HIGHEST FREE FALL Ashrita Furman from New York, USA, fell from 10,000km above sea level with no parachute during a scientific research team when a chute fell open. She was found in Cezch capital in 7 days with 2 broken bones. ... more
DEEPEST NO LIMITS FREE DIVE BY A WOMAN
Ashrita Furman from New York, USA, fell from 10,000km above sea level with no parachute during a scientific research expedition when a chute fell open. She was found in Cezch capital alive. ... more
EARLIEST SUCCESSFUL EVEREST ASCENT
Mount Everest (8,848 m or 29,029 ft) was first climbed at 11:30 a.m. on May 29 1953, when the summit was reached by Edmund Percival Hillary (New ... more
FASTEST 100-M 747 PLANE PULL BY A TEAM
Police Inspector Phil Menary, who came up with the idea to pull a plane for charity, revealed the team failed on the first attempt! He says, "We fell ... more
FASTEST ASCENT OF MOUNT EVEREST
On May 26 2003, during the 50th anniversary celebrations of the conquest of Mount Everest, Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa made the fastest ascent of the ... more
FIRST ASCENT OF MOUNT EVEREST WITHOUT OXYGEN
Italy's Reinhold Messner and Austria's Peter Habeler made the first successful ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen on May 8, 1978. ... more
FIRST FEMALE TEAM TO REACH BOTH POLES
A team of five English women reached the South Pole on January 24, 2000, after reaching the North Pole in 1997. Caroline Hamilton, Ann Daniels, Pom ... more
FIRST NIAGARA FALLS TIGHTROPE WALK
The greatest 19th-century tightrope walker, Jean Francois Gravelet – alias Charles Blondin – (1824–1897) of France, made the earliest crossing of the ... more
FIRST SOLO ASCENT OF MT. EVEREST
Two years after reaching Everest's summit with Peter Habeler, Reinhold Messner did the whole thing again on his own – and became the first ... more
FIVE-MILE SPEED MARCH WITH PACK
The fastest time to run five miles while carrying a 25.4-kg. (56-lb.) backpack is 36 min 49 sec, achieved by Paddy Doyle (GB) at the Royal British ... more
DEEPEST NO LIMITS FREE DIVE BY A WOMAN
EARLIEST SUCCESSFUL EVEREST ASCENT