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Series 6: Episode 3
Nick Knowles introduces ordinary people who have survived extraordinary near misses, featuring real-time CCTV and phone recordings plus the dramatic accounts of both rescuers and rescued. \n\nIn this episode an adventurous pensioner is lost on Ben Nevis in a howling snow storm, and a van driver skids on black ice to end up teetering on the very edge of a motorway bridge.
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