Incredible Feats

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Incredible Feats episodes

October 28, 2020 Cape Town To Cairo: Traversing A Continent
Monsoon rains, jail time, malaria… Explorer Mario Rigby experienced all of it and more as he walked and kayaked through Africa, traveling over 7,500 miles south to north.

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8 min
October 27, 2020 Major League Eating
In 2020, champion eater Joey Chestnut broke his own world record for most hot dogs consumed in 10 minutes. #AmericanHero?

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8 min
October 26, 2020 Getting Air In A Wheelchair
Think backflips are hard? Try doing a double… in a wheelchair. That’s exactly what Aaron Fotheringham did in 2010, just a few years after inventing a new brand of daring athletics.

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7 min
October 23, 2020 Miss Unsinkable
Violet Jessop survived shipwreck, after shipwreck, after shipwreck — all in the span of 5 years. After each disaster, the ocean liner stewardess went right back to work.

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7 min
October 22, 2020 Getting His Grip On El Capitan
Leaving his climbing ropes behind, Alex Honnold scaled the 3000-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in 2017. His free solo feat took a grueling 3 hours and 56 minutes.

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8 min
October 21, 2020 Trekking The Appalachian Trail At 67
“Grandma” Emma Gatewood spent nearly 150 days hiking the Appalachian Trail in 1955, becoming the first woman to hike the entire trail solo.

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8 min
October 20, 2020 No Shoes, Can’t Lose
For a 26.2 mile race over thousand-year-old cobblestones, Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila opted to run barefoot… then set a world record.

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7 min
October 19, 2020 On A Scale Of One To Ten
A scoreboard snafu left the crowd outraged — then thrilled — after Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci’s routine in the 1976 Olympics.

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8 min
October 16, 2020 Tightroping Across Niagara Falls
June 2012: Nik Wallenda stares out over thousands of feet of metal cable stretched across Niagara Falls. But he’s not afraid. Performing daring stunts is in his blood.

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7 min
October 15, 2020 Overcoming Polio To Win Olympic Gold
After doctors told her she'd never walk again, Wilma Rudolph did the unthinkable... and became a record-breaking Olympian with the nickname of "Fastest Woman in the World."

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7 min

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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…