Adventure Facts

In 2011, two men paraglided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42 minutes and avoiding the dangerous conventional 3 day descent.

A medical student from Michigan solved a decade-long treasure hunt in 2020 - finding a bronze chest filled with gold nuggets, ancient coins, and jewels that art dealer Forrest Fenn had hidden in Wyoming around 2010. More than 350,000 people had searched for it. The chest sold at auction in 2022 for $1.3 million.

Bear Grylls broke three vertebrae in a parachuting accident in Zambia in 1996, falling from 16,000 feet. His surgeon said he was "within a whisker" of permanent paralysis. Eighteen months later, on May 26, 1998, he stood on the summit of Mount Everest at age 23.