One Earthquake, Then Another: Chaos on Mount Logan

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Documentary, Society & Culture, Wilderness, Sports, History

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Earthquakes, avalanches and a superstorm combine atop Canada’s highest peak. And we meet the intrepid soul who endured it all. Natalia Martínez has mountaineering in her blood. But during a solo trip up Mount Logan, a once-in-a-generation phenomenon will see her face her greatest challenge yet. Time and time again, she’ll have to call on all her grit and experience as she locks horns with the immense powers of Mother Nature… A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins. Written by Duncan Barrett | Produced by Ed Baranski | Assistant Producer: Luke Lonergan | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design by Matt Peaty | Assembly edit by Rob Plummer | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Ralph Tittley. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at support@noiser.com Our sister podcast Short History Of… has a new book! Pre-order your copy of A Short History of Ancient Rome now at noiser.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	I'm Julie Andrews, and it is my great pleasure to bring you Jane Austen Stories,
0:36.5	the new show from the Noisiser Podcast Network. I'll be
0:40.9	reading Pride and Prejudice. We'll walk grand estates and take tea with well-dressed gentlewomen,
0:49.1	but in this tranquil corner of England, not everything is quite as it appears.
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1:03.6	It is May 1st, 2017.
1:07.0	May Day.
1:08.5	A celebratory day in Europe, marking the start of summer.
1:15.5	But across the Atlantic in Canada, high in the upper echelons of Mount Logan, the weather
1:20.4	is far from inviting and the mood far from festive.
1:25.3	A harsh, hammering gale howls across the second highest peak in North America.
1:30.3	And climber Natalia Martinez is camped out on a ridge.
1:36.3	Her flimsy gray tent is pitched just meters from a deep crevasse in the ice.
1:43.3	Natalia has earmarked this alarming-looking pit as a last-ditch refuge
1:49.0	if her tent doesn't survive the next few hours.
1:55.0	At 4,000 meters above sea level, the view here is truly extraordinary.
2:00.0	The St. Elias mountain range stretches for 300 miles, a panoramic vista of rocky pyramids
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