World's Largest Rope Swing
Remember the neighborhood rope swing you and your friends played on when you were kids? Well, these are your friends' children. After a kegger of Red Bull. Read More ›
Remember the neighborhood rope swing you and your friends played on when you were kids? Well, these are your friends' children. After a kegger of Red Bull. Read More ›
You don't play sports if you don't wanna sweat, but everyone can agree that badminton and rugby are two different…ballgames. Extreme sports up the ante, and if you're gonna suit up, you better know what you're getting yourself into. Read More ›
Ernest Hemingway once said, “There are only three sports: Bull fighting, motor racing and mountaineering; the rest are merely games.” The point being, Hemingway only thought it qualified as a sport if there was a good chance the sport would murder you at some point. If so, then mountaineering stands above the rest, as the most famous peaks are also those littered with the most bodies. So why do people keep doing it? Because it affords opportunities for inhuman displays of badassery.
File this under “Stupid But Bad-Ass”. Ueli Steck scaled a 4,000-ft high rock face on Mont Blanc, Europe's tallest peak, without the aid of ropes or a harness. The only equipment he used was a pair of pickaxes and crampons, the metal spikes climbers attach to their shoes. Watch Video ›
Two Brazilian artists take up residence on the side of a building, using climbing gear to go from “room to room.” If rent keeps rising in NYC, I might just have to staple my bed across from a bagel shop. View Image ›