5 Most Badass People Of All Time

[Music] hugh glass was a 19th century american frontiersman famous for exploring the watershed of the upper missouri river what gained him the status of a national hero is an endeavor he made as a fur trapper in 1823 when he famously survived a brutal bear attack while scouting for food along the grand river in 1823 hugh glass ran into an enraged grizzly bear mother who attacked him to defend her two cubs unable to reach his rifle as they wrestled on the ground glass was able to escape from her death grip and stab her with his knife while she shredded his face chest arm and back with her claws his wounds were so gruesome that his fellow trappers simply placed a bear hide over him as a funeral shroud and left him for dead so they could get out of the hostile territory and away from the native americans who had recently killed half of their crew with pretty much anyone else the whole horrendous story would have ended there but not hugh glass when glass eventually regained consciousness he set his own leg wrapped himself in his bear hide shroud and started crawling along the banks of the cheyenne river during the insane trek across country that followed he prevented gangrene from infecting his wounded back by lying on a rotting log and allowing maggots to eat his dead flesh he sustained himself by killing and eating rattlesnakes and crawled over land for six weeks until he reached civilization which was baffled and impressed to see him alive julian koepck is a german zoologist and even though she's made contributions in her field she's more famous for being a plane crash survivor in the early 70s at the age of 17 julian was on a flight from lima to picalpo with her mother when the plane was struck by lightning julian was the sole survivor of the plane crash which fell a total of two miles from the sky she was strapped to her seat and landed in a rainforest with injuries of a concussion broken collarbone a gash to her right arm and her right eye swollen shut the sweets she found while checking for survivors ended up being her only food she followed a small stream expecting it to lead her to civilization after nine sleep-deprived days spent in knee-high water with an empty stomach coept finally came across a boat belonging to lumberman who tended to her wounds and eventually got her to safety simo hayoha was a finnish farmer and hunter living on the present-day border between finland and russia who joined the finnish militia at the early age of 20. this seemingly average young man turned into a legendary sniper nicknamed white death hyoho was a remarkable shot who broke all known records during a 100-day period he managed to kill 500 soldiers of the red army reaching a remarkable number of five successful hits per day haioha operated during the very few daily hours of sunlight in white camouflage in temperatures between negative 40 and negative 20 degrees celsius the soviets put his murder as a priority and attempted to kill him with counter snipers and artillery strikes but failed repeatedly in march 1940 haoha was finally hit an explosive bullet hit him in the lower left jaw and took off half of his face still hauha didn't die remarkably he pulled through and lived to see the end of the fighting even though the bullet had crushed his jaw and blew off his left cheek hauha managed to make a full recovery shavarsh karapetyan is a 17-time world champion soviet armenian fin swimmer although a prominent name in the obscure underwater sport karapedyan is actually best known for the incident which made him retire in 1976 while training with his brother alongside a lake carpetian witnessed a trolley bus crash with 92 passengers inside the trolley bus fell from a damn wall and splashed at the bottom of a 10 meter deep reservoir carte petyan ran to the rescue and single-handedly rescued 20 people from the sinking bus carapetyan managed to break into the trolley bus and with barely any visibility and very little time pulled 20 passengers up to safety unfortunately the combined effect of cold water and the multiple wounds he received led to him falling into a 45-day coma he awoke a hero but never managed to recover completely his heroics sadly ended his career but saved many lives karapatyan repeated his heroism 10 years later when he rescued people trapped in a burning building which made him become a household name roy benavidez was a former member of the united states army special forces who was awarded the medal of honor for his actions in vietnam he is best known for surviving the impossible he went to save his comrades who were outnumbered the helicopter couldn't land because of the intense small arms fire so he jumped from the hovering helicopter around 30 to 50 feet in the air he then had to run 75 meters to his comrades where he was shot in the leg face and head on the way once he got there he started rescuing his squadmates and while he was doing so got shot in the gut and took a grenade to the back after all of this he was miraculously still mobile and still going roy then found out the helicopter he previously jumped from had crashed so he went and rescued the wounded pilot from the wreckage and proceeded to call in airstrikes and call for another rescue attempt he was shot in the thigh a couple more times and on his trip to the backup rescue chopper he was beaten and stabbed by an enemy who he then killed in hand-to-hand combat once he finally made it back to the chopper he then allowed his comrades to pull him in when they arrived back to the base he was pronounced dead and put into a body bag as they were zipping up the body bag he had only the strength to spit to let them know he was still alive he survived these wounds and received the medal of honor you

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Length: 6min 8sec (368 seconds)

Published: Sat May 16 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/Clavis_Apocalypticae]

Roy has been my hero since I was a teenager, and part of the reason I joined the Army. In my 20s, he was speaking at an event in the hotel I worked at. My manager heard me telling another coworker about him, and worked it out for me to meet him. I got to chat with him for about 20 minutes, shake his hand, get a photo, and an autographed copy of his autobiography (The Last Medal of Honor). He died only 5 or 6 years afterward.

That don't make them like him anymore.

[u/rap31264]

Medal of Honor recommendation: In 1973, after more detailed accounts became available, Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Ralph R. Drake insisted that Benavidez receive the Medal of Honor. By then, however, the time limit on the medal had expired. An appeal to Congress resulted in an exemption for Benavidez, but the Army Decorations Board denied him an upgrade of his Distinguished Service Cross to the Medal of Honor. The Army board required an eyewitness account from someone present during the action, and Benavidez believed that there were no living witnesses of the "Six Hours in Hell."

[u/soulmanx07]

Chuck Norris? Never heard of her.

[u/DickweedMcGee]

Donald Trump is such a dick

[u/Dishevel]

That is a true fucking MAN.

[u/TheLivewareProblem]

Jesus didn't get a Medal of Honor.

[u/kenerg]

bad ass...

[u/mmogamer04]

I am humbled.

[u/Shadowstein]

he forgot to add that he was spitting in the doctors face as they were zipping up his body bag.