
Personal stories of those caught up in sometimes deadly natural catastrophes, accompanied by camera footage showing meteorological phenomena, including hurricanes, earthquakes, monsoons and more.

Hurricane Michael rips across the Florida panhandle, trapping a storm chaser; the UK coast guard battles gale force winds to save fishermen stranded on the hull of their capsized trawler; an adventurer suffers extreme heat stroke in the Gobi Desert.

As the deadliest wildfire in Californian history tears across the state, one man battles the flames in a bid to save his home; a tornado tears apart a woman's home in Arkansas; in Uruguay, a helicopter rescue team tries to reach a trapped canoeist.

A twister traps teachers and pupils at an American school; wildfires rip across the moors in the north of England; in Argentina, a trek nearly ends in tragedy for a group of hikers; in Africa, a man is on a mission to descend into a volcano.

A record-breaking cyclone wrecks South Pacific islands; a cruise ship becomes stranded in a storm; two friends get caught in a deadly avalanche.