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Confines of the tunnel. >> lets do it right once. >> but fear overwhelms suelina when she learns she must make the journey to the opening alone. >> everything happens very quickly and jay says i cannot come with you. i cant. they cant pull both of us out. >> theres a high level of anxiety there. you know weve got a vick still who is not responding to us verbally. she didnt want to move. she was afraid she was going to die. she was in a very dark place. >> youve got to talk to me. please, stop ta...

The blood, and a bruised back. in hindsight, i was incredibly lucky. i walked out of the hospital the next day. >> teds brush with death leaves a permanent and profound impact on his life. he continues to jump, but hes dialed back the risky maneuvers. >> im more focused on really smooth, stable jumps. just enjoying the acceleration and the wind in your face and flying a wing suit, most especially. sports that involve a high amount of risk usually have a really high payoff. theyre usually incredi...

>> almost want to say that when we got on the ground, it got tougher because thats when the media showed up. and i mean it was a swarm. and then the mayor comes up, hands you his phone and says vice president gore is on the line. he was watching from washington i guess and called to congratulate us. so you know nothing like the vice president of the united states calling to add to your nervousness. >> the media celebrates a happy ending to an incredible rescue. and ivers sims is changed forever....

Once i had the dog in my arms, it didnt move. it actually tucked itself even closer, and it could have crawled inside, it probably would have, thats how scared the dog was. >> mcginnis takes slow steps across the face of the cliff and hands lola off to a waiting firefighter. cespedes attaches himself to ivan and they begin their descent down the steep slope. but they encounter problems as soon as they begin. the rope line gets snagged. cespedes must tug on the line which in turn sends debris str...

Training, and firepower, the redcoats think this will be an easy victory, but their arrogance will be costly. though the americans militias lack british discipline, rather than run, as general howe expects, they stand their ground and fight. >> hey! hey! how many rounds do you have left? >> only three! >> eventually, the patriots are forced to retreat, but only because theyve run out of ammunition. >> men, stop! we must stand our ground. >> the day is ours!

It definitely would have been a fatal fall. >> march 4th, 2011. two workers must face their worst fears when a scaffold collapses outside an apartment building in yonkers, new york. a news helicopter captures the dramatic scene as the men dangle in the cold winter temperatures. yonkers fire chief john flynn and firefighter mike juro assess the dire situation. >> one guy is actually hanging on the scaffolding, standing on top of it. and the second victim is below him, beneath the scaffolding, pro...

At this point bill has been dropped off by the helicopter and is sitting at the boat at the bottom of the cliff nervously awaiting the bears arrival. >> i knew we werent out of the woods until we had it down off that cliff. everything was looking very well that we were going to get that bear down and at that point we were thinking well get it into the boat. about halfway down, of course, thats when everything started to fall apart. >> the polar bears enormous side and slick coat are just enough ...

Potentially deadly fall. >> he was just so physically tired that he probably wasnt going to last much longer on that hillside. >> december 29th, 2011. ivan solace and his father are walking ivans dog lola in lopez canyon, california, when the canine faces a bottle thrown over the side of the hill. >> the dog went down there got stuck, wasnt able to come back up and ivan wanted to go and try to get him. >> but ivans impulse to rescue his four-legged friend takes a frightening turn. >> the slope b...

Ride into town on an arctic ice flow and decides to camp out on a cliff just steps away from a fishing village. >> we cant allow a polar bear to walk through an area especially a populated like st. john. because it will encounter people. >> when the people of newfoundland need help with wild animals, they turn to 30-year wildlife enforcement veteran bill collins. >> i received a call at my office that there was a polar bear. grabbed my drugs and my darting equipment and head down here to see if ...

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