Luca Joel Koller was riding in Switzerland when 30 seconds into his run he found himself facing a rather steep rock crevasse he was unable to avoid. He plunges in, lands on his feet, and manages to get his board off and use it to help him climb back to safety. This is one of those cases where things could have gone much worse. The fall comes at :30, and you’ll see him make his way out over the rest of the video. It’s not going to win any cinematic awards, but it’s better than watching him hang upside-down in the crevasse until his GoPro battery runs out.

The Mount Marathon race can be, well, dangerous. During the men’s race a 66-year-old man disappeared on his way back down the 3,022ft peak and is still missing, presumed dead. The point of the race is to be the first one up and then back down the mountain, a total of about three miles of [ more... ]

A Russian BASE jumper took the plunge from a 120-meter high electrical pylon and ran into some parachute troubles on the way down. I wonder if his friend jumped down after him or decided to take the ladder. The BASE jumper was going around 106 miles per hour when he hit the ground, and soft snow saved the day. The man survived but broke his legs, pelvis, and some vertebrae. Three months after the Wile E. Coyote landing he was up and walking again.

A fly fisherman along the Platte River in Denver walked across a bike path trailing his line behind him. Then just when a cyclist was about to come past—riiiip. The cyclist thought he was the victim of a booby trap until he found out about the fisherman. The biker lost control and crashed ending with [ more... ]

A 63-year-old mountain guide was on a solo tour in the Pyrenees when he spotted an aluminum tube resting in the snow. He recognized it as an avalanche charge fired from a compressed air cannon, so he gave the tube wide berth. In an extraordinary fit of bad luck, the charge blew up just as [ more... ]

A hiker in the Cascades Blewett Pass accidentally shot himself in the butt with a handgun. He wasn’t engaged in some sort of frat hazing incident – he was just trying to find a comfortable way to carry his firearm. He switched it from his holster to his back pocket, and discovered it was actually [ more... ]

A cyclist riding the wrong way down a one-way street clobbers an old guy trying to cross the street. Instead of punching the hell out of each other, going to jail, and then making a couple lawyers rich by settling it in litigation, they simply agree that they’re both kind of jerks and move on. [ more... ]

A 17-year-old hiker crashed through the woods and over a 200-foot cliff surviving with little more than a broken face and body. Granted, that’s a pretty bad injury, but at least he’s alive. He also got on the news! That’s pretty exciting for a teen. Catch the exciting video at KATU. via Backpacker