The runners laughed, hydrated and stretched as the wind whipped the sand on the man-made dunes standing between them and the rippling Atlantic Ocean. More than 150 competitors signed up for the first ...

The mixture, which is a combination of sand and water, typically occurs in areas near water — but it can also be found in deserts Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working ...

Quicksand has been a favorite trope in Hollywood movies for years. Many think of quicksand as being able to engulf humans whole in a matter of a seconds, but does it work that way? Quicksand is formed ...

For the first 20 minutes that 34-year-old hiker Ryan Osmun was stuck in quicksand, he thought everything would be all right. “I pretty much thought it was mud,” Osmun says now, six months after he ...

If stumbling into quicksand ranks on your list of worries, don't panic. You won't sink in—at least not all the way. Real quicksand is certainly hard to get out of, but it doesn't suck people under the ...

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Rescues worked for thirty minutes to pull children from quicksand in Washington. March 29, 2011— -- Four young adventurers in Spokane, Wash., didn't have to look far to find adventure—and it ...