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Inspired by https://patrickcollison.com/fast, this list tracks outlier acts of determination – the peaks of human will power.
- Roger Bannister
- Ran the first 4 minute mile in history, a now more commonplace feat that shows the ‘curiously elastic limits of human performance’
- 1,497+ humans have run a 4 minute mile since
- Robert Moses
- Tenzing Norgay
- The sherpa who first summited Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary
- 6,098+ humans have summited Everest since
- shackleton
- abraham lincoln
- churchill (2x: escape from south africa + ww2 early days, try for 3x with bridge jump)
- US Grant
- Karl Schwarzschild
- TO COME