Mount Taranaki in New Zealand photographed spectacularly from space. Once mooted as a location for the Lonely Mountain In the Hobbit Trilogy, a digital mockup of Mount Cook was used instead.
Never mind that. Here’s the new Desolation of Smaug trailer anyway.
A photo of legendary French mountaineer Gaston Rebuffat (1921-1985).
Subsequently used as the cover image for his book La Montagne Est Mon Domaine.
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Mountaineer Mark Roberts slipped and tumbled down Paisley Fern Gully in Wales. Thanks to his helmetcam, which recorded the whole ordeal in stomach-churning detail, he survived with an intact skull and nothing more than a few cuts and bruises.
In 2010, extreme unicyclist Lutz Eichholz landed the highest recorded unicyle drop in history.
Last year – apparently recovered from what one can only assume to have been extreme perineal trauma – he and fellow one-wheeled thrill junkie Stephanie Dietze made a 3011m descent in the dolomites.
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Madrid’s Longboard Girls Crew do their thing.
“Talented female skaters have been practicing and competing at a professional level since the 1960’s, yet the sport still continues to be plagued by the usual gender stereotypes. [We were] tired of being always a minority in male dominated crews, understood that something had to be done to fill a void existing within the world of longboarding: an international female longboarding community.”
You go, longboard girls. 23,000 Facebook fans can’t be wrong.
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A short film by Felix Urbauer showcasing the skills of MTB free-rider Andi Wittmann.
Track: Welcome Home, Son by Radical Face
