How One German Unicyclist Takes His Talent To New Heights
Unicycling along a mountainside? This 26-year-old is a natural.
1. Here’s extreme unicyclist Lutz Eichholz. In 2010, he landed the highest-recorded unicycle drop in history.
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2. These days, he gets his thrills by unicycling through the Dolomites in northeast Italy.
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3. He was hooked after meeting an extreme unicyclist during a trip to China some years back.
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4. Eichholz has been unicycling since he was nine, but he became tired with the same old routines and tricks.
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“At first, when I was looking for something challenging, my friends and I took to the parks where skateboarders and mountain bikers were doing tricks,” he told a German newspaper.
5. Eichholz plans on retiring soon and completing a degree focused on urban planning.
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6. With views like this, it’s hard to believe he’ll ever give up this extreme sport entirely.
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