While his children are also dangerously close to the ledge, one of them asks the heartbreaking question that viewers have too: “What if you fall off, Daddy?”
It is very rare and special to see footage captured from a drone that goes above the clouds and over the tallest mountains on Earth.
Climbing peaks in the Alps has been compared to playing “Russian roulette” for social media-inspired mountaineers without an experienced leg to stand on.
The winners of the International Photography Contest of Mountain Activity (CVCEPHOTO) show us some of the epic conditions and heights reached as an extreme mountaineer.
As more and more people tackle the world’s highest peak, some of whom are very inexperienced, the mountain claims more lives.
Climbing Everest is no small feat, and those who reach the top usually return to great fanfare. Except when they’ve staged the whole thing.
If there’s one thing you can count on us humans to do it is trash just about any and every environment put in front of us. Oceans, tick. World’s highest mountain, tick.
Hugh Herr lost both his legs after a climbing expedition when he was a teenager. However, that has not stopped this inspirational guy in pursuing his passion in life: mountain climbing. His latest adventure involved scaling a 61 meter cliff, with one of his prosthetic legs even falling off in the process, for the TV show Who Says I Can’t? He was joined by the show host, leg amputee Jothy Rosenberg, who lost his limb to cancer aged 16.