Dewey Gaedcke was in Hawaii as a last-minute concierge favour when a friend told him about a volcano worth seeing at night. Five days later, he was rescued by a teenager in a tourist helicopter. The park service had already told his family he was probably dead.

Dewey Gaedcke is known for surviving one of the most extraordinary ordeals in recent memory — five days lost on a remote lava field in Hawaii without water, proper footwear, or any idea where he was.

  • The small decisions that compounded into a survival situation — an hour-and-a-half hike, a pair of jogging shoes, and no water
  • What it actually feels like to be lost with no landmarks, no path, and no signal
  • How he kept himself alive in conditions that should have killed him
  • The footage he recorded for his daughters in case he didn't make it
  • How a teenager in a tourist helicopter found him after the park service had already told his family to prepare for the worst


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