There are many different ways to set a record
and leave your mark in the Guinness World Record book. Whilst some have more at stake than others,
it’s fair to say that not all records are created equal - there’s only a select few
genuinely shocking achievements that are just about guaranteed to take your breath away. Today I’m going to show you some of the
craziest records that are almost impossible to break. Brave enough to take a look? Let’s get it on! TALLEST BED OF NAILS
Humans have limits - it’s in our nature not to do things that could hurt us so we
can survive. But some people ignore those limits and do
crazy things anyway. That’s exactly what these record holders
did: not only did they decide to lie on a bed of nails, but they decided to become the
tallest stack of people on nail beds in history, by shockingly lying on top of each other. These nine men, each with their own bed of
nails, were gently laid down on top of one another. Each one not only has a bed of nails on top
of them for the next person to lie on, but just to make it even more terrifying, they
have nails trying to pierce their skin from both sides. Imagine being the guy on the bottom lying
on a nail bed with another nail bed on your chest, and 8 grown men on top of that - he
was pushing his limits for sure. WINGSUIT JUMP INTO BOXES
Skydiving is way too scary for most people to attempt, however skydiving without a parachute
is literally insane. Most of us would consider it a death sentence,
but there was one man who didn’t: the stuntman Gary Connery. He decided that jumping out of a helicopter
without a parachute and landing on a pile of boxes would be a fun thing to do one afternoon,
so he did it. The stunt is just as incredible as it sounds:
he wore a specially designed wingsuit which would help him to glide the 2,400 feet to
the ground and make him the first person ever to jump from such a dizzying height without
a deployed parachute and live to tell the tale. All he had to break his 45-second 80 mile
per hour plummet toward the ground was a strip of cardboard boxes - 18,600 of them.. It certainly was a leap of faith. And just in case you weren’t sure, against
all odds he did actually manage to survive the previously impossible stunt. FASTEST MOUNTAIN BIKE
Mountains and bikes don’t make the safest combination even at the best of times. So what happens when you add in breakneck
speeds and kick it up a notch? Frenchman Eric Barone can tell you: he took
his bike up the Alps to break his own downhill mountain biking record. But as scary as mountain biking sounds to
most people, Barone added in an extra element to increase the danger: snow! In a wind-chill temperature below freezing,
wind speeds topping 40 mph and slippery snow, Barone broke his very own Fastest Downhill
Mountain Biking on Snow record with a white knuckle 141.498 miles per hour. But just in case you were thinking - What
could go wrong? Have a look at this. A lot can go wrong as it turns out as his
previous attempt shows. A previous attempt a few years ago caused
a crash which saw Barone break his femur and six ribs. It’s actually not as easy as it looks, which
is really saying something since it doesn’t seem easy at all. DEEPEST ICE FREE-DIVE
Falling into the ice is incredibly dangerous, since your body is programmed to panic under
those harsh conditions. The cold shock makes you hyperventilate and
breathe in water, the dark disorientates you so you struggle to find your way back out,
and your frantic swimming uses up vital energy. Many people don’t survive it. Now imagine someone crazy enough to do that
to themselves on purpose. In 2019, New Zealander Anthony Williams achieved
the world record for the deepest free dive under ice. Armed with nothing but fins and a diving suit,
he plunged an incredible 230.6 feet under the ice of a frozen fjord in Norway. The dive lasted 2 minutes and 29 seconds as
he held his breath, overcoming the incredible mental and physical challenges of diving under
ice. It’s not only the biting cold he had to
contend with: he described the darkness as possibly his greatest challenge, saying it
was incredibly difficult to sink into the black depths of the water all alone without
panicking. 157 DAY SWIM
Some people are content to just break world records - after all it's a pretty big deal,
but other superhumans will go out of their way to ensure nobody can top them. That’s what British adventurer Ross Edgeley
did when he broke the record for the longest staged sea swim by swimming around the entire
mainland of the United Kingdom. That already sounds insane and incredible,
but it’s just the tip of the iceberg: the swim is an incredible 1,791 miles long and
took 157 days for Edgley to complete, but he broke the record way back on day 74 of
the ultimate marathon swim. He didn’t stop though, never once stepping
foot on dry land despite battling incredible pain and chafing from his wetsuit that was
taking skin off his neck, jellyfish stings, whirlpools, near hypothermia that left him
picking ice off his wetsuit, major storms, and a disintegrating tongue due to overexposure
to salt from the sea water. He only rested occasionally on a catamaran
carrying his crew who accompanied him, but he was in the water swimming for an incredible
12 hours a day. This is one record we’re not likely to see
broken anytime soon. MOST BASE JUMPS IN 24 HOURS
When performing a stunt that requires you to risk your life, you generally don’t want
to overdo it and tire yourself out. Then again, maybe you’re Miles Daisher. He doesn’t know the meaning of the word
tired, and that’s why he holds the world record for the most human-powered base jumps
in 24 hours. For a base jump to be human-powered, it requires
the person doing the jumping to also make their way to the top of whatever they’re
jumping off on foot. Daisher was jumping off a 486 foot high bridge,
and by now you’re probably wondering how many times he risked his life jumping off
that bridge only to have to walk back to the top: the answer is 63! This truly incredible feat not only required
63 leaps of faith, but a total of 30,618 feet of climbing back to the top, which for the
record, is more climbing than if Daisher had climbed to the top of Mount Everest. In fact the combined climbing from only 60
of his 63 base jumps would have got him up Everest. And all this completed within 24 hours and
without any injuries. HIGHEST URBAN SLACKLINE
We’ll never tire of watching amazing people walk across a tiny piece of rope, from the
classic circus tightrope to the exciting slackline. But you’ve never seen a slackline quite
like this one before. This one was set up to give people the chance
of breaking the world record for the highest urban slackline walk with a harness. Of course, for a record like that the height
has to be truly spectacular, and this doesn’t disappoint: it was strung across two skyscrapers
in Moscow, but not just any two: one is the second tallest building in europe, and the
other, which was under construction during the attempt, was set to become the tallest.This
attempt dwarfed the previous 810 foot high record with a dizzying 1,148 feet. Daredevils from all over the world were allowed
to attempt the incredible walk above Moscow’s business district and seven amazing people
from four countries managed to complete the breathtaking challenge, with one even trying
out a bit of yoga while hanging from the piece of netting attached to a skyscraper.Just because
more than one person achieved the stunt it clearly doesn’t mean there’s anything
less than spectacular about it. TALLEST HOUSE OF CARDS
There are things at first which don’t really seem impressive until you see them done by
an expert. Bryan Berg is one of those incredible people
who’s proven beyond a doubt about how amazing card stacking can be. In 2016 he broke the record for the world’s
tallest house of cards built in 12 hours. Still not impressed? What if I told you the house of cards was
10.8 feet tall and the card equivalent of a 48 storey house? Still not impressed? What if I told you he built it on top of a
running washing machine? Bryan is actually an architect so if he can
build the world’s tallest house of cards on top of a washing machine which is spinning
at 1,000 rpm while standing on a ladder, he should probably be designing skyscrapers for
places that suffer from earthquakes. RESTRAINING FOUR MOTORCYCLES
There are some truly remarkable displays of strength throughout history and this may be
the most spectacular. The Austrian World’s Strongest Man competitor
Franz Muellner decided that the best way to showcase his herculean strength was to physically
restrain not one, but four motorcycles. Each bike was attached to one of his limbs
in a setup which is slightly reminiscent of some form of medieval torture. Then, the professional riders get a chance
to do what they do best. Professionals were essential because they
needed to ensure that each motorbike exceeded 500 newtons of force, otherwise Muellner would
have lost the world record which proves his hard work. The strength it took to restrain the motorcycles
was incredible, with just his one leg having to hold back a whopping 385.8 pounds at one
point, and all his limbs had to handle that in tandem. Still, he managed to take it a step further
than anyone expected: he only needed to restrain the bikes for 10 seconds to get the world
record, but somehow managed to hold them back for an astounding 24 seconds! At least now we all know who wins in the battle
between man and machine. IRON MAN SPEED
Most people accept superhero movies as fiction, they’re only a dream like flying. But not everyone accepts that dreams are just
dreams. That’s where British inventor Richard Browning
comes in: he’s built himself a flying suit, effectively becoming a real-life Iron Man. In 2017 he took the world record for Fastest
Speed in a Body-Controlled Jet Engine Powered Suit, at a speed of 32 miles per hour, which
is already impressive. Then in 2019, he appeared again in an all-new
3D printed lightweight suit, to try and beat his own record in the skies above the historic
Brighton Pier. He didn’t beat it though, he smashed it
with an incredible speed of 85.06 miles per hour. The incredible suit is controlled by body
movement alone, has the ability to fine-tune its power mid-flight, and features leg wings
and leg straits which can lift the flyer aerodynamically like a plane, which allowed the new model
to break the record by putting more power into propelling rather than just lifting him
off the ground. It apparently does feel just like flying in
a dream. Hopefully one day soon, we’ll all be able
to fly around in one of those too.
