Paddle if you dare

Paddle if you dare

Bells Beach is still a mighty sight and justly famous. A wild and dangerous beach,it is not for the casual swimmer. This is the surfer’s domain.

  • bySonia Harford

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Japanese climber on Mount Fuji may have live-streamed his own death

Japanese climber on Mount Fuji may have live-streamed his own death

A man's body has been found on Mount Fuji,two days after a climber live-streaming a solo winter ascent was seen dramatically falling.

  • bySimon Denyer
Investigation into high-ropes incident with schoolboy concludes

Investigation into high-ropes incident with schoolboy concludes

Marist College Ashgrove boy Connor Petterson was airlifted with a collapsed lung on May 23 after the incident at Adventure Alternatives'Woodford campus.

  • byJocelyn Garcia
Mystery on the mountain:Climbers find skeleton,but no-one can ID it

Mystery on the mountain:Climbers find skeleton,but no-one can ID it

Tyler Hofer and his companion discovered human bones on Mount Williamson,California's second-highest peak. But nobody can identify the mysterious remains.

Mountain madness:the fatal attraction of Everest

Mountain madness:the fatal attraction of Everest

The mystique of the world's highest peak draws ever more climbers – despite human traffic jams and soaring death tolls.

  • byJane Cadzow
A YouTuber whose'mad science'experiments drew billions of views has died in a paraglider crash

A YouTuber whose'mad science'experiments drew billions of views has died in a paraglider crash

Jonathan Grant Thompson's amiable combination of edgy science,zany tutorials and easy-to-follow explanations proved a viral recipe on YouTube,where his channel built an audience of more than 11 million followers.

  • byTim Elfrink
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World's greatest living explorer pays tribute to man who inspired it all

World's greatest living explorer pays tribute to man who inspired it all

English hero Sir Ranulph Fiennes travelled to Auckland this week to honour the man who opened his world,Edmund Hillary.

  • byRyan Anderson
High-wire walkers safely cross Times Square 25 storeys up

High-wire walkers safely cross Times Square 25 storeys up

Siblings walked across each other from opposite ends of a 396-metre wire suspended 25-storeys high.

Nepal waits for relatives to claim bodies brought down from Mt Everest

Nepal waits for relatives to claim bodies brought down from Mt Everest

The corpses,retrieved as part of a clean-up of the world's tallest mountain,lie unclaimed in a hospital morgue in Nepal's capital,Kathmandu.

  • byGopal Sharma
Four bodies recovered in massive clean-up operation on Mount Everest

Four bodies recovered in massive clean-up operation on Mount Everest

Melting snow reveals the frozen bodies of four people on Mount Everest,with authorities saying they do not know when the mountaineers died.

  • byGopal Sharma
State against state,man against beast:bull riding gets Origin buzz

State against state,man against beast:bull riding gets Origin buzz

Despite the clear acceptance that every ride could be their last,these guys keep saddling up for what they hope is one more eight-seconds of glory.

  • byMichael Gadd