There is an excellently (way beyond her years) written account of a young Englishwoman who went to Mongolia at 19 and won a cross country race. The story of how she bluffed and cajoled her way in is amazing in itself, but her writing is on another level above even good writers. https://nypost.com/2019/05/11/how-a-teen-became-the-first-woman-to-win-the-grueling-mongol-derby/ Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
Wow! In my Hawaii days, I saw some big stuff at Waimea Bay in the Winter ("Aleutian Power" coming down from the storms up in Alaska), but nothing remotely like this. You die if you wipe out on that one. It didn't show the start of the ride, but surely he was being towed by a jet skier.
For those who believe in this sort of thing, that cat must have been possessed, or guided, by an angel or something.
JF Never can have too many dog stories. My Vet has a plaque , "Everyone thinks their dog is perfect and they are right"