Tales of entrapment: Most survivors manage to go on with their lives

Associated Press Nicholas White can hardly avoid elevators, nor does he want to after he was stranded in one for 41 hours in 1999 at Rockefeller Center’s McGraw-Hill Building in New York.

Associated Press Jonathan Metz speaks at a news conference at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn., about his attempt at self-amputating his left arm after it became stuck this summer while he was repairing a furnace in his home. Metz now has an artificial limb and is about to return to his job...

Associated Press Randy Knapp poses on the summit of South Sister near Bend, Ore. Knapp was a teenager when he spent 13 nights trapped in a whiteout on Oregon’s Mount Hood. Thirty-three years later, he’s still climbing.