Filed by KOSU News in Art & Life.
July 20, 2011

All of the survival challenges I’ve been faced with so far in my life were about on the level of the time I locked myself in my basement without a cellphone. I’m not a danger-seeker, and I’ve always been a little suspicious of people who are. But those forced to struggle for their very survival — due to the cruelty of others, or freak weather, or strange twists of fate — earn my unqualified awe, an awe that multiplies exponentially when the people thus tested are teenagers or even mere children. Here are three electrifying stories of very young people surviving very bad things. [Copyright 2011 National Public Radio]