David Kirke’s old chums found the peaceful circumstances of his death last month — in bed, at age 78 — paradoxical. “He could have been killed at least 20 or 30 times many years ago,” his friend ...

An extreme sport had an extreme result for Mark Afforde. The 49-year-old Bellevue, Wash., man went thrill-seeking with his buddies on an afternoon of bungee-jumping Thursday, but he nearly ended his ...

Right before you work up the nerve to leap off a bungee-jumping platform and plummet toward the Earth, there will be a sharp, measurable increase in your brain activity—almost a full second before you ...

MILFORD, Conn. (WTNH) – Bungee jumping typically involves extreme heights and a leap of faith. Now you can experience the push, pull, and fun of bungee in exercise form. The Girl Spot in Milford, CT ...

TFIL heads to Mendoza, Argentina, to confront their biggest fear: bungee jumping from an old and sketchy bridge. This adventure captures their reactions as they engage in extreme activities in a ...

A land diver with a pair of vines tied to his ankles jumps from a 30-meter-high platform on the Vanuatuan Island of Pentecost as part of an ancient land-diving ritual called nagol — the precursor to ...

New Zealander Henry van Asch was bumming around the ski slopes of Wanaka in the 1980s when another adventurous Kiwi persuaded him to try a strange new extreme sport. Hurl yourself off a bridge, said ...

Psychiatrists and neuroscientists have for the very first time succeeded in measuring the readiness potential, outside a laboratory and under extreme conditions, namely prior to a 192-meter bungee ...

Immediately before a person decides to launch themselves off a bridge for a bungee jump, there is a measurable increase in their brain activity. This can be recorded nearly one second before the ...