Showing real-life events from across the globe, using footage from the rescuers themselves, Extreme Rescues challenges traditional survival stories. In this episode, a kayaker in New Zealand fights to save his drowning friend, French snowboarders race against time as they try to find their friend buried in an avalanche, and a helicopter crew in Canada is called to rescue a hiker on a remote peak.

Extreme Rescues tells dramatic real-life stories from across the globe using footage captured by the rescuers themselves. In this episode tourists struggle to stay afloat and find loved ones after a capsize in rough seas. Friends search for an expectant father who lost control of his BMX and plunged off a cliff, and an injured caver is trapped so far underground the only way out involves dynamite.

In this episode of Extreme Rescues, a team sent to recover bodies from a wreck on the seafloor gets a shock when one man is found alive. How will they get him out before his air pocket runs out? A hiker must rescue his friend who’s being dragged over a waterfall, and summiting one of the world’s most iconic mountains almost ends in tragedy.

In this episode, a rescue team fights through a storm to reach a fishman whose hand has been ripped through a winch. A helicopter crew plucks an injured mountaineer from an ice cliff, only to discover he’s still attached to the climb ropes. And a party of mountain climbers is torn apart when a crevasse opens up, swallowing one.