more jaw-dropping
weather phenomena...

[ screaming ]

...That will make you thank god

It didn't happen to you.

This was the scariest moment
of my life.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: White sand,
clear blue ocean,

And swaying palm trees.

A tropical island is
a beautiful, luscious paradise.

But when a hurricane strikes,

It can turn into a death trap
with no escape.

♪♪

When it's too late
to get off the island,

Will you survive?

Man: Oh, god.

♪♪

August 31, 2019, the bahamas.

Late morning, powerful
hurricane dorian

Has been brewing
in the atlantic ocean

And has its sights set
on the island nation.

On great abaco,

John slack and his wife tichka
have been glued to the tv

To learn the danger
that's in store.

They have just 24 hours
before the hurricane hits.

Slack: We knew it was a bad
hurricane at a category 5,

And that's as big as you get.

Our house is up in a small
fishing village

Right smack on the sea of abaco,

Probably only 100 feet back
from the water.

Narrator:
Concerned for their safety,

The slacks seek refuge
at their friend's house

A 1/4 of a mile away
from the coast.

Our friend's home was
concrete construction,

All hurricane doors
and windows,

And we felt more comfortable

Going down
to ride it out with him.

Narrator: Meanwhile,
about 90 miles west

On grand bahama island,
tim aylen and his family

Have also been monitoring
the oncoming storm.

Unlike the slacks, the aylens
live 6 miles inland,

So they have decided staying put
in their house is the safest.

Aylen: Being so far
from the coastline,

You're not concerned about
flood waters and the ocean

Coming to your doorstep.

The unique challenge
about being on an island

Or a chain of islands
when a hurricane is approaching

Is that to evacuate
is very difficult.

You kind of just have to
hunker down

Because there's nowhere to go.

[ thunder cracks ]

Narrator:
Early the next morning,
the rain starts to fall,

And the first winds and waves
crash onto great abaco island.

Slack: The wind is blowing hard,
and the palm trees are blowing.

And then the rain
is getting harder and harder,

And the visibility
is getting less and less.

And then the palm trees
are bending more and more.

Meanwhile, inside,

You start to get
a little leak around the door.

"oh, we got a leak over here.
You got a towel?"

And then it just got
progressively worse.

Probably around 2:00 to 3:00
that afternoon,

The waves were 2 to 6 feet
up against the door.

Narrator: Outside, conditions
are dire as the winds gust

Over 200 miles an hour.

Delgado: He's in the eye wall,

The most intense part
of the hurricane,

Where you get the heaviest
rainfall, the strongest winds.

This was terrifying.

Abbott: Your senses get
overwhelmed with all the noises.

Is that glass going to hold?
Is the window going to break?

Narrator: And then...

Hurricane dorian is now
inside the house.

♪♪

For john and tichka,

The situation goes from
frightening to petrifying.

Slack: It was so totally
unexpected.

The house started
filling up with water.

♪♪

And waves are up on the windows,
halfway up the wall.

I had never been through
a hurricane this bad.

We all finally moved
to the back bedroom,

And the king bed is floating.

It was a case of survival.

I remember my wife praying
and telling me that,

"lord if you're gonna take me,
just make it quick.

And if our time has come,
just let it be quick."

♪♪

Narrator: As the slacks
hunker down and pray

They can ride out
the rest of the storm,

Over on grand bahama island,
the aylen family

Is just beginning
their battle with dorian,

But they have no idea
just how much danger they're in.

Delgado: This hurricane
sat for two days,

Just dropping
several feet of rainfall.

Aylen: My son noticed water
coming in through the garage,

So that was a huge shock.

Narrator: At first, the water
is only a few inches deep.

Aylen:
But then it just kept going,
and then it was up to the knees,

And everyone's looking
at me like,

"what do we do, daddy?
What do we do?"

Abbott:
How high is it going to go?

Is it going to go up to the
ceiling level? You might drown.

Where are you going to go?

We tried opening the front door.
Might have been a mistake.

But then the water
started pouring in.

Woman: Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.
No, no, no. No.

We can't believe
what's happening.

Narrator: Tim slams the door to
keep more water from rushing in

As he desperately tries
to figure out a way

To save himself and his family.

I would definitely say this was
the scariest moment of my life.

Narrator: Water inside the house
is now waist-high,

And tim decides
it's time to evacuate.

We opened the window, and then
everybody just climbed out.

Martin: It's a very difficult
decision to leave your house

And to go into this place
of raging water, running water,

Which has tremendous power.

It shows the fury of the storm,
and it also shows

How strong these people
really are.

Narrator: Once outside, all tim
can see is raging water

And floating debris everywhere.

Aylen: You just panic
a little bit,

And you're worried
about everybody and everything.

Narrator:
But there's no turning back.

They must get to higher ground.

Tim's daughter julia
emerges from the house

With precious cargo.

Aylen: She's carrying a dog
under each arm -- big dogs.

Her instinct was just to
get them and get them out.

Orr-ewing:
That's heroism right there.

That's bravery, facing that
kind of water and destruction

And not only thinking
of yourself.

Aylen: You're stepping over
hedges and bumping into rocks,

Everything, as you're walking.

You can smell the gasoline.

Vagell: You could also have
debris that could be sharp.

There could be pieces of metal.

Really, it's kind of like
you're in a war zone underwater.

Narrator: Eventually, the aylens
make their way to a shelter

Where they're able
to safely ride out

The rest of the vicious storm.

Delgado: This is incredible.

I mean, these people could have
been washed away.

Narrator: Back on abaco,

After battling the storm
for nearly 30 hours,

John and tichka slack
were also able to survive

Their harrowing ordeal,

Though, sadly, many in
the bahamas weren't as lucky

With an estimated death toll
in the hundreds.

Slack: The disaster we saw down
there is just hard to describe.

It looked like a bomb had
gone off -- an absolute bomb.

♪♪

I call it apocalyptic. Everybody
would call it apocalyptic.

We were very grateful, actually,
to come out unscathed.

I think as a family, we just
drew on each other's strengths.

So I think that helped us a lot.

Slack: This was not a hurricane.
This was a freak act of nature.

I feel blessed.

I feel blessed.

It's the closest thing
I feel like I ever came to,

You know, possibly dying.

♪♪

Narrator: Coming up...

Man: This thing is
moving so fast.

...Rivers of hot lava
incinerate a town.

This is insane.

And...
Woman: Oh, my god!

...A dust devil
from the bowels of hell.

Ricky!

♪♪

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Narrator: Lava --
one of the hottest

And most dangerous natural
substances on the planet.

Boiling-hot molten rock

From deep within
the earth's underbelly.

Though it appears to move
slowly, once unleashed,

The red river of hell
destroys everything in its path.

Man: This thing is
moving so fast.

Beware the fiery monster.

This is insane.

Doomsday has arrived.

♪♪

May 3, 2018.

The big island, hawaii.

Isaac krakauer lives on the east
end of the island, near one

Of the most legendary volcanoes
on the planet, kilauea.

My name is isaac krakauer.

I am a resident
of the big island of hawaii.

Hawaii is really beautiful, and
amazing beauty all around you.

But it's like you're on the edge
of your seat most of the time.

We have earthquakes.

We have tsunamis.
We have volcanoes.

Narrator: Kilauea is
280,000 years old

And is said by locals to be home
to a goddess of fire named pele.

It's also a major
tourist attraction

Because of the constant
lava flow.

Phoenix: Kilauea volcano was,
until 2018,

The most active volcano
on planet earth.

It had been erupting
continuously since the 1980s.

Narrator: Normally, the rivers
of lava flow into the ocean,

And it's a wonder to behold.

But everything is
about to change.

It all began when isaac
felt the earth shake.

It started off with a bunch of
sort of low tremors,

Earthquakes,
which is not uncommon.

Then we started seeing
cracking in the road.

And then we had
a big earthquake.

And I was hearing explosions
in the distance,

Which sounded relatively close,

Sounded like a jet engine
was going off.

Narrator: But what isaac hears
is no jet engine.

Pele has been awakened.

♪♪

Krakauer: It's red,
it's fireworks,

It makes the sky glow.

It's absolutely insane.

♪♪

Narrator: But this time,

The lava is not heading
for the ocean.

Instead, cracks have formed
inland, and the hot,

Scorching rivers are flowing
straight into the place

Isaac grew up, a densely
populated neighborhood

Known as leilani estates.

Krakauer: There was a lot
of people freaking out,

And nobody
really knew what to do.

Everybody was very panicked.

Narrator: Residents are ordered
to evacuate within 24 hours.

That's when isaac makes
one of the hardest decisions

Of his life --
to protect himself

By staying away, or venture
into the depths of hell

To help friends and family.

Krakauer: I had to
help them move out.

And nobody else really wanted
to go back there.

I felt that was sort of
my purpose.

Narrator: But when he drives in,
he's shocked by what he sees.

Rivers of lava creeping
everywhere.

Krakauer: It's so hot.
The heat is absolutely insane.

There is sulfur in the air.
It burns your skin.

It burns your eyes,
burns your face, everything.

Phoenix: Volcanic eruptions come
with a lot of hazards.

You have the dangers of gases
and ejected material

And the lava itself.

You can be really severely
injured or killed.

Krakauer: You are trying to
maintain your calm

As much as possible
even though your heart rate

Is fluctuating up and down.

It was absolutely intense.

Narrator: Surrounded
by unthinkable danger,

Isaac watches in utter horror

As the lava destroys
everything in its path.

Krakauer: It was just
awestruck, amazing,

Powerful force coming down
through the jungle.

It's sort of like
a slow-motion disaster.

Phoenix: Lava is a truly
unstoppable force of nature.

It's about 2,000 degrees
fahrenheit,

Which is incredibly hot.

It's four times hotter than the
hottest setting on your oven.

Krakauer: Houses were just gone
in a matter of five, 10 minutes.

And there's absolutely nothing
they can do about it.

Abbott: You see
the visuals there.

If you're a homeowner there,

This whole thing
is a special kind of a disaster.

♪♪

Narrator: For the next
month and a half,

Isaac returns almost daily

To help homeowners
save their belongings.

But then one night

When he reaches the
neighborhood, he sees...

Krakauer:
There was two houses.

One of them was actually
a friend of mine.

Narrator:
It's the moment of truth.

Does isaac carry on
or turn back?

Krakauer: Everything's on fire.

There's lava spewing,
chunks of lava about that big.

They're like foam
falling from the sky.

It was definitely like an
end-of-the-world

Kind of feeling.

Martin: It's a vision
of hell, basically.

I mean, who knows
what hell is like?

But this is most people's
idea of hell.

Narrator: And then...

Krakauer:
The lava was coming through,
and I was getting pinched

In between the jungle
and the lava,

And there was a house there
that was getting taken.

Narrator: Isaac and other
residents are just moments away

From being boxed in.

Krakauer: I'm not totally sure
who it was who yelled it,

But when they said
we had a four minutes,

It meant that the lava
was moving so fast

That if you didn't get out
of there within that time frame,

You would be trapped.

Narrator: Facing certain death,

Isaac has no choice but
to flee and pray he survives.

Krakauer: We were definitely
worried about getting cut off.

My heart was pounding.

♪♪

Narrator: Somehow,
isaac and the others

Are able to escape
with their lives.

Krakauer: I've never seen
anything like it.

Multiple friends and close
relatives lost houses,

Lost their land,
almost everything entirely.

Phoenix: These folks
were decimated.

It's just really fortunate
that no people died.

Krakauer: I'm really blessed
to be able to come out of this.

We got super lucky.

Living in hawaii, you know,
things that are

Really, really violent,
like, you cannot control them.

It's pretty terrifying.

♪♪

Narrator: Coming up...

A terrorizing twister
on a mission.

And...
Man: Steve, watch out!

...Who knew ice could be
this deadly?

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: A tornado
is one of mother nature's

Most mysterious
and terrifying phenomena.

Woman: Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!

And while most people would
never dare get close to one...

Man: That's it.

...A storm chaser thrives
on the thrill of the chase.

What a tornado! My god!

But be not mistaken --
one wrong move

Can mean the difference
between life...

Oh, [bleep], we're too close.
Got to run.

...Or death.

♪♪

April 29, 2017.

Canton, texas,
just 50 miles east of dallas.

Hank schyma is gearing up for a
full day of chasing tornadoes.

I've been storm chasing
in some way or form

Pretty much my whole life.

That day, we knew there was
going to be some tornadoes

Somewhere on this
very large threat area.

I chose the area
around canton, texas,

And one after another,
tornadoes were coming.

Narrator: A single tornado
is treacherous enough,

But multiple twisters
are the ultimate nightmare.

Delgado: This was
the perfect recipe.

We had a stationary front
in place,

Deep tropical moisture.

And this allowed for all of
these tornadoes to pop up.

Schyma: These tornadoes were not
small.

These were monster --
mile-and-a-half-wide tornadoes.

This is extremely dangerous.

And no matter
how experienced you are,

If anything goes wrong,
you're dead.

And that is scary.
It's scary as hell.

Narrator: By late afternoon,

Hank has already witnessed
several intense tornadoes

When suddenly, he notices one of
the most violent twisters

He's ever seen
approaching from the south.

Schyma: Just got
a glimpse of it.

You can hardly even tell
it's a tornado.

Just from horizon to horizon,
you see this wedged cloud

Just going across the sky.

Let's go get it.

♪♪

I'm trying to get close to it,

But there's just
trees in my way.

The fact that you can't
even see it

And it's that close
is terrifying.

Vagell: It's a very fine line.

When you're storm chasing,
your adrenaline's running.

You can hear the terror
in hank's voice.

"am I too close?
Have I misjudged this?"

Narrator: And then the situation
takes a horrifying turn.

I look up and I just see the
clouds just cranking above me,

And I realize,
"oh, man, I'm too close."

I thought for sure this one

Was going to be
just the worst case scenario.

Narrator:
In order to avoid getting
swallowed up by the twister,

Hank slams on the brakes

And quickly turns his truck
in the opposite direction.

Schyma: It's coming up fast.

Oh, [bleep].

Narrator: Having possibly
just cheated death,

He now has a front-row seat
to the devastation.

Dude, you guys...

Better run.

It's like that horror film,
you can see

Just this monster just start
crawling all over the trees.

This thing was just a big,
ugly vacuum cleaner, dark color,

Just destroying
everything in its path.

Narrator: Suddenly, hank makes
a startling realization.

The tornado has veered

And is headed straight
for the town of canton, texas.

3,500 people are about to
face their maker.

♪♪

This is something that can
totally obliterate

And wipe your town
off of the map.

Schyma: It was extremely
apocalyptic.

It was extremely doomsday,
end-of-the-world vibe

That you get, just
the motion of the cloud.

It doesn't look real.

Watching this footage,
this seems like the end,

The absolute last page
of humanity.

The gods have sent down
their cleaning crew

To wipe mankind
off the face of the planet.

Narrator: Hank now has
a choice --

Drive away
or head for the devastation.

Schyma: Oh, my god.

There's an 18-wheeler rig
on its side,

Houses are destroyed,
there's power lines everywhere,

The air smells like gas.

My worst fear is
somebody's buried and trapped.

And so I'm going to just see
if I can find anybody.

You got to help people.
You just got to do it.

At our best, humans
think beyond themselves

And think in terms
of the well-being of others.

And with hank, what we get
is someone at their best,

Looking out for someone else
despite the risk involved.

Schyma: All the vehicles
were empty,

All the houses were empty.

As I'm walking back, I see a
woman standing up in the rubble.

And then I saw
that she was bleeding.

Narrator: That woman, vicky,

Is badly injured
with a gash to her head

And is in shock
at what has just happened.

Hank immediately helps vicky
into his car

And rushes her to the hospital.

Schyma: I've got a woman.
I'm taking her to the hospital.

How you doing back there?
Vicky: I'm good.

She says she's good.

Trying to keep her calm,
and inside, I'm terrified,

I'm thinking, "oh, my gosh,
what's going to happen?"

Narrator: But as they
approach the hospital,

Vicky seems
just as concerned for hank.

Martin: I thought it was
a beautiful prayer,

And I thought it showed that
even in her toughest moment,

She's praying for someone else.

She's trying to pray
for someone who helps her.

Narrator: Vicky recovered
from her injuries,

And she and hank
remained friends.

And the people of canton, texas,
were insanely lucky

As the tornado veered away
from the center of town

At the very last second.

But for hank, memories of
that near-disastrous day

Still linger.

Schyma: I pass through canton a
lot on my way to storm chasing.

There's still those
ghostly reminders.

For the most part,
I'm trying to condition myself

To just back off a little bit.

I don't need to be that close.

Dude, you guys...

Better run.

Narrator: Coming up...
Woman: Oh, my god!

...A dust devil
unleashes its raw fury.

[ screams ]

And massive boulders
barrel down a mountain.

[ screaming ]

Can anyone survive?

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: Picture this.

You're outside.
It's a clear, sunny day.

The weather is calm.

Then out of nowhere, a towering
twister of dust appears

And is heading right for you.

[ screaming ]

You are now in the presence
of a dust devil.

♪♪

So mysterious, so dangerous,
it may as well have been created

By the devil himself.

[ screaming ]

♪♪

January 2, 2019.

Manilla, australia.

Leanne and rick brezina

Are on a two-week
paragliding trip

In the southeastern part
of the country.

We were always into all kinds
of adventure sports,

Outdoor sports.

Leanne: When you're flying,
you just get

A whole new perspective
of the world.

And feel the wind.

You have a 360-degree view
in every direction.

It feels kind of
like a dream.

This was, I think,
like, the seventh day

In a row
that we had been flying.

There was nothing special
about this day whatsoever.

The winds were light,

The sky was clear,
nothing was in the forecast.

Around 11:00 a.M., rick is
strapped into his glider,

Getting ready to launch,

While leanne is filming
from a short distance away

When suddenly, a violent gust of
wind sweeps him off the ground.

It's a dust devil.

[ leanne screaming ]

Leanne watches helplessly.

I felt myself dragged
to the side very suddenly,

As if I had been, like,
hit by a truck or something.

The g-forces were so extreme
that I had gone basically

270 degrees around
in a circle,

And I was facing out
from the mountain.

It happened so quickly.
It was pretty frightening.

I thought
for a second, like,

"I'm not sure how
I'm going to get out of this."

Delgado: A dust devil develops
when you have intense heating

And then you get the rising air.

It's very similar to a tornado

In the fact that it's
a vertically stacked,

Rotating column of air,
but unlike a tornado,

This is something that happens
on a perfectly clear day.

Vagell: They can happen anywhere
that's really -- that's hot

And has relatively
flat, dry ground.

Leanne: Oh, my god!

They can be scary
because they could have winds

That could potentially reach
80 to 100 miles per hour.

Narrator:
Leanne is in utter shock.

I just thought,
like, "oh, my gosh.

Like, he's gonna hit the ground
or he's gonna hit a tree."

I just thought, like,
"I hope he doesn't die."

Martin: It must have been
terrifying to see

Someone you love thrown about
like that, like a rag doll.

There's a sense of loss
of power, loss of control

On a day that was supposed
to be a lot of fun

And turns out to be terrifying.

Narrator: Rick knows he is
facing life or death

And must use all his skill
and experience to survive.

[ leanne screams ]

I was so focused on just
what I had to do.

I thought, "the only
priority right now

Is to try to keep
the glider open."

Leanne: My god!

Because that's the only
safety that you have.

If the glider closes, you're
gonna drop to the ground.

Narrator: As rick struggles
to control his glider,

The dust devil
suddenly turns its attention

To its next victim, leanne.

I thought it was gonna be
a life-and-death event.

But leanne's not
the only one in danger.

Another guy, an older gentleman,
is about to be pulled off.

So it stopped being
about rick

And it started to be
about the next guy.

I just dove on it,
onto his glider

To try and hold it down
so he wouldn't get picked up.

Delgado: Rick's wife was really
kind of the hero of the moment

Because she had the wits to know
that -- seeing this other guy

With the paragliding
equipment on, that

He could have been whipped up
just like her husband.

If she didn't do
what she had,

We're not sure whether he was
holding on to the glider or not.

Who knows what
might have happened?

The name dust devil points
to something,

A figure that is prominent
within scripture.

This demonic force --
it's unpredictable,

It's malicious,
it whirls around,

And there's no way of knowing
when it will stop.

Narrator: Just as fast as
leanne's harrowing ordeal began,

The dust settles.

But she's still fretting about
whether rick has survived.

I was just hysterical,

Just really concerned about
whether he was okay or not.

Leanne: Oh!

No!

It didn't seem like
he could survive such a thing.

Oh, [bleep].

Narrator: Miraculously,
rick escapes without injury.

Let there be no mistake.
I was very, very, very lucky.

Though leanne is anxious
to see him safe on land,

Rick surprisingly has
other plans.

If I land now, I'm just
going to be thinking

And replaying the whole thing
in my head all day.

And I thought to myself,
"if I stay in the air,

I'm going to be focusing
on what I have to do.

And when I finally land,

I will have forgotten
half of the drama."

In fact, despite his
unexpected brush with death,

Rick had an epic day
in the skies.

I actually flew
192 kilometers.

I think it was the second-best
day of the whole trip.

But the havoc this dust devil
caused is one adventure

This couple will never forget.

[ leanne screams ]

I was controlling the glider
through the thing,

But let there be no mistake,

There was a huge amount
of luck involved.

You know, the launch time
is a dangerous time.

I should have been
holding his glider.

So it's better to be safe
and to help each other.

Leanne: No!

It ranks up there as one of
the scariest moments of my life.

[ screams ]

No!

♪♪

Narrator: Coming up...

A violent tsunami of ice
threatens to crush everything.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: We've all seen
the powerful images

Of massive glaciers melting

And boulders of ice
crashing into the sea

From greenland
to iceland to antarctica.

Now imagine seeing a similar
sight traveling across a lake.

Man:
Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Behold the ice tsunami.

♪♪

When it's headed your way...

Okay.

...Watch out.

Man: Back up, back up!
Steve, steve, look out!

♪♪

♪♪

February 24, 2019

On lake erie,
one of the great lakes

That separates the united states
and canada.

In the dead of winter,

Temperatures on the lake can
plummet to -40 degrees,

Causing giant sheets
of ice to form.

But today is special.

In addition to the thick ice,

The area is expecting
hurricane-force winds

That will cause an extreme
weather phenomenon

Known as an ice shelf.

I'm george kourounis,
I'm a professional explorer

That documents
extreme forces of nature.

I love the unpredictability
because you never know

What you're gonna experience.

I was looking at the forecast
and noticed that there was gonna

Be very strong winds
coming across lake erie,

Blowing over top of all the
floating ice that was out there.

Narrator: And so george and his
colleague steve head to the lake

To capture footage of this
exciting event firsthand.

Kourounis:
The wind was blowing along the
full length of lake erie.

The winds were up
around hurricane-force gusts.

I had never seen lake erie
move like this before.

Narrator: George and steve
find a park along the lake

To set up their cameras,

As they've done
many times before,

But this time is different.

As soon as we got to the park,
there were mountains of ice.

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Everywhere you looked,
it just took on this bizarre,

Otherworldly feel.

♪♪

Narrator: Instantly,
the two men are confronted

With the extreme elements.

Getting the wind in your face.

You're getting that
tremendous wind chill.

Narrator: And as the incredible
scene unfolds before them,

They are humbled by the power
of mother nature.

It's a completely
surreal situation.

It felt like it was
something out of an

Early 1990s disaster movie.

I've been to the arctic.
I've been to antarctica.

I've seen lots of ice,

But I've never seen ice
behave like this before.

Kourounis:
Right there. Uh-oh.

Narrator: The ice chunks are now
moving with tremendous speed.

And even the one wrong move
could spell disaster.

The men inch towards the water.

Kourounis: We're trying to get
a little bit closer,

Trying to see what's going on.

So we literally couldn't have
gotten any closer to the ice.

These things were moving
pretty fast.

And as the ice
was coming ashore,

It was acting in some really
unpredictable manner.

It wasn't subtle
or gradual at all.

It was violent.

Delgado: When you see this wall
of ice coming towards you,

It's almost like an avalanche.

It's just incredible.

How much higher is it
going to go?

How much bigger are
the pieces is going to be?

Vagell: An ice shelf,

Which is sometimes referred to
as an ice tsunami,

Usually happens in mid-to-late
winter or early spring

When ice begins to melt
and break down,

And if there's enough wind,
the ice keeps piling up.

It's fascinating,

But at the same time,
it can also be destructive.

Kourounis: Some of these
ice chunks were the size of

Your coffee table or larger,
the size of a couch.

And we're not talking
about soft cushions.

Right there.

1,000 cubic feet can weigh
over 50,000 pounds or 25 tons,

So basically,
these chunks of ice --

They could weigh
more than a car.

The folks in this footage are
definitely in danger...

Right there.

...Because there's a very
real possibility

They could be severely
injured or killed.

Steve, watch out,
watch out.

Narrator:
Suddenly, the men learn

Just how life-threatening their
situation really is.

Steve, watch out,
watch out.

♪♪

Kourounis:
The next thing I know,

There's huge chunks of ice

Where we had been standing
only mere seconds previous.

Yeah. Got another one
coming now.

Narrator: But that was
just a warning.

Here we go. Here we go.
Here we go.

Steve behind the camera
to georgia's left

Is right in the line of fire,
and he doesn't even know it.

Kourounis: I was very
concerned for him

Because he was in between me
and the ice.

Back up.

I thought he was in danger,
and I wanted to make sure

That he was able
to get out of the way in time.

Back up, back up!
Steve, steve, look out!

♪♪

Whoa!

Narrator: Miraculously,
thanks to george,

Steve is able to avoid getting
pummeled by the ice,

Though george doesn't
see himself as the hero.

I don't feel that I saved anyone
that day at all.

It was just a matter of
looking out for your teammates.

Narrator: Still, both men know
this could have been the end.

Back up, back up!
Steve, steve, look out!

Kourounis: It would have
absolutely been game over

If one of these blocks of ice

Had hit one of us
directly in the head or chest.

Steve, watch out,
watch out.

It's really easy to forget
how powerful nature is

And how small we can be next to
a big storm or an earthquake

Or any dramatic force of nature
that we call a disaster.

Steve, watch out,
watch out!

There's no photo, there's no
piece of video worth dying for.

Back up! Back up!

Back up, back up!
Steve, steve, look out!

♪♪

Narrator: Coming up,
a vicious rockslide...

[ screaming ]

...Wreaks havoc on the innocent.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: A landslide is
one of planet earth's

Ugliest calamities.

Thousands of pounds of dirt,
rock, and debris

Cascading downhill...

[ screaming ]

...Leading to nothing
but sheer devastation.

It's a vicious monster that
can strike anytime, anywhere,

When you least expect it.

Is there any escape,
or will this be...

[ screaming ]

...The end?

♪♪

November 4, 2018.

Benguet in the philippines.

It's a quiet autumn afternoon
in the cordillera mountains

On the filipino island
of luzon, north of manila.

On a bus, passengers are making
their way around a bend

When the driver
senses trouble up ahead.

♪♪

One passenger begins to film

As a few rocks and boulders
careen down.

♪♪

And then...

Landslide.

♪♪

Delgado: You're on this bus

And you're enjoying
the scenery of the mountain,

And then all of a sudden,
the rocks start

To fall in front of you,
and they're falling,

They're falling faster
and they're getting louder.

Can you imagine how terrifying

That must have been
to be on that bus?

What that really is,
is when a piece of land moves

As a result of weight or soils
becoming saturated by water.

Each one of those rocks
that falls

Removes support for other rocks.

Vagell:
It's like a ripple effect.

Next thing you know,
there's this whole wall of rocks

And dirt and debris and trees
just sliding down a hill.

It's really scary
how it happens.

Narrator: With no time
to back up, the bus is trapped.

♪♪

Will the passengers
be crushed...

Or buried alive?

♪♪

[ screaming ]

A massive boulder has just
pelted the top of the bus.

♪♪

The bus begins to back up

As the passengers
enter full panic mode.

[ screaming ]

Abbott: Those individual rocks
weigh several tons each.

Nobody would have a chance
of surviving

Had you been hit by that.

They're massive boulders,
but any rock that's moving

At a good amount of speed
could really hurt you.

It's definitely scary.

[ screaming ]

♪♪

Narrator:
As horrifying as it is,

At least the travelers
were protected inside the bus.

But look again at the moments
before disaster struck.

There's a man standing right
in front of the mayhem.

Delgado: Look at this guy
on the side of the road.

He's filming this rockslide.

Hello. This is dangerous.
Get out of the way.

The instinct might be
to get your camera out

Or maybe start filming it,
but it only takes a few seconds

For that initial crumbling
of rocks and pebbles

To escalate
into this huge rockslide,

So you don't want to be
anywhere near that.

♪♪

Narrator: Luckily,
no one was injured,

But the survivors on that bus

Are sure to never forget
this harrowing event.

The trauma after this sort of
experience is real.

I'm sure many of the people
on that bus will have felt,

"wow, we survived this,
and god was with us."

♪♪

Abbott: That was a
fatal encounter avoided.

That would have been
a truly messy event

Had that bus been caught up
in that avalanche.

Mother nature at work. She can
really be overpowering at times.

[ screaming ]

So, it's doomsday.

What would you do
if you were caught

In one of the most
devastating hurricanes ever,

Surrounded by gushing rivers
of molten lava...

This is insane.

...Trapped in the sinister path
of a mile-wide twister...

Oh, my god!

...Or flung through the air
by a vicious dust devil?

Oh, my god!

Just hope and pray you live
to tell about it.

Oh, god.

♪♪

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