Ricky Stover, survivor of the Moore tornado (May 20, 2013) in the Oklahoma City area, shares that moment that he felt sure he was dying. Hear about that frightening moment and see the utter destruction by his home. The Moore tornado had peak winds of 210 miles per hour; 25 people were killed and 377 injured.

In this first person account, Henry Cookson and his rowdy crew finally reach the bust of Lenin, which marks the Antarctic Pole of Inaccessability, and decide to do some ironing while they're there. The four men travel to the Pole of Inaccessability in Antarctica, one of the most difficult places in the world to reach.

In this first person account, a member of the arctic exploration Team N2i is filming their journey as they are kite ski from the Antarctic Coastline to the center of the continent in 2007. Henry Cookson and his crew of three other men went on a record-breaking 1,100 mile kite skiing expedition to the center of Antarctica, also known as the Pole of Inaccessibility.

Henry Cookson and his crew took a 1,100 mile trek to the Southern pole of inaccessibility from the Antarctic coastline. In this first hand account, the light hearted experience of the expedition comes out as the crew shows how they spend their time on this journey. The Pole of Inaccessibility is one of the hardest points to reach geographically in the world.

Explorer Henry Cookson explains the sensation of being alone in the vastness of Antarctica while traveling to the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility with his companions. Cookson and Rory Sweet, Paul Landry, and Rupert Longsdon set out on December 4, 2006 and traveled over 1,100 miles to reach the Pole without mechanical assistance on January 1, 2007.

Ricky Stover, survivor of the Moore tornado on May 20, 2013 in the Oklahoma City area, shares that moment that he felt sure he was dying. Hear about that frightening moment and see the utter destruction by his home. The Moore tornado had peak winds of 210 miles per hour; 25 people were killed and 377 injured.

‘In the Bay of Biscay there was a long & continued swell & the misery I endured from sea-sickness is far far beyond what I ever guessed at.— I believe you are curious about it. I will give all my dear-bought experience.—Nobody who has only been to sea for 24 hours has a right to say, that sea-sickness is even uncomfortable.—The real misery only begins when you are so exhausted—that a little exertion makes a feeling of faintness come on.— I found nothing but lying in my hammock did me any good."

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94 year old Leonard "Woody" Woodward recalls a new Scout's first snipe hunt at Boy Scout Camp in 1924 and explains the different pranks he and other Scouts played on each other at the camp. The Boy Scouts were founded on February 8, 1910 and more than 110 million Americans have participated in the program since it was created as part of the international Scout Movement.

A survivor of Typhoon Haiyan tells the story of a woman she met at a relief site that lost her children and family in the disaster. The survivor’s first person account shows that the young woman had lost her family to the Typhoon and only hopes to have proper graves for them. Typhoon Haiyan, known as Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, was an exceptionally powerful tropical cyclone that devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines, in early November 2013. It is the deadliest Philippine typhoon on record, killing at least 6,166 people in that country alone.

Pacquiao, Filipino professional boxer, announces that he will be fighting his next match in remembrance of those lost in his home country to Typhoon Haiyan. This first person account shows Pacquiao’s focus in the midst of the tragedy. Typhoon Haiyan, known as Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, was an exceptionally powerful tropical cyclone that devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines, in early November 2013. It is the deadliest Philippine typhoon on record, killing at least 6,166 people in that country alone.