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Rhiannan Iffland has won eight consecutive cliff diving world championships all while nursing a fear of heights. Here’s how she does it.

Rhiannan started high diving in the circus. Now she’s an eight-time world champion

Rhiannan Iffland has won eight consecutive cliff diving world championships all while nursing a fear of heights. Here’s how she does it.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo

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Sydney Spartans Armwrestling Club president Oz Caglar hosts weekly training sessions the backyard of his home in North Rocks.

‘Test of strength dating back thousands of years’: Arm-wrestlers wanting to muscle in to the Olympics

From two guys in a Melbourne garage, arm-wrestling is growing in popularity and aspires for Olympic glory.

  • Andrew Taylor
Overcrowding on Mount Everest has led to an ever-growing amount of rubbish left behind.

Last survivor of Hillary’s Everest team says climbing must be scaled back

Kanchha Sherpa, 91, was among those who put Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay atop the 8849-metre peak in 1953. He says it is getting out of control.

  • Binaj Gurubacharya
Man free climbs a building in Melbourne.

French climber charged after scaling CBD high-rise without harness

Anthony Andolfo, who is in Australia on a 12-month tourist working visa, was charged with offences including reckless conduct endangering life.

  • Lachlan Abbott, Madeleine Heffernan and Alex Crowe
A hug on top of the world.

‘We both had a cry as we hugged’: What it’s really like to climb Everest

It’s 70 years since the world’s highest mountain was first conquered. It has become highly commercialised but many still die up there.

  • Tim Barlass
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Speedsters put the record straight at salt lake race city

Kylie Gray, 13: “I’m going to keep racing. I’ve got the need for speed.”

  • Tim Barlass and Dean Sewell
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John Winning Jnr at the helm and above it all.

‘Half a second from death’: When skydiving from a blimp and Sydney to Hobart collide

John “Herman” Winning jnr will skipper this year’s Sydney to Hobart favourite knowing he’s an adrenalin junkie, with the near-death experiences to prove it.

  • Dan Walsh

The December 3 Edition

Beers with Bono | Amy Taylor from rising punk rock band Amyl and the Sniffers | Lessons about lobster | Christmas feasting, reading and gift guides

The author tackles the 150-kilometre Red Bull 
Defiance event in north Queensland. Ultramarathons 
like these have seen a tenfold 
increase in participation 
rates over the past 20 years.

‘The worst kind of torture’: Why more over-40s are taking up extreme sports

Once the domain of young runners, ultramarathon events are fast becoming the go-to challenge for older people – particularly women.

  • Sarah Berry

‘Don’t jump!’ How this champion Aussie cliff diver quells her inner voice

What takes more mental acrobatics than a high diver’s twists and turns? For Rhiannan Iffland, it’s being the “dictator” of her fear.

  • Luke Benedictus

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