Similarly Rajesh Magar, the unlikely mountain biking star who Dan Milner met on his incredible odyssey in Nepal, would probably find it odd that he had been singled out as special – despite the fact that his lung capacity is off the chain and his riding ability far outstripped that of his more experienced European expedition mates. We might see all the obstacles stacked up against someone like Rajesh and conclude that he must be superhuman to overcome them, but he doesn’t view it like that, he’s just worked that much harder to get where he is.

The same is true of Tilly Tasker, who this month wrote an inspiring account of what it’s like to snowboard when you’re profoundly deaf. She finds people who assume her disability is a major disadvantage annoying, writing: “Just because I can’t hear doesn’t mean that I am not capable of tearing it up in the park, playing cat and mouse on the singletrack, and pushing my body and my mind to its constant limits”.

You might think that hearing these people talk through their achievements would somehow lessen them. As if by explaining how they got there it might remove some of the magic. But if anything, the opposite is true. Reading about the likes of Rajesh, Sam Hardy or Wheelz makes you realise that their seemingly superhuman abilities aren’t just god-given powers from the planet Krypton. They’re the result of incredible hard work, passion and dedication – things we can all aspire to emulate. Knowing this only makes their stories all the more inspiring.