Adventures Gone Wrong
Welcome to Adventures Gone Wrong — a podcast where outdoor adventures take a turn, survival is optional, and questionable decisions are part of the journey.
I’m Stacie, your chaos-loving storyteller from the Yukon. I dig into real-life tales of risk, resilience, and what happens when the wilderness doesn’t go according to plan.
Some stories will make you laugh. Some will make you say “WHY would they do that?!” All of them will make you glad it wasn’t you.
Adventures Gone Wrong
Latest Episodes
Andrée's 1897 Arctic Balloon Expedition
In 1897, a Swedish engineer convinced a king, a Nobel Prize winner, and an entire nation to fund the most ambitious plan in exploration history, flying a hydrogen balloon to the North Pole. He had never tested the balloon in Arctic conditions. ...
Murder Wall: The 1936 Eiger Tragedy
The north face of the Eiger had a reputation so bad it got a nickname.Mordwand. The Murder Wall. By 1936, it had already killed several climbers, and nobody had ever made it to the top. Four young climbers - two German, two Aust...
Mount Logan 1987: The Ridge That's Only Been Climbed Once
In May 1987, two of the world's best climbers - Dave Cheesmond and Catherine Freer - attempted the Hummingbird Ridge on Mount Logan, Canada's highest mountain. Between them, they'd climbed Everest, K2, and El Capitan. They were the best of the ...
The Most Bizarre Olympic Disaster Ever: The 1904 Marathon
The 1904 St. Louis Olympic Marathon might be the most disastrous sporting event in history. Thirty-two men started. Only fourteen finished. The winner was given rat poison and brandy to keep him moving. Barefoot runners were chased off-course b...
Annapurna: Why Does the Deadliest Mountain Now Have a Waiting Line?
Annapurna was the first 8,000-meter peak ever climbed, three years before Everest. It should have been a triumph. Instead, the climbers who made history lost every finger and toe getting back down.75 years later, Annapurna is still taki...