SOS: How to Survive

A young couple go off a trail for a photo and can't find their way back, and their 3-day attempt to hike down extreme mountainous terrain leads them into a dead-end canyon.

The Kim family takes a wrong turn and gets stuck in the snow on a logging road; with two infant children and no real knowledge about mountains and frigid temperatures the family's situation turns desperate.

A record storm surge created a river that surrounds the Yorks' house; Superstorm Sandy tosses Kim Joyce and her cats into its churning waters; a wind-whipped storm surge from Hurricane Ike hammers the home of Carole Hamadey.

Rick McFarland and Cathy Frye take off for a one-day hike in the Texas desert, lose their way and become desperately dehydrated; when Cathy is overcome and can no longer move, Rick becomes their only hope of getting out alive.

Rulon Gardner gets soaked when his snowmobile is stuck in a river, and, with temperatures plunging to 25 below zero, he faces death; Mike Vilhauer ventures into the woods, but loses his way back, and spends days trekking through the rugged terrain.

John Sain breaks his leg far off the trail, and believes his only choice is a slow death or a quick one; on a three-hour hike in the Joshua Tree desert, realtor Ed Rosenthal becomes lost, and runs out of water in the 100-degree heat.