Incredible Feats

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