Category: Inspiring News

Yoga Instructor Stranded in Sierras for 48 Hours Uses Meditation to Survive in Freezing Temperatures

California yoga instructor and hiking enthusiast Jolly Bose had planned with two hiking friends to summit Mt. Givens in the Sierras on an 8-mile trip that should have taken just four hours to complete. But when the ambitious hiker on Oct. 17 became separated from her companions, the trip turned into an over-48-hour struggle to…


Elderly Man Walking 2 Dogs Suffers Seizure—Then Black Lab Rushes to Bring Hiker to Save His Life

A loyal black Labrador displayed remarkable behavior when its elderly owner collapsed while on a walk in Braithwaite How, UK. The 71-year-old man was out on his own with his two dogs in late October when, a few minutes after passing another hiker, he suffered an apparent seizure, Keswick Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) stated. One…


Gold Hunters Unearth 100-Year-Old Dredge Ship From North Carolina Gold Rush in Creek Bed

In Nash County, North Carolina, a father-son treasure-hunting duo bought a piece of land in 2016 on the exact spot where the Portis Gold Mine once operated from 1835 during the North Carolina Gold Rush—America’s first real gold rush. Adventure was in store there, Tim Fisher, 60, and his son Ross, 31, knew. They started…


Robert Irwin Posts Funny Photo Series After His Baby Niece ‘Takes Over the Selfie’

In a series of funny photos, baby Grace Warrior, the newest member of the renowned Irwin family, can be seen grabbing the phone as her doting uncle, Robert Irwin, snaps pictures of the pair together. Robert, 17, shared the adorable series on Instagram on Nov. 12, writing: “When Grace takes over the selfie!” The sweet photos…


Tens of Millions of Red Crabs Form Scarlet Sea as They Migrate Across Christmas Island to Spawn in Ocean

Nature lovers each year flock to Christmas Island, Australia, around late November to witness a scarlet sea of tens of millions of red crabs migrating down from the forest to mate and spawn on the shoreline. Male red crabs set out on the journey first, triggered by the first rainfall of the wet season; they…


2 Sisters Re-create an Adorable Photo From Their Childhood When They Played ‘Pregnant’

Two sisters got pregnant at the same time, enabling them to re-create an adorable childhood photo where they had balloons up their dresses, dreaming of becoming mothers. Bri Dietz, 35, and her sister, Chaulet Barba, 33, were ecstatic when they discovered they were both expecting. “It was so special to go through it together. It…


National Geographic Photographer Captures Sublime Shots of Two Worlds Above and Below the Sea

National Geographic photographer David Doubilet’s journey of creating his signature “above and below the sea” shots began three decades ago in Grand Cayman. It was there that two worlds converged on either side of a razor-thin molecular border between sky and sea. Above were the “impossibly blue skies and billowing clouds;” below, the surreal, “sun-dappled…


Student Who Was Pronounced Dead After College Fire Survives, Starts Fire Safety Nonprofit to Help Others

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS IMAGES THAT SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTURBING. A college student who survived a campus fire that killed five is learning to live as a burn survivor. After 32 surgeries, he insists on seeing the beauty in life and has started a fire safety nonprofit called “Brighter Than the Fire” to help…


Largest Gold Nugget Found in Alaska Weighs 20 Pounds—to Fetch $700,000 to 1.2 Million at Auction

The largest gold nugget ever found in Alaska is set to be auctioned in Texas in December and is expected to fetch over $700,000. In the summer of 1896, over 100,000 prospectors descended upon northwestern Canada after gold was found near the Klondike River. About 100 years later, in 1998, a prospector named Barry Clay—so the…


‘1 Percent Chance’ Baby Whose Mom Refused Abortion at 20 Weeks Thrives: ‘Raise Awareness’

A pregnant mom whose waters broke at 20 weeks was urged to abort. Refusing termination, she delivered her baby son 10 weeks later, and her little fighter has thrived despite being given a 1 percent chance of survival. Mom-of-three Ann Rice, 36, from Cardiff, Wales, in the UK, was told she would miscarry naturally within…