The Guy Who Outsmarted the Ocean for 76 Days (Yes, Really)
He spent seventy-six days alone on a life raft, lived on raw fish and rain, invented a desalination trick, and somehow came back polite enough to write a book about it.Read More 
Selkirk: The Sailor Who Talked Himself Ashore
He asked to be marooned in 1704, ate goats and fish for four years, and came back to civilisation like he owned the place.Read More 
He Cut Off His Own Arm To Get Out Of A Canyon
Trapped under a boulder for 127 hours in Bluejohn Canyon, he used a multitool to amputate his arm and hiked to safety - and yes, I still think about the elbow.Read More 
She Froze To 13.7 C And Walked Out
She plunged under ice in 1999, her heart stopped, her core temperature fell to 13.7 C and doctors dragged her back from the absolute brink; it reads like science fiction but it is proper, stubborn medicine.Read More 
He Stuck His Head In A Proton Beam And Lived (No, Really)
Anatoli Bugorski leaned into a busted Soviet synchrotron in 1978, saw a flash 'like a thousand suns', got burned on one side of his face and somehow kept working as a physicist afterward.Read More 
Fell From A Plane, Walked Out Alive
Seventeen-year-old Juliane Koepcke plummeted from a lightning-struck plane, still belted to her seat, landed in the Amazon and walked out nine days later.Read More 
He Was Forgotten in a Cell for 18 Days and Somehow Lived
This is the absurd true story of an Austrian guy named Andreas who the police literally forgot in a holding cell for 18 days and walked out like it was a weird sleepover gone wrong.Read More 
The Bloke Who Kept Fighting Until Given Leave
A Japanese soldier hid in a Philippine jungle for 29 years refusing to surrender until a superior officer finally turned up with written orders.Read More 
The Bloke Who Got Hit By Lightning Seven Times (And Lived To Moan About It)
Roy Sullivan survived seven separate lightning strikes while working as a park ranger, which makes him the unluckiest lucky man in recorded history.Read More 
133 Days Adrift, Ate Seagulls, Still Sound
Proper mad: a fella floated for 133 days, drank rain, ate birds and turned a bit of canvas into a wardrobe and kept his humour.Read More 