Karapetyan happened to witness the accident while jogging with his brother. In 1976, a trolleybus crashed from a dam wall and plummeted into the water from 25 meters above. But he is known for a heroic rescue which ended his career. Shavarsh Karapetyan is an Armenian fin swimmer and a 17-time World Champion. Even though the bullet detached half of his face, he recovered and died of natural causes in 2002. After several failed attempts, they successfully discharged a bullet in his left jaw in March 1940. The Soviets then began to prioritize Hayha's murder. He was awarded with an honorary rifle on 17 February 1940. The Finnish newspapers created a heroic myth based on him as the "invisible Finnish soldier". Another one of his discussed moves was to place snow in his mouth while sniping, to prevent steamy breaths giving away his position in the cold air. This wasn't his only winning tactic he stuffed his clothes with snow to provide padding for his rifle and prevent a bullet from piercing him. He was in head-to-toe in white costume during the winter war (temperature were between -40 ☌ and −20 ☌) to camouflage himself from the rival troops. During this very war, he broke the existing record for highest number of sniper kills in any major war with a headcount of 505 men in 100 days. Simo HäyhäĮasily amongst the most top mentions while discussing skilled snipers, Simo Häyhä was nicknamed “White Death” by the Red Army mainly for his contribution in the 1939–40 Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union. She later worded her experience in, 'When I Fell From the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival'. This was how she survived to tell the story. After nine days in the rainforest, Juliane found a boat belonging to lumbermen. While searching for other survivors she discovered two things a box of sweets, which was the only food she consumed during her escape and that she was the only survivor out of 92 passengers. Her landing in the rainforest left her with a broken collarbone, a wound on her arm and a swollen shut eye. The then seventeen-year-old Juliane fell from about 3 km after her plane was struck by lightning. Juliane Koepcke (born 1954) is a German biologist who is famous for surviving a plane crash. This is the map of the area covered by a barely alive Glass. The man inspired not one but two movies 'Man in the Wilderness' (1971) and 'The Revenant' (2015). During his six-week peregrination, he consumed rattlesnakes, berries, roots and a stolen bison calf from two wolves. To impede gangrene infestation on his wounds, he allowed maggots to eat his dead flesh. That was a distance of 200 miles (320 km). Glass gained consciousness after a while, wrapped his body parts in the bear hide and began his crawling expedition along the banks of the Cheyenne River all the way till he reached civilization. They even covered his body with a bear hide as a funeral shroud. The attack was so severe that his fellow trappers left him behind with the intention of escaping Native Americans. In his early 40s, he was attacked by a grizzly bear in Grand River in 1823. Hugh Glass, a man whose tombstone rightly reads “Adventurous”. Then what is it? The stories of these people are real-life examples of what courage and bravery actually mean. It is not associated with gender, age, success or even brilliance. Badassery is a quality very few can claim to have.