March 21st, 2014
World high-diving champion Orlando Duque enlisted the help of local people as he prepared to jump 35 metres from a tree directly into the Peruvian Amazon river. Duque, a Colombian national uses a rope ladder to climb on top of the Caucho tree, considered the most representative tree of the Amazon forest. “The view from […]
March 14th, 2014
Mike Wilson and Andrew Kirkpatrick travelled to South Africa to build ‘the most insane rope-swing bungee jump ever!’ The daredevil duo succeeded in their challenge to plunged 600ft straight down into the Magwa Falls Gorge. Not for the faint-hearted, the jump features four seconds of pure, hair-raising free-fall. Not sure we would take the plunge […]
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March 7th, 2014
Forget the traditional 11-sided game of football that we all know and love – Residents of Ashbourne in Derbyshire took part in the annual Shrovetide football game, said to be the world’s oldest, largest, longest and maddest game of footy. The game is played between the Up’ards and the Down’ards, those born north and south […]