Peru, 1985. With Joe Simpson hanging over a cliff in a storm, his partner Simon Yates cut the rope. Everyone believed Simpson was dead. Three days later he crawled back into base camp on a broken leg.
In 1984, divers searching Wast Water for a missing French student found a bundle that had been in the lake for eight years. The Lady in the Lake case: Margaret Hogg, her pilot husband, and the deep water that almost kept her.
In 1967, a man climbed through a window in Bristol and left a palm print on the glass. Fifty-eight years later, DNA from a blue skirt kept in an evidence box finally gave it a name.