A mine collapse left 33 miners trapped a half-mile below the surface in an underground shelter. It would take an international team of rescuers 69 days to save them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Doctors said Fauja Singh may never walk. So they’d be pretty surprised to learn that he became the first 100-year-old to run a marathon, and the oldest known person to run a marathon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Give Tarrare lizards, snakes, and a squirming eel, he’ll eat those too… along with rocks, bandages, and trash. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Maybe robots will take over the world. Maybe they’ll just help us drum really, really well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Separated from his climbing group in a whiteout, no one thought Dr. Beck Weathers would make it back to camp. But he lived to tell his tale, and see it on the big screen with the 2015 film ‘Everest.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Getti Kehayova decided that the best way to honor her late sister, a world record-breaking hula-hooper, was to set a record for spinning the World’s Biggest Hula-Hoop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Considered one of the most versatile athletes of all time, Jim Thorpe went to the 1912 Olympics and dominated. Not only did he win gold medals, he won the approval of his girlfriend’s parents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gymnast Brittany Walsh wanted to do something different, so she trained herself to shoot arrows with her feet — and she didn’t stop there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On a solo journey across the Atlantic, Steve Callahan was forced into his inflatable liferaft. He spent the next two and half months adrift at sea, waiting to be rescued. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After years of chronic pain, pro motocross racer Chris Ridgway requested to have his left leg amputated. But that didn’t stop him from racing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Setting 20 stunt people on fire was all in a day's work for Emmy-winning stunt coordinator Rowley Irlam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
While a school building burned just yards behind them, rival football teams from Deerfield Academy and the Mt. Hermon School for Boys played on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A blocked road. Then a flat tire. Trapped at the bottom of a canyon with a wildfire burning all around him, Don Myron was going to find a way out or die trying. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Most people don’t have a burning desire to motorcycle through a 395-foot tunnel of flames. But for daredevils Enrico Schoeman and André de Kock, it was a surefire way to set a new world record. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As the Woolsey Fire burned, volcanologist Jess Phoenix drove into danger, determined to save terrified horses that couldn’t be evacuated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In Chennai, India, Illayaram Sekar solved a record-breaking number of Rubik’s Cubes while completely submerged. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lindsey Vonn’s ski racing resume is spectacularly impressive — even more so when you consider how many supposedly career-ending injuries she’s sustained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nearly doomed to an icy grave, Joe Simpson crawled back to basecamp with a shattered leg after summiting Siula Grande in Peru. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rocky Stoutenburgh was just 19 years old when an accident left him permanently paralyzed from the shoulders down. Twelve years later, he started breaking world records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pop quiz: how fast would you have to drive in order to break the speed of sound? Andy Green went supersonic in 1997 — twice — setting the world record for land speed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It can be tricky to master even a sleight of hand, but illusionist David Blaine took his magic to the next level when he changed his body inside and out… all so he could hold his breath the longest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In 2012, breaking the collegiate basketball scoring record seemed impossible. But Jack Taylor had a few things going for him… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After a lifetime of adventure, Fedor Konyukhov remembered an idea he had in 1992 — one that would take his ambitions sky-high, and break multiple circumnavigation records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A battle with cancer cost him a limb, but Terry Fox felt lucky just to be alive — so he poured his gratitude into an impossible-sounding mission that would let him give back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
By the time Yuichiro Miura was 80 years old, he’d already set a skiing record, survived a near-death experience, and glided down the highest mountain in Japan. But he wasn’t done pushing his limits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ester Ladecka from the Czech Republic became the first woman to win a gold medal in two different sports in the span of one Winter Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Not even expected to medal in the 2012 London Olympics, gymnast Gabby Douglas became the first American to win gold medals in both the Individual and Team All-Around. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
He might be legally blind, but South Korea’s Im Dong-Hyun can always find the bullseye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Facing 9-time world champ and 3-time Olympic gold medalist Aleksandr Karelin from Russia, Rulon Gardner of the U.S. came up with the biggest upset in Olympic wrestling history to win the gold medal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tennis champion Richard Norris Williams II won his first Grand Slam in mixed-doubles in the U.S. Open. Months earlier, he survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
