I’m not letting Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Tweet ruin my Felix high: “The “Edge of Space” jump: A corresponding fall to a schoolroom globe begins 1 millimeter above its surface. I’m just saying.”

Sure, maybe it wasn’t ‘space’ but it was a pretty nerve-racking feat. You can see a tiny blip in this video that looks like a spinning, very far away speck plummeting to Earth at a tremendous rate. There were a couple hiccups, including Baumgartner saying his helmet wasn’t heating up during the asscnet, and of course the several days of delays. At least he didn’t get halfway up and realize he’d forgotten his chute; that would have been rough.

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Four months pregnant, BASE jumper Wioletta Roslan was going to make one last leap from her favorite cliff, Sweden’s Via Ferrata, until after her baby was born, despite being begged by her mother not to jump. Sadly, you know where this is going. Roslan’s chute didn’t open and she fell 1,000 feet to her death. [ more... ]

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Do yourself a favor and skip to 1:30 in this video. “World record-holding highliner” Faith Dickey walks a rope strung between two semi trucks as they speed towards a tunnel. Will she make it before they hit the tunnel breaking her line in half? (Yes, you definitely would have already heard about this video if the woman died.) The stunt was setup by Volvo to promote their new semi-trucks…isn’t it odd they’re called “semis” when they’re big trucks? Shouldn’t El Caminos be called “semi-trucks”?

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When you haven’t seen the sun in over three months winter starts to feel like being buried alive. Antarctica-based doctor Alexander Kumar, originally from Derbyshire, UK, blogged about the sun dawning on his remote Concordia Station this past week: “Over the Great White Silence, the most magnificent sunrise unfolded before me over the cold, white, [ more... ]

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The 1,860-mile paddle hasn’t been done yet, but it’s also possible, thanks to climate change, which has diminished the minimum sea ice buildup over summer in the Arctic so much that a northern route across the top of North America that explorers dreamed of finding for centuries is actually appearing in our lifetime. Now a [ more... ]

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We always suspected that spear fishing must be more dangerous than using conventional hooks. And 16-year-old Yasser Lopez, who is recovering from having a three-foot spear shot through his skull, is perhaps the most extreme proof of that suspicion. Fortunately (remarkably) for Lopez, who underwent three hours of surgery, he’s not only going to live, [ more... ]

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Climber Steph Davis and husband Mario Richards have opened the first earth-based commercial tandem BASE jumping operation (an Idaho outfit uses bridges) in, of course, Moab. Skydiving boomed after tandem rigs were developed — “training” to be a passenger requires just 30 minutes — and there are now a half million tandem jumps in the [ more... ]

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The 45-year-old was found trapped in his car by heavy snow that completely obscured his existence. Doctors say his body probably went into a sort of hibernation, since temperatures have been as low as -20 Fahrenheit. The police didn’t identify him by name; he was found by passing snowmobilers who thought they had come across [ more... ]

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Bungee jumping is one of those pseudo sports that seems so unsafe you just assume that it is safe. Kind of like SCUBA diving or skydiving, where there are so many fail-safes and regulations that in spite of the great risk what you’re doing is quite safe. Not so with bungee jumping in Zambia, though the tourism minister would have you believe differently. This Australian tourist enjoyed a broken bungee cord and splash into croc-infested waters after working up the courage to jump over Victoria Falls.

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If the idea of battling through blowing snow and sub-zero temperatures while surfing sounds just a mite too burly for you, consider Scott Jones’ day last week, when a rip tied off Kodiak took him for a ride he couldn’t resist…to a remote headland where he was unable to paddle out from, because gale force [ more... ]

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