Meet the real life X-Men - six astonishing super-humans

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They are real life X-Men – the human fish who can spend five hours a day underwater and the man who never feels pain.
Then there’s the runner in his 50s who can keep going all day without stopping and the man who knows no fear.

The fearless man

Eskil Ronningsbakken pulls off amazing balancing acts at incredible heights without a flicker of fear.
The Norwegian’s jaw-dropping stunts have included walking on a tightrope between two hot air balloons, balancing on a bike on a wire 3,280ft above a fjord and doing a handstand on a pile of chairs, on a rock, wedged over a 3,500ft drop.
Scientists say he doesn’t register fear normally. He doesn’t produce excess adrenaline and his heartbeat remains the same whether he’s on dry land or balancing at death-defying heights.

Eskil Ronningsbakken

 

The incredible ­running man

Dean Karnazes, 51, has muscles that never seize up, allowing him to run for longer than anyone else could even dream about.
He never hits “the wall” like other runners as his body is ultra-efficient at flushing away lactic acid.
He has run 350 miles in 80 hours and 44 minutes without sleep, completed a 135-mile ultra-marathon and run a marathon in 50 US states on 50 consecutive days.
Some believe he could run continuously for months at 10mph, only stopping to sleep.

The leg of the ultramarathon athlete Dean Karnazes

The human fish

The Bajau Laut live in stilted villages in South East Asia and spend five hours every day submerged in water – the same as sea otters. They even suffer from land-sickness.
They are known for their free diving. One man with a single breath can remain submerged for five minutes. They can also stride across the ocean floor as if they are hunting on land.
Perhaps even more incredible, Bajau Laut children have developed sight twice as strong as normal under water.

The Iceman

The real-life Iceman Wim Hof has an uncanny ability to withstand freezing temperatures – and 20 world records to prove it.
They include the longest time spent in an ice bath – 1 hour 13 minutes and 48 seconds – and running a marathon above the Arctic Circle wearing only shorts.
His heart rate and temperature remain normal, but he seems able to regulate his body functions – a skill he puts down to meditation. So it may be all in the mind.

The Little Hulk

Liam Hoekstra from Michigan in the US, was born five weeks premature and doctors worried about his size.
Yet by five months he had developed abs and could not only walk, but carry his entire weight on his hands. He was soon working out in the gym to burn off excess energy.
The reason was myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy, where a lack of proteins fail to regulate muscle development.
There are no detrimental effects for Liam, now eight.