Most Pause-Worthy Moment On Gold Rush: Parker's Trail

The crew — Parker Schnabel, Karla Ann Charlton, medic Fred Lewis, and camera operator Sam Brown — offer to help a local family dig their vein out from under a huge landslide. They pump water from a nearby reservoir to try and wash the debris away, but a makeshift dam breaks, and Schnabel is knocked off his feet by the rushing stream and sent head over heels down the muddy crevasse. The sequence, available to watch on YouTube, includes the terrifying jumble of sky, mud, and flailing limbs from his body camera as he is carried away, along with his muffled grunts and the sound of the rushing water.

Lewis and Brown bravely follow Schnabel and are able to pull him free after he manages to stop his slide. Covered in wet mud and still coughing water from his lungs, Schabel wheezes, "That went from like zero to 100 in a very short amount of time." Schnabel manages to escape with nothing worse than a couple of smashed fingers, but Brown says he feared much worse. "That was a very close call. Honestly, I thought he was a goner." The team quickly rallies to get Schnabel dry and warm, who says he "hadn't felt this out of control of a situation in a very long time ... it would have taken one rock to knock me out and that would have been a very different story."