How Safe is Bungee Jumping?
When we bungee jumped not so long go with The Big Air Company at Victoria Falls, it seemed to us extraordinary that you were putting all your faith in a bit of strapping around your ankles and a long cord
How Centre of Gravity Affects Your Rock Climbing Performance
How often, when rock climbing, do you snatch desperately at an elusive handhold because your body is straining with exhaustion and you need to take the pressure off your legs or your arms? Do you understand perfectly where your centre of
A Solemn Warning To Wingsuit Flyers
Geoffrey Robson was a qualified mechanical engineer and mathematician who happened to love to wingsuit fly. The fantastic video below (fmalan1) taken in early April, shows Robson opening a new route from the Groot Drakenstein mountains above Boschendal, near Stellenbosch, South
Dwain Weston : His Last Jump in Videos – “Whatever Happens Happens”
Dwain Weston's Last Jump: What Happened Dwain Weston was an Australian BASE jumper, skydiver and wingsuiter. Weston had completed over 1200 base jumps around the world, including Jumping from the 73rd floor of the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, with hardly a
Kenton Cool summits Everest for the 9th time… to prove a point
Kenton Cool, 37, from Gloucestershire, does not balk at a challenge. When the BBC said in October last year that you would be able to receive a radio signal at the top of Everest, he decided to check that out. Kenton
The North Face of the Eiger, Switzerland
The most notorious mountain in the world – its iconic vertical mile of brittle limestone and ice, called the North Face, is the ultimate challenge for many a mountain climber. But even some of the greatest mountain climbers in the