21. Mauro Prosperi
He was competing in a 6 day run in the Sahara desert but got trapped in an 8-hour sand storm. He got lost during the race for 10 days. He resorted to drinking his own distilled urine eating bats, bird eggs, beetles. This happened in 2014. The marathon he ran was called Sahara Marathon and is known to be the toughest foot race on Earth. The race covers 156 miles. The race happens in Morocco. He found an 8-year-old girl tending to goats, who he begged for help and she took him to her family and they took him by camel to the nearest village after giving him some goat milk. Prosperi had traveled 180 miles into Algeria.
