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Photo of the Moment: Climbing Mount Ranier, Washington

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Aussies Are Undisputed Extreme Ironing World Champs

© ExtremeIroning.com A group of 72 Australians have been crowned Extreme Ironing champs after beating a Guinness record for ironing laundry under water. The feat was achieved when the 72 brave souls plunged into the murky waters off a pier in Melbourne. Extreme ironing, according to the Extreme Ironing Bureau, combines the “thrills of an outdoor […]

Canada’s ‘Hangboarding’ is Equal Parts Hang-Gliding, Snow Boarding and Sheer Lunacy

Hangboarding - a new craze coming to a ski slope near you - is a combination of hang gliding, snow boarding, and well, sheer lunacy. Basically, you climb on to the hang board which is an apparatus suspended from a crane like contraption. Once strapped in, you’re suspended in air above the board. […]

Skydiving Queenstown: An Acrophobic’s Rite of Passage

Nestled against violet mountains on the South Island of New Zealand lies the self-proclaimed “Adventure Capital of the World”: Queenstown. This alpine resort town has it all – a pristine recreational lake, nearby ski slopes and the gateway to some of the most scenic hiking trails on the planet. On almost every street, advertising brochures […]

China to Permit Athlete Blogging at Beijing Olympics

China’s backing of inaction against Sudan hasn’t left the Olympics untouched - Steven Spielberg, a former artistic consultant for the Beijing Olympics, decided to sever his ties with the Games in protest against China’s backing of the regime. To add to this, athletes from several countries have set up a Team Darfur to protest […]

Cycling Scotsman Pedals ‘Round the World in 195 Days

Cycling Hawthorne Bridge, Portland © stop.down After braving snakes, heat, floods, and saddle sores for 195 days, 25 year old Mark Beaumont from Fife completed his around-the-world journey on his bicycle, beating the previous record of 276 days. The journey which began on the 5th of August last year had Mark cycle his way through 20 countries […]

Adrenaline Rush: The Geek Sport of Speedcabling

© Jaako Trust an IT guy to devise a new “game” that has people detangling Ethernet cables, and calling it a “sport.” Los Angeles native, Steven Schkolne, devised the game called “speedcabling” in which contestants were given a tangled mess of eight Ethernet cables and asked to detangle them. The contestant who detangles the cables in the […]

Youth Camel Hunting on the Rise in Australia’s Aboriginal Communities

© BntAl3nabi Forget adrenaline sports – a new initiative to relieve frustrated Aboriginal youths in the interiors of Australia has them hunting and butchering camels. Substance abuse and alcoholism are rampant among teenagers in remote Aboriginal settlements like Kintore, where there are hardly any (legal) recreational opportunities to speak of. This has worried substance abuse task […]

Perfecting Chinese Smiles in Time for the Olympics

Beijing is all wrapped in a flurry of activity before the Olympic Games open in June this year. Billions are being spent to ensure the city puts its best foot forward. Subways and roads are being spruced up, and entire neighborhoods have been razed to give the city a face lift in […]

Winter Surfing in Toronto

Winter isn’t the time you’d expect many people to be surfing, and much less in Canada which has some of the fiercest winters. For two Toronto based surfers however winter is the best time to don their neoprene suits and head out with their boards to ride the waves. Temperatures can be sub-zero, but Mark Karvonen, […]

Arctic Travel: Racing on Thin Ice

The sound of tiny spikes on wheels crunching through snow was the only sound we heard for miles. The dark umber landscape was caked in fresh, knee deep snow. An obvious glutton for frigid temperatures, I once again find myself adventuring through Lappland country not far from the Arctic. This time around, we had a date […]

Macau Offers World’s Tallest Bungy Platform [Video]

The Macau Tower offers bungy jumping from the 61st floor - 233 meters up. That’s almost 765 feet for the metrically challenged. You might want to bring a diaper. I’ll pass, thanks.

Red Bull Crashes Ice in Old Quebec

Billed as the world’s fasted race on skates, Red Bull Crashed Ice will kick off in Old Québec on January 26, 2008. An adrenaline packed combination of downhill skiing, boardercross and hockey, the race involves a mad descent down steep turns and hairpin bends, and has been dubbed by former ice hockey pro Charles […]

Woman Plans 250-Mile Bike Trek of Alaska’s Iditarod

The Iditarod has for decades been one of Alaska’s most iconic events. Mushers and dog teams race across more than a thousand miles of the region’s desolate landscape, fighting off challenges ranging from zero degree visibility, dangerous hills, steep slopes and icy winds. Not exactly a day of golf, and certainly not for […]

World’s First: Hang Gliding Over Mount Everest

Angelo d’Arrigo succeeded in flying the first hang glider over the summit of the tallest mountain on Earth.