Jacques Cousteau is watching nervously on the bridge of his ship Calypso as it slowly makes it way through a maze of razor-sharp coral towards the mysterious Blue Hole. One wrong move and the coral could slice open the hull. Then the whole ship juddered and came to a halt ...
Francis Chichester is sailing in Gipsy Moth IV in the pitch black of night towards the dreaded Cape Horn. Here the winds howl and the waters of the Southern Ocean crowd together and rush through the gap between South America and Antarctica. It is the place that sends a shiver down the spine of even the most hardened sailor.
Neil Armstrong and his fellow astronaut, Dave Scott, are in big trouble. Their Gemini spacecraft is tumbling and rolling, spinning once every second. As Neil fights to control the spacecraft his vision blurs and he is close to losing consciousness. To find out what happened read Tumbling in Orbit - Neil Armstrong and the Gemini 8 Mission, the tenth story in the nonfiction serial, Into Danger with the Adventurers - Twelve Epic Lives of the Twentieth Century.
Alexei Leonov has completed the first ever spacewalk. But as he reaches the airlock he realises his suit has expanded in the vacuum of space. He cannot fit inside. He is trapped outside the spacecraft. And in a few minutes Voskhod 2 will be crossing into the pitch black of night.
Red Adair is in a converted caterpillar truck inching towards a towering fire at an exploded gas well in the Sahara Desert. He intends to extinguish it by placing high explosive at its base. But will it explode before he has time to retreat to safety? To find out what happens read Inferno in the Desert - Red Adair and the Gassi Touil Gas Fire, the eighth story in the gripping weekly serial, Into Danger with the Adventurers - Twelve Epic Lives of the Twentieth Century.
Jacques Piccard is thousands of metres below the sea in his tiny deep-sea submersible heading towards the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean. Then he and his companion, Don Walsh, hear an ominous crack and feel their craft shudder. To find out what happens read Cracking Under Pressure - Jacques Piccard and the Descent to Challenger Deep, the seventh story in the gripping weekly serial, Into Danger with the Adventurers - Twelve Epic Lives of the Twentieth Century.
George Adamson is hunting for a man-eating lion which had been attacking villagers in the plains of Africa. Then, a lioness leaps out of nowhere and charges towards a fellow game warden. It seems certain he will not survive.
The first ascent of Everest in 1953 by Hillary and Tenzing was an epochal moment in mountaineering history. The news of the ascent lit up the gloom of the post-war world and was a fitting start to the reign of Elizabeth II, the news reaching London and the rest of the British Commonwealth on the eve of the Coronation.
The dramatic voyage of Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki is a story all children should know about. It was full of danger and adventure, but none more so than when a man fell overboard into the shark-infested waters of the Pacific … To find out what happens read, Man Overboard - Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition, the fourth story in the gripping weekly serial, Into Danger with the Adventurers - Twelve Epic Lives of the Twentieth Century.
Alone in his tiny plane, the Spirit of St Louis, Charles Lindbergh is flying solo above the Atlantic en route from New York to Paris. But he cannot see beyond the enveloping clouds and ice is building up on the wings …To find out what happens read, Visibility Zero - Charles Lindbergh and the First Nonstop Solo Flight Across the Atlantic, the third story in the gripping weekly serial, Into Danger with the Adventurers - Twelve Epic Lives of the Twentieth Century.
Jacques Cousteau is watching nervously on the bridge of his ship Calypso as it slowly makes it way through a maze of razor-sharp coral tow
Francis Chichester is sailing in Gipsy Moth IV in the pitch black of night towards the dreaded Cape Horn.