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World records

February 2024

  • A brown dog sat on grass with tongue lolling

    Bobi the Portuguese mastiff stripped of record as world’s oldest ever dog

  • A tiny bat; a frog on a US dime coin; a hand in weed that looks like pea soup, a chameleon on a fingertip; and an iridescent blue hummingbird.

    The age of extinction
    Who’s the smallest of them all? Meet the world’s amazing tiniest creatures

January 2024

  • Chef Failatu Abdul-Razak attempts to break a Guinness world record for marathon cooking in Tamale, northern Ghana.

    Chef in Ghana aims to break world record with 120-hour cookathon

    Failatu Abdul-Razak is being cheered on and widely celebrated in west African country

December 2023

  • Harpreet Chandi on south pole ski expedition

    British soldier claims record for fastest woman to ski alone to south pole

    Capt Harpreet Chandi ‘so glad’ after covering 1,130km of Antarctic ice in 31 days, 13 hours and 19 minutes

July 2023

  • The Mud Crab, a repurposed landcruiser, is alleged to have broken two world records crossing a 7km body of water in Darwin over the weekend.

    Darwin divers drive a ‘mud crab’ LandCruiser underwater for 7km – and perhaps into the record books

  • Chris 'Cam' Cameron, wearing sunglasses, stands on the island of Rockall

    High waves foil Rockall adventurer’s effort to retrieve survival gear

June 2023

  • Chris Cameron

    Man hoping to break record for living on Rockall rescued by coastguard

    Chris ‘Cam’ Cameron, 53, calls for aid after 30 days because of ‘declining weather conditions’
  • drone image of rock with camping bod and men on it

    Gales forecast as adventurer reaches halfway point in bid for Rockall record

    Scottish teacher Chris ‘Cam’ Cameron revises down attempt to stay on Atlantic outcrop to 50 days

    • Experience
      Experience: I built a house of cards 50 storeys high

    • The Guardian documentary
      Burned to the Ground: the Canadian village incinerated by record temperatures

    • The Guardian documentary
      Burned to the Ground: the Canadian village incinerated by record temperatures

May 2023

  • The islet of Rockall

    Sixty days on a ledge in the Atlantic: teacher aims to break Rockall record

    Chris ‘Cam’ Cameron ready to set sail for barren rock 230 miles from nearest permanently inhabited place

January 2023

  • Rumeysa Gelgi, the tallest woman in the world. photographed in San Jose, California November 2022

    Experience
    Experience: I am the tallest woman in the world

    My rare genetic condition makes travel tough, but last year I took a plane for the first time – lying horizontally

December 2022

  • Joe Kittinger after his skydive from 19.5 miles above sea level in 1960. The retired air force colonel, whose record jump stood for 52 years, has died of lung cancer aged 94.

    Joseph Kittinger: highest skydiver for 52 years dies aged 94

  • Jonathan in the grounds of Plantation House, home of the governor of Saint Helena.

    World’s oldest recorded tortoise prepares for 190th birthday party

November 2022

  • Danny Dorling

    Don’t panic about the birth of Baby 8 Billion. Before he’s 65 our numbers will be in reverse

    Danny Dorling
    We should not be alarmed at the rise in global population; it’s inequality, greed and waste that are the real problems of our age

October 2022

  • People named Hirokazu Tanaka gather in a Tokyo cinema for their successful attempt on the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of namesakes.

    178 Hirokazu Tanakas set new namesake-gathering world record

    Joint effort marks climax of one Hirokazu Tanaka’s decades-long dream and pushes 164 Martha Stewarts into second place
  • Duane Hansen in his pumpkin patch

    Experience
    Experience: I paddled a giant pumpkin down a river for 11 hours

    I had to keep the pumpkin upright, steady on bends and away from obstacles
  • Scott Andrusz, right, poses with the record-setting pumpkin in Clarence, New York, on Saturday, 1 October 2022.

    Monster 2,554lb pumpkin breaks US record

    ‘Every time she’s thirsty you gotta go give her a drink’: details of gourd’s diet and battles against ‘animals and critters’ in top bid

August 2022

  • Mack Rutherford.

    ‘Absolutely amazing’: Teenager becomes youngest person to fly solo around world

    Belgian-Briton Mack Rutherford, 17, encountered sandstorms and extreme heat on flight through 52 countries
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