Incredible Feats

The Chilean Miner Rescue

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

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

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

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

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