Craziest Stunts Ever Tried by Daredevils
Nathan Johnson
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09/01/2016
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For his latest stunt, daredevil Cemre Candar thought it would be a good idea to take a bath in a tub filled with the equivalent of 1,250 bottles of hot sauce. He was wrong. As you'll see in the video below, he went so far as to consume hot peppers and dunk his head in the mixture. The result was overwhelming misery. Hours later, after cleaning off, Candar showed off his red blotchy skin and explained that he was still feeling the horrible burning sensation. -
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An American naturalist filmed himself being eaten alive by a snake for a TV stunt but is now facing ridicule for getting his safety team to save him after just part of his head was consumed. In footage aired on the Discovery Channel in 2014, 27-year-old Paul Rosolie and his 10-strong team tracked down the 20ft-long anaconda to the headwaters of the Amazon. Donning a black armored suit and slathered in pig blood, Rosolie moved tentatively "on all fours" toward the enormous beast as the cameras rolled and his wife, Gowri, watched. Seconds later, the female anaconda — one of the world's most fearsome creatures — pounced on its 5' 9" victim, latching on to his head, before constricting his arms and body. As Rosolie felt his arm "start to break" under the snake's grip, he ordered his team of fellow naturalists, doctors, and vets to save him, with just the top of his head in the animal's jaws. As the show aired, people across America took to social media to express their disappointment at the highly anticipated footage. In response, Rosolie claimed that he carried out the risky move to raise money to save the snake's habitat in South America and that the animal was not harmed. -
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In July 2016, a daredevil leaped from a plane 25,000 feet into a giant net, becoming the first person in the world to complete a skydive without a parachute. Luke Aikins was in free fall for around two minutes after jumping from a small propeller plane above Simi Valley, California. The 42-year-old was not wearing a wing suit or emergency parachute for the jump, which was broadcast live on television. He thanked the dozens of crew members who spent two years helping him prepare for the jump, including those who assembled the net and made sure it worked. While Aikins has made over 18,000 skydives, he admitted to being nervous before his latest feat. -
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If you live in Dubai, then you've probably already heard of Oleg Cricket. The extreme sportsman's Instagram has over 200,000 followers, and his recently released 4K YouTube video is terrifying, breathtaking, and sends shivers down your spine all at once. It's already amassed 780,000 views and shows some of Dubai's most beautiful scenes. His death-defying stunts include a handstand on a tiny platform on top of the Cayan Tower in Dubai Marina, sliding down the roof of a skyscraper, and using Dubai Marina as a climbing frame. The three-minute video features some of his already viral hits uploaded to Instagram. In one clip, he uses a hoverboard to skate on the roof of one of the towers in the Marina, with some new stunts filmed using drone footage. -
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What this adrenaline-seeker did in Bangladesh is straight-up insane. He patiently stands on train tracks, awaiting a swift demise. Just seconds before impact, he lies down on his stomach, and after the train thunders past (mere inches from his head), he casually checks himself for injuries, jumps up, collects his camera and runs off. While the whole thing is pretty amazing, it could have ended an entirely different way. He could have killed himself and possibly hundreds of others. Basically, just stay away from train tracks, everyone. -
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A daredevil known for setting the world record for longest distance traveled on a zip line while tethered by his hair died in 2013 while attempting to recreate the stunt over the River Teesta in the east Indian state of West Bengal. Eyewitnesses say Sailendra Nath Roy, 48, made it about halfway across the 600-foot wire when his ponytail apparently became entangled in the wheeler leaving him dangling some 70 feet above the river while spectators watched helplessly. Because the stunt was performed illegally — and Roy had no emergency personnel standing by to assist him — it took another 45 minutes before police were finally able to bring him down. He was rushed to a nearby hospital when doctors pronounced him dead of an apparent heart attack. -
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Danish freediver Stig Severinsen — who has a Ph. D. in medicine and a master's degree in biology — is known for participating in the most extreme challenges, including swimming in freezing water. Before setting his first breath-holding world record, he swam 500 feet (about 152 meters) in the sub-zero waters of the North Sea. After taking a few breaths of air, he dived feet first through a hole carved in the ice. As soon as he was in the water, he started swimming to the next hole wearing only in his signature blue Speedos. It was 152 meters away, and there wasn't another escape route, which made the challenge extremely dangerous. After reaching his destination in just 2 minutes and 11 seconds, the 40-year-old daredevil lingered in the freezing hole a little longer, as if to prove the cold didn't affect him much. He also set another record for swimming 72 meters wearing only swimming trunks. You'd think that after swimming that distance in the heart-stopping water he would immediately jump out to find some warm clothes, but our hero just stood there with his elbows on the ice, smiling and thanking everyone as if he was in a hot tub or somewhere in the Bahamas. -
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Red Bull has a long history of sponsoring some pretty crazy and extreme endeavors, from their annual cliff-diving competitions to Felix Baumgartner's space jump, to Robbie Madison's motorcycle jump onto the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in 2008. But — even for Red Bull — this stunt is pretty insane. In the video below, parachute and skydive master Paul Steiner casually switches gliders in mid-air, hanging off the wing of one to drop onto the top of the other. If that wasn't enough, he then proceeds to grab the tail of the first glider (which flips upside down) while standing on the second.
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