Who in your opinion is the toughest man ever to walk the earth ?

[AlexKid]

George Chuvalo



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[*TonyMontana*]

How would one know? Billions of people over 100's of thousands of years! Cavemen alone must ave had it incredibly tough by todays standards.

THOR HEYERDAHL

Heyerdahl had a wild theory that Polynesians originally came from South America, having sailed over 4,000 miles, nearly 3,000 years ago. In 1947 he set out to recreate their trip on a hand-built balsa-wood raft, pulling in sharks and battling unthinkable storms. And, yes, after 101 days of hell he and his team made it.

EDWARD WHYMPER

In the 1800s, Whymper pioneered climbing as we know it by scrambling across the Alps in petrifying conditions. People like me owe him so much - he was a classic Englishman. He lost four of his men in the course of mapping all the routes we now have. What's more, he climbed with little more than old hemp ropes.


ERNEST SHACKLETON

Shackleton's 1914-17 Antarctic exploration is the classic in terms of inspirational leadership in the face of unbelievable agony. He endured his boat being crushed by ice, living on a tiny iceberg, crossing the freezing ocean (twice) and traversing a mountain range - yet he didn't lose a single man.


JAMES RILEY

Riley's cargo ship ran aground off the coast of north-west Africa in 1815. He and his men were captured by Sahrawi tribesmen, believed to be cannibals. They were kept as ******, dragged behind camels across the sand. Eventually Riley was ransomed and sent home, but his weight had fallen from 17st to barely 6st.

RANULPH FIENNES

His unsupported walk across Antarctica via the South Pole in 1992-93 with Mike Stroud is the benchmark for modern exploration. They were frostbitten and starving when they were discovered. The pain, the blisters - Fiennes (above left, with Stroud) fought it all with a level head and a determination to battle on. An inspiring story of human endurance.


CORNELIUS ROST

Rost was a German soldier taken prisoner by the Russians in 1945. He was sent to a gulag in northern Siberia, where he worked at the face of a lead mine for four years. But he escaped and survived being chased across Siberia by Cossacks, crossing Russia, Mongolia and Central Asia, reaching Iran in 1952.


DOUGLAS MAWSON

Mawson got into trouble in the Antarctic in 1912, when a member of his three-man sledging team fell into a crevasse with most of their rations. He and the other man, Mertz, were forced to eat their dogs - ingesting toxic levels of vitamin A. Mertz went mad and died; only Mawson made it, driven on by the desire to propose to his girlfriend. He's an unsung hero.

WILLIAM ASH

Ash was a WWII pilot who was shot down and sent to a POW camp. This place was hell, but it was next to another camp full of Russians that was even worse. The Russians were being starved to death. Ash realised that because they were so weak, the Germans didn't guard them as well, so he swapped places with a Russian. After months of agony he eventually got out, and was sheltered by nuns. However, he went mad with fever and walked straight into a Gestapo HQ. He was skinned, soaked in brine, his fingernails were pulled off, but he still never spoke of the nuns who sheltered him.

SIMON MURRAY

A girl rejected Murray's proposal of marriage when he was 19. His reaction? 'I'm going to go and join the Foreign Legion - that'll teach her.' The Legion was at its most brutal at this stage, the early Sixties. Simon went through so much pain and suffering, but he went on to found Orange and make his fortune.

CHRIS RYAN

I know Chris and he's a good guy. In the first Iraq war, he was a member of the Bravo Two Zero patrol. When the mission went wrong, Chris evaded capture and trekked 200 miles without food or water, through hostile terrain, to escape. It's one of the great SAS

I read bravo two zero
Chris is a legend in his own right
Great post
Having heard of most but I'm gunna look em up
Thanks
Green k

[Keleneki]

Cool. I love reading about warriors in the past. Too many of them from the past for me to choose a number one, but here are a few interesting ones.

Xiahou Dun. Got shot in the eye with an arrow while on horseback. Pulled the arrow out, ate his eyeball and continued to fight for Cao Cao, whom we know from Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

Galvarino. Captured by the Spaniards in Chile and they chopped his hands off. Strapped on blades to his stumps and started jabbing enemies in the throat. Real life wolverine.

Melankomas of Caria. I wonder which of his techniques were lost in time. Olympic champion. Slipping punches, unbreakable defense... it would have been something to watch him box in those first Olympics.

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Cain Valasquez.

[*TonyMontana*]

Cool. I love reading about warriors in the past. Too many of them from the past for me to choose a number one, but here are a few interesting ones.

Xiahou Dun. Got shot in the eye with an arrow while on horseback. Pulled the arrow out, ate his eyeball and continued to fight for Cao Cao, whom we know from Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

Galvarino. Captured by the Spaniards in Chile and they chopped his hands off. Strapped on blades to his stumps and started jabbing enemies in the throat. Real life wolverine.

Melankomas of Caria. I wonder which of his techniques were lost in time. Olympic champion. Slipping punches, unbreakable defense... it would have been something to watch him box in those first Olympics.

Green k for the art of war mention
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