Most Unbelievable Feats Of Humans
11. Greatest weight raised by a human
Paul Anderson, an American weightlifter, strongman, and power lifter performed the feat of lifting 2844.02 kilograms (6,270 pounds) in a back lift, which the Guinness Book of World Records lists as the greatest weight ever raised by a human being. Anderson might have lifted even heavier weights, but only this attempt was officially documented and recorded.
12. Heroic savior
Shavarsh Karapetyan, a retired Soviet Armenian swimmer and World and European champion, saved the lives of 20 people in a 1976 trolleybus accident in Yerevan, Armenia. The trolleybus, crowded with 92 passengers, sank into a dam at a depth of 10 meters (33 feet). Karapetyan jumped into the dam, broke through a window and started to pull the passengers out. He managed to save 20 of them before he himself lost consciousness in the murky water.
13. Longest survival without food and water
In April 1979, then 18 year old Andreas Mihavecz from Austria survived an incredible 18 days without food and water in a holding cell where he was put for being a passenger in a crashed car. He had been completely forgotten about by policemen responsible for him. Mihavecz holds the record of surviving the longest without any food or liquids.
14. Biggest wave surfed
Garrett McNamara, an American professional big wave surfer and extreme waterman, is known for breaking the world record for largest wave ever surfed. In January 2013, McNamara broke his own previous world records by surfing an estimated 30 meter (100 foot) wave off the coast of Nazar
15. Highest dive
In August 2015, 27 year old Lazaro Laso Schaller leapt into the record books after achieving the highest dive from a diving board and simultaneously the highest cliff jump. The fearless stuntman threw himself feet first off a 58.8 meter (192 feet, 10 inch) rock face into a pool of water in Switzerland.
16. Niagara Falls tightrope walk
Holder of 9 Guinness World Records, Nikolas Wallenda, an American acrobat, aerialist, stuntman, high wire artist, and author is best known as the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls. It took him 2 years to get approval from Canada and the US to perform this incredible feat.
17. Human lightning rod
American park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, Roy Cleveland Sullivan was hit by lightning on 7 different occasions between 1942 and 1977 and survived all of them. Known as the Human Lightning Rod, he is recognized by Guinness World Records as the person struck by lightning more recorded times than any other human being.
18. Human spider
Known as the Human Spider, Alain Robert, a French rock and urban climber, is famous for his free solo climbing and scaling skyscrapers using no climbing equipment. Robert has climbed landmarks including the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and the Sears Tower in Chicago.
19. Helicopter pulled with ear
A Georgian man, Lasha Pataraia, earned himself a place in the Book of World Records by pulling a 7,734 kilogram (17,015 pound) military helicopter using just his left ear. He set the world record by pulling a MI8 helicopter 26 meters and 30 centimeters (28.4 yards and 11.8 inches).
20. Longest underwater breath hold
On 28 February 2016, Aleix Segura Vendrell, a professional free diver from Spain, set the new world record for the longest time breath held voluntarily when he held his breath under water for 24 minutes and 3.45 seconds.
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