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Extreme sports

July 2024

  • A man and a woman hold onto a ladder and each other as they scale the side of a building

    Skywalkers: A Love Story review – ‘rooftopping’ couple chase thrills in Netflix documentary

  • Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus kiss on the very top of a tall building

    ‘It’s easier than life on the ground’: meet the Russian climbers who fell in love scaling the world’s skyscrapers

June 2024

  • Former Olympic rower James Cracknell in front of racks of rowing boats at Crabtree Boat Club in west London

    Fascinating Olympians
    ‘The man who used to be James Cracknell’: the Olympic rower on catastrophe, comas and comebacks

    With two Olympic golds under his belt, Cracknell was building a second career as an endurance athlete when disaster struck. He discusses relentlessness, running for the Tories – and his disgust at Partygate
  • Prince William, King Charles, Queen Camilla and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with his wife Akshata Murty applaud at a D-Day event in Portsmouth

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde on Sunak and class, my parachute failed at at 4,000ft, my gaming-addicted son, and a new approach to quitting smoking – podcast

    Marina Hyde on poor Rishi, who had to go without a Sky subscription as a teenager; Chris Godfrey spent a decade trying to quit smoking, then he tried hypnotherapy and it changed his life; when Jordan Hatmaker pulled the string of her parachute, she realised something was very wrong; and ‘My grownup son is gaming all day and lives on takeaways’ - Philippa Perry offers advice to a mother
  • Jordan Hatmaker, photographed in Virginia Beach

    How we survive
    I jumped from a plane – and my parachute failed. As I hurtled towards earth, I felt oddly calm

    At 4,000ft, Jordan Hatmaker pulled the string and realised something was very wrong. With the speed of her descent increasing, she braced herself for impact

May 2024

  • The amazing world of sport
    Skydivers fly through London's Tower Bridge – video

  • Man wearing goggles and helmet with sky in the background

    Texas man reclaims world’s oldest skydiver record at 106 years old

March 2024

  • Jérémie Heitz and Sam Anthamatten mountaineering in Pakistan

    The Audio Long Read
    Precipice of fear: the freerider who took skiing to its limits – podcast

    Jérémie Heitz has pushed freeriding to breathtaking, beautiful new extremes. But as the risks get bigger, the questions do, too. By Simon Akam

January 2024

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    The long read
    Precipice of fear: the freerider who took skiing to its limits

    The long read: Jérémie Heitz has pushed freeriding to breathtaking, beautiful new extremes. But as the risks get bigger, the questions do, too

December 2023

  • The amazing world of sport
    Daredevil wakeskates across rooftop pool and base jumps off the edge in Dubai – video

  • The amazing world of sport
    Ice-swimming enthusiasts in Siberia brave the season’s first freezing dip – video

November 2023

  • The amazing world of sport
    'Like kayaking on another planet': Kayaker achieves historic 20m glacier waterfall descent – video

  • A portrait of Preet Chandi partly in the shadow of a tree

    Experience
    Experience: I walked 922 miles across Antarctica, solo, in 70 days

October 2023

  • Kirke in later life

    David Kirke, performer of world’s first modern-day bungee jump, dies aged 78

    A pioneer of the Dangerous Sports Club at Oxford University, he jumped off Clifton Suspension Bridge in 1979
  • Dorothy Hoffner, 104, skydives with tandem jumper Derek Baxter on 1 October at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois.

    Chicago woman who skydived at age 104 has died: ‘She was indefatigable’

    Dorothy Hoffner passed away in senior community before Guinness Records could certify her as world’s oldest skydiver
  • Hoffner falls through the air with tandem jumper Derek Baxter on 1 October 2023 at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois.

    ‘It was wonderful up there’: 104-year-old aims for world’s oldest skydiver record

    Dorothy Hoffner, who first skydived at 100, left her walker on the ground and made the 13,500ft tandem jump in northern Illinois

July 2023

  • The amazing world of sport
    Skydivers complete largest ever sequential formation dive in new British record – video

    Formation skydiving refers to the practice of falling belly to earth and taking hold of one another to create shapes, all while falling at speeds of around 120mph.

May 2023

  • Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse / Rachid Ouramdane, Corps extremes. Nina Caprez on the wall and Nathan Paulin on the highline. The other person in the air is Airelle Caen.

    ‘The first feeling is fear’: the daredevil group bringing ropewalking and climbing to the theatre

  • Dieumerci Yanga with Ghazala Tanveer, his support worker from the charity Sense, at the Saif Boxing Academy in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

    ‘It proves he is capable’: the extreme sports offering release for disabled people

April 2023

  • The amazing world of sport
    BMX rider tackles the world’s first floating skatepark – video

    By joining forces with Red Bull Advanced Technologies, Kriss Kyle challenged conventional BMX boundaries by elevating the sport to staggering heights
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