Danny MacAskill and Bethany Hamilton

Danny MacAskill and Bethany Hamilton are two unbelievably brave athletes who love being outdoors. Both have known success and failure in their lives. Danny MacAskill is a talented cyclist who flips off buildings and rides trains on his bicycle. He has often fallen out of trees and crashed since he began extreme cycling. He’s been very lucky- serious accidents often happen to athletes, but he has only broken a few bones and 12 helmets. Every time he’s in hospital, he thinks of new places to ride. Born in 1985 in Scotland, he loved cycling as a child, but he never expected to be famous. Then, in 2009, a video of him appeared on YouTube and was watched 27 million times. In 2012, he became a National Geographic “Adventurer of the Year”. Super- cool surfer Bethany Hamilton was born in Hawaii in 1990. She was already an extremely skilful surfer at the age of eight. But in 2003, when she was just 13 years old, a shark attacked her and she lost her left arm. Just one month after her injury, she was back in the water. Since then, she has learnt to surf with one arm. She needs more strength in her legs than other surfers because she has only one arm, but she has won competitions. She has written a book about her accident. The book became a film in 2011.