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Led 27 men to rescue after surviving for 2 years in Antarctica. Endurance You can’t begin a conversation about the limits of human endurance without mentioning this man. His ship was literally named Endurance. Ernest Shackleton was an 20th-century explorer during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration (yes, that’s actually...

Survived plane crash after falling 2-miles from the sky then walked for 10 days with no food. The Girl Who Fell 2 Miles Christmas Eve 1971 - Juliane Koepcke is 17 years old, has just graduated from high school, and is flying home from Lima, Peru with her mother for...

Run 1000 marathons in 7 years. The Marathon Monks If you were to have a conversation about which group of people are toughest, who would be in it? Answers would vary person to person, but most short-lists might like look something like this: martial artists, football players, and endurance athletes....

At 64, set world record for longest unassisted solo swim ever. The 110-Mile Swim Diana Nyad is a long-distance swimmer, a person you’ve probably never heard before, and one of the toughest humans to have ever existed. For those who are unfamiliar, long-distance swimming is exactly what it sounds like....