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Incredible Feats

297 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 532 ratings

They’ve broken records, made history, and turned the impossible into the incredible. Every weekday, join comedian Dan Cummins as he profiles amazing achievements made by people from all over the world. Incredible Feats is a Spotify Original from Parcast.

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The Chilean Miner Rescue

September 03, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

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

Centenarian Runs Marathon

September 02, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

Tarrare, The Man Who Could Eat Anything

September 01, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

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

Cyborg Musician Beats Drumming Record

August 31, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

Surviving Mt. Everest’s Deadliest Blizzard

August 30, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

Spinning The World’s Biggest Hula-Hoop

August 27, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

Winning Olympic Gold To Get The Girl

August 26, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

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

Setting Archery Records… With Her Feet

August 25, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

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

Castaway On A Liferaft For 76 Days

August 24, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

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

Amputee Team Bikes Baja 1000

August 23, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

Record Number Of Stunt People Set On Fire

August 20, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

A Fiery Rivalry

August 19, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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 Front Row Ticket To The Apocalypse

August 18, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

Motorcycling Through Flames

August 17, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

Driving Into A Wildfire

August 16, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

Solving Rubik’s Cubes Underwater

August 13, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

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

The Winningest Woman On The Slopes

August 12, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

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

Left For Dead In The Andes

August 11, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

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

Paralyzed Athlete Breaks Records With His Mouth

August 10, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

Supersonic Man Drives World’s Fastest Car

August 09, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

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

Drowned Alive

August 06, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

Highest Score In College Basketball

August 05, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

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

Determination And Loads Of Hot Air

August 04, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

Losing A Leg, Starting A Movement

August 03, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

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

Daredevil Skier Summits Everest At 80

August 02, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

2 Sports, 2 Medals, 2 Borrowed Skis

July 30, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

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

From Flying Squirrel To Double Gold Medal Winner

July 29, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

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

Shooting Blind To Set The Olympic Archery Record

July 28, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

The “Miracle On The Mat”

July 27, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

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

Overcoming Icebergs And Injuries To Win Gold

July 26, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

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

Overcoming Disability To Break World Records

July 23, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

High school and college national wrestling championships were just the beginning for Anthony Robles. When his wrestling career was over, he set out to break world records and did so, all with only one leg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Red Sox Player Saves A Life

July 22, 2021 07:01 - 6 minutes

Red Sox outfielder Jim Rice was used to performing under pressure. But nothing would prepare him for what happened during the 4th inning of a game August 7, 1982 at Fenway Park. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dancing In The Sky

July 21, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

Imagine doing something called the “death whirl” on an 18-inch platform 100 feet above the ground. That was just part of the routine that Benny Fox and his partner “Betty” would perform multiple times a day throughout the 1930s and 40s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“Soul Surfer” Gets Back On Board

July 20, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

After losing an arm in a 2003 shark attack, 13 year old Bethany Hamilton had to work even harder to achieve her goal of becoming a professional surfer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Don’t Meet Your Heroes, Beat Your Heroes

July 19, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

Up and coming tennis star Naomi Osaka faced her idol, the legendary Serena Williams, and won a controversial match. To set the record straight, Osaka beat Williams a second time on her way to her 4th Grand Slam title. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Summiting The World’s 14 Highest Mountains, Alpine Style

July 16, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

It took 13 years, but Austrian climber Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner became the first woman to summit the world’s highest mountains without sherpas or supplemental oxygen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Top Female Soccer Scorer

July 15, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

Goals are important. Ada Hegerberg scored a lot of them as Norway’s top women’s soccer player. But when the National Team didn’t get the practice time and pay they deserved, she found a new goal to achieve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Walking Thousands Of Miles, Backwards

July 14, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

Plennie Wingo had a retro idea… To make money during the Great Depression, he’d walk around the world backward. And while it cost him his marriage, walking backwards is certainly something he did on three different continents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Underground Astronauts

July 13, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

In a nearly impossible-to-reach subterranean cave, a group of young women searched for fossils — and found a brand new species. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ten Hours Trapped In A Riptide

July 12, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

19-year-old Blake Spataro was stranded in the open ocean for hours with no life vest. He would miraculously survive the experience and refer to it as “the worst vacation ever.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Don’t Go Jumpin’ Waterfalls

July 09, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

Known as America’s first daredevil, Sam Patch had a penchant for jumping into waterfalls. And there was one particular waterfall he needed to conquer: Niagara Falls.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Michael Jordan’s NBA Finals Flu Game

July 08, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

He was up all night vomiting, but you wouldn't have known it from the way Michael Jordan performed in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bowling With The Boys

July 07, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

After winning the first-ever Women’s PBA Championship, Kelly Kulick got the opportunity to compete against the men. And she didn’t just beat them. She destroyed them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Running The Gauntlet In The Boston Marathon

July 06, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

Kathrine Switzer set out to be the first woman to legally run the Boston Marathon. No one was gonna make it easy for her — but who could’ve predicted the bodyslams? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pinky Pull-Up Prince

July 05, 2021 07:01 - 8 minutes

Thirty-six pull-ups would be a personal record for most people. But Tazio il Biondo isn't like most people. He set a Guinness record with 36 consecutive pull-ups… using just his two pinky fingers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Harriet Tubman’s Top-Secret Military Mission

July 02, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

In 1863, a colonel in the Union Army approached Harriet Tubman with a dangerous mission: rescue hundreds of enslaved people from inside Confederate territory. She accepted, becoming the only woman to lead a Civil War military operation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Baseball Legend Joins Secret WWII Invasion

July 01, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

Before he was drafted by the New York Yankees, Hall of Famer Yogi Berra was drafted by the U.S. Navy to fight in World War II. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Double Agent Secures Revolutionary Victory

June 30, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

Born into slavery, James Armistead risked his life to help secure an American victory in the Revolutionary War.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cracking The Enigma Code

June 29, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

The British military needed to crack the German Enigma Code to win World War II. It had nearly 159 quintillion solutions. They called on Alan Turing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wooden-Legged Spy Hikes 50 Miles To Escape Nazis

June 28, 2021 07:01 - 7 minutes

American spy Virginia Hall braved the Pyrenees Mountains in November to escape the Gestapo, who called her “The Enemy’s Most Dangerous Spy.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices