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Among those interviewed are Venus Dergan and Roald Reitan, who were caught in the midst of one of the century's most destructive natural disasters -- the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Although they were 30 miles from the mountain, the two campers were swept away in a 100-mile-per-hour mud flow and nearly crushed by uprooted trees and logs from devastated logging camps. Even those in the sky are not safe, as viewers learn when the program looks at how the Indonesian volcano Galunggung sent a plume of ash into the atmosphere in 1982, nearly downing a jetliner full of passengers, who describe how the ash-choked engines failed and sent them plummeting toward the ground. But the human spirit is indomitable: Others, in Iceland and Hawaii, tell how they fought lava attacking their homes, and won.
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