Extreme sports
Inside one 66-year-old runner’s gruelling 217km journey through ‘hell on Earth’
This retiree feels “at home” when he’s traversing one of the hottest places on the planet as part of the world’s toughest ultramarathon. Even when it makes him hallucinate.
- Dorany Pineda, Ty O'Neil and John Locher
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Perth man killed BASE jumping – two years after friend’s similar death
James Nowland was a good friend of Jay Driscoll, who died in a BASE jumping accident at the same location just two years prior.
- Hannah Murphy
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
‘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
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
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- Victoria Police
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
‘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
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
‘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
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- Good Weekend
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
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