Saturday, August 24, 2013
Bungee Jump in a Volcano
Well, this is really something a bit special bungee jumping into the smoking, bubbling, active volcano close Pucn, deep in the Patagonian Andes of Chil - a seriously awesome venue!
And how do you get there? Helicopter of course and you hop from the skids of the helicopter no way youll be standing on the lip of the volcano.
Ok, so youre obviously not going to dip your head into the molten lava you will be 700 ft above it so no singed hairs which will be a relief, but the adrenaline kick will be out of this world. The helicopter flies into the caldera of the volcano and it is from there that you will bungee jump. The jump itself is less than 122 metres, but the slip leaves adventurers hovering just 213 metres above a pool of bubbling, red-hot lava. To date, there have been no reported fatalities from the Villarrica jump! thats re-assuring
This photo is pretty incredible but you will be hanging directly over it with this bungee hop: the undisputable hop of a thousand lifetimes tell the organisers. Perhaps this is the time to be wearing a GoPro?
Its not cheap this jump; $12,500 per person, but you might consider that money well spent!!! The company you have to contact is bungee.com defining adventure and how
And there are other things to do while you are there. Pucn, 100 km to the southeast of Temuco and 780 km to the south of Santiago, with its lake, volcano and remarkably stable weather, is a very popular tourist destination (which is perhaps something you didnt desire to hear), but it is one of Chiles most well known adventure centres. As well as doing this most weird bungee jump, you can water ski, snow ski, white water raft, kayak, try out a variety of zip line rides or just chill out in natural warm springs or chill out in those natural hotsprings after youve dangled head down into the bubbling maw!
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
Extreme sports Spain
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Windsurfing Costabrava Spain
The Costa Brava, Spain is blessed with a typical Mediterranean climate, giving you access to one of the biggest natural playgrounds for adrenalin enthusiasts. Extreme Sports Cafe's partner Spanish Windsurfing centre is located in L'Escala on the Costa Brava and wind surfing lessons are held in the Bay of Roses from May till end of Sept. The Bay of Roses is a paradise for learning and practicing all sorts of water sports and is an ideal location to learn windsurfing.
An important fishing town and holiday resort, L'Escala is located at the southern end of the Bay of Roses on the Costa Brava coastline of Catalonia, north-eastern Spain. L'Escala is one of the smaller holidays resorts in the Costa Brava/Catalonia region - it is not far from the border with France and is perfect for families and independent holidaymakers wanting to avoid the mass-market package holiday resorts. You will soon discover that L'Escala is an excellent base to discover the mostly unspoiled northern Costa Brava, beautiful beaches, art, historic monuments, nature parks and one of Spain's most important wild bird reserves is situated a few miles to the north of town.
The area around L'Escala is ideal for sports enthusiasts and there are plenty of facilities for water sports lovers including sailing, snorkelling, windsurfing and jet-skiing, other sports also well-catered for include fishing, walking, cycling and golfing.
The well-known Costa Brava, Costa Blanca and Costa del Sol coasts enjoy the warmer Mediterranean waters (over 20C in summer) and have miles of superb beaches that make these areas the most appealing to both visitors and expats alike. Wind surfing in the Bay of Roses is superb. From March to October the bay is blessed with great thermal side-onshore winds from 10 knts +, while the famous Tramontana blowing strongest in the spring and autumn can produce winds ranging from 20 knts up to 70-80 knts. Your best chances of catching the thermal winds are between May and September.
The Wind surfing courses vary with the level of requirement, teaching beginner windsurfing courses to have you up and windsurfing in no time to intermediate wind surfing courses pushing people into the harness and getting on a smaller board, to the more advanced like learning that first forward loop!
There is a small bay well sheltered from waves and wind making it an ideal beginners centre for sailing and windsurfing throughout the day as well as for water skiing in the morning and evening. Once out of the protection of the small bay, towards the centre of the main bay of Roses, it is fully open to the sea and the wind so on a good summer day, the thermal wind can reach up to 4 or even 5 on the Beaufort scale. For more information click here
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Extreme Sports List
In the past, cataloging an extreme sports list was easy — there wasn’t much to work with. A skateboard here and a parachute there. Now, curating a list of extreme sports is much more difficult, what with sports like bossaball, ZORB globe riding, WiSBASE and trampoline bridge jumping. I know, this whole extreme sports thing is getting a tad ridiculous. We love it.
Aside from keeping track of the new and zany fringe extreme sports, there’s the matter of opinion. Is skateboarding an extreme sport? What about open-water swimming? I imagine the level of extreme-ness matters, but even that can be arbitrary. Some sports are undoubtedly extreme, but many of them, well, it simply depends. Does hopping on a mountain bike and taking a nicely groomed single-track trail through the woods count as extreme? I’m not sure. But this gut-wrenching and insane video of a Chilean downhill race — THAT IS EXTREME. Don’t get me started with semantics.
Extreme Sports list
Friday, November 16, 2012
Felix Baumgartner Stratosphere Jump
Felix Baumgartner born 20 April 1969 in Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. He set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres (24 mi), reaching an estimated speed of 1,342 kilometres per hour (834 mph), or Mach 1.24, on 14 October 2012, and became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power on his descent. He is also renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career. Baumgartner spent time in the Austrian military where he practised parachute jumping, including training to land on small target zones.
Baumgartner's most recent project was Red Bull Stratos, in which he jumped to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 2012. As part of this project, he set the altitude record for a manned balloon flight, parachute jump from the highest altitude, and greatest free fall velocity.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Zorbing ball
Effectively throwing yourself down a slope in a giant ball, or ‘Zorbing”, is one of the latest extreme sport craze to sweep the world. This bizarre sport, invented in 2000, involves a giant plastic ball, which has two skins, one inside the other. The person zorbing is in the area between the skins, which is pumped up with air. The middle ball effectively suspends them on a cushion of air 700mm off the ground and the ball is then rolled down a hill.
Like a number of other extreme sports, such as bungee jumping, zorbing originated in New Zealand. There are two different ways to zorb - either harnessed inside the ball, or "hydrozorbing", which involves putting water in the ball, which zorbers can slide around on as it revolves.
Here's an extreme sports list if you want to know more
Here's an extreme sports list if you want to know more
Friday, September 21, 2012
Train surfing
Train Surfing
So what is Train surfing?
Usually an illegal sport, train surfing involves riders climbing or "surfing" on the outside of a moving train or subway. The practice is a serious issue in South Africa, where many young people have been killed or injured. The 'sport' was made popular in the 1980s in Germany, where it was called "S-Bahn Surfing". The phenomenon was then forgotten, but in 2005 it was rediscovered by a gang from Frankfurt, Germany. The leader of the crew who called himself "The Trainrider" famously surfed the InterCityExpress, the fastest train in Germany. What do you think about train surfing? Would you dare try it?
Want to learn about other extreme sports?
-Banzai Skydiving
-Zorbing Balll
-Train Surfing
-Sky surfing
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