People overcome impossible odds where others surrendered and failed.
What would you do if you were stranded or trapped in a situation where
you had to fight for your life? When the Worst Happens is a collection
of intense, true stories set in distant corners of the earth. - A
massive cave-in traps 19-year-old Jimmy Sanchez and 32 other Chilean
miners deep below the earth. - Twelve-year-old Bala and his two sisters
must survive on a tiny island off the Australian coast after their boat
capsizes. - When her plane crashes in the Peruvian jungle, 17-year-old
Juliane struggles to find help. In extreme situations such as these,
people can pull together, show almost super-human skill, and survive.
But sometimes they face madness, greed or mutiny. These action-packed
accounts reveal the critical decisions that determined the fate of each
victim. In an attempt to answer the question why people react the way
they do in extreme circumstances, When the Worst Happens also looks at
modern psychological studies, interesting historical details and
settings, as well as seemingly unrelated events, to discover what draws
the line between success and tragedy.