Interesting Extreme Sports

Lots of people do sports in their free time, but these people do extreme sports!

Cliff diving

Cliff diving is a very exciting extreme sport and Cyrille Oumedjkane is an expert cliff diver. In this photo, he is in Kragero, Norway at the cliff diving World Series. He can jump between twenty and thirty meters into the water feet first. (Normal divers jump from ten meters or less and they jump into the water head first.) He can jump from any high place. ‘I cliff dive because I don’t like soccer. I like the adrenaline,’ he says.

High lining

You can ‘highline’ in lots of different places, but mountains are popular. You put a line between two high places and walk across. In this photo, American Andy Lewis walks above a canyon in Utah, USA. It is early evening so he can’t see well. Also the wind is strong so Andy can’t walk fast, but high lining is a great adventure.

Mountain biking

Perhaps you often go cycling, but how well can you cycle across the top of a 1,000 meter mountain? Professional mountain biker Kenny Belaey cycles across South Africa’s Table Mountain in this photo. ‘The landscape is perfect,’ he says.

Paragliding

In this photo Justin Ferrar flies in the mountains of Switzerland. The weather is perfect for paragliding and today it’s very peaceful. But paragliding isn’t normally relaxing! Extreme paragliders can fly over 3,000 meters high and very long distances (over 300 kilometers).