4.23 avg rating — 65,108 ratings

"My climbing buddy cut the rope and left me for dead, so I had to crawl down the mountain on my broken legs."

4.14 avg rating — 82,381 ratings

"My plane crashed in the high Andes, and we're going to have to eat the dead to survive."

4.09 avg rating — 10,759 ratings

"My ship ran aground in Nazi-occupied Norway in the middle of an Arctic winter."

4.17 avg rating — 119,771 ratings

"A whale ate my ship, so now I might be eaten by my shipmates."

4.19 avg rating — 8,526 ratings

"Oh no! Scott of the Antarctic is dead, and he was in charge!"

3.85 avg rating — 23,783 ratings

"My hand is jammed in a hole in a rock in the middle of the desert!"

4.29 avg rating — 823 ratings

"I'm 270m underwater in the bottom of a cave, looking for the body of the last guy who was here."

4.10 avg rating — 4,533 ratings

"Aaargh! I'm climbing the Mordwand of the Eiger."

4.46 avg rating — 168,889 ratings

"My ship is stuck in the ice and I'll have to row across the Southern Ocean to get my crew rescued."

4.12 avg rating — 119,416 ratings

"Oh, what an interesting synoptic chart. You mean that's headed our way?"

3.55 avg rating — 2,622 ratings

"I'm stuck on a rock in the middle of the ocean. I'd be better off dead."

3.98 avg rating — 50,072 ratings

"Its' the end of the world as we know it."

4.33 avg rating — 119 ratings

"So when the exocet failed to detonate in the magazine of the ship, guess who was volunteered to defuse it."

4.37 avg rating — 27,006 ratings

"My plane crashed in the high Andes, and we're going to have to eat the dead to survive."

3.94 avg rating — 1,760,767 ratings

"The Bengal tiger in my rowing boat is trying to fight the shark circling round us."