Kiera, the celebration occurred at 260 hours, when Gardner matched Tom Rounds' record. Four hours later he was taken to the hospital. Making the total time awake 264 hours.

Alex, there was plenty of deception to go around in the Tasaday case, but the Tasaday themselves now appear to have been the least to blame. They were not local farmers, as the above blurb claims. They really were living a very primitive life in the jungle, as close to "Stone Age" as any group on the planet. But they were not as isolated as first reports claimed. They also hammed it up for the camera, because they liked the attention. But they didn't actually misrepresent who they were. Like I said, the whole story is told in detail in Hemley's Invented Eden.

The story of the Tasaday is far more complicated than indicated above. They were not a true stone-age tribe, but neither were they actors paid to pose as a stone-age tribe. The consensus now seems to be that they were extremely poor people, genuinely living a very primitive lifestyle, who got swept up in global events and were manipulated by almost everyone they met: scientists, politicians, and the media. Robin Hemley examines this complicated story in his book INVENTED EDEN. I've tried to summarize the story on my website. I should note that I've been guilty myself of telling the Tasaday-as-a-hoax story, but since reading Hemley's book I've been trying to help set the record straight.