Every day some strange videos go viral on social media, but recently such a feat came to light that everyone was stunned to see. This story is of a person who did something not for likes and views, but due to his hard work and passion, which left people stunned. Think about it, usually people use their feet to climb to the top of the mountains, but this person accepted this challenge with the help of his hands and conquered the heights of the mountains.
Yes, Sun Guo Shan of China demonstrated his extraordinary ability and proved that if you have passion and confidence, you can make even the impossible possible.
A strange and dangerous challenge
Sun Guo Shan, 38, started practising handstand climbing in May 2023, but his real challenge began when he decided to climb the 50 highest mountains in China by 2025. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Sun realised the importance of health and took on this unusual challenge to improve his physical stamina.
Handstand Climb
Sun Guo Shan started his astonishing challenge in May 2024. But people were stunned when a video of him created a storm on social media in November 2024. In this video, he was seen climbing to the top of the 1,612 meter high Wudang Mountain on his hands. Imagine how difficult and unbelievable it was.
999 stairs and hand climbing
Sun Guo Shan recently took up the challenge of climbing the 999 steps of Tianmen Mountain on his hands. After five hours of hard work, he successfully completed it. Sun said that this mountain was the most difficult one he had ever climbed, as he had fallen here about a hundred times. But, his passion gave him the strength to get up every time.
【Video】Amazing skills! A Chinese mountaineer named Sun Guoshan recently challenged himself to a handstand climb up of the 999 steps of Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, C China's Hunan Province. The climb is nearly 300 meters long, with a vertical drop of 150 meters. It took him… pic.twitter.com/dNiP3PSxA4
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) December 11, 2024
People's reactions on social media
This video was shared on the ECNS Facebook page, and within no time millions of people watched it. People are giving their reactions to this strange and unbelievable feat. One user wrote, "This person is not a human, but a robot!" While another said, "What a thing! There are such people in this world!" And a user commented, "They are Chinese people, they can do anything."