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Author
Publisher
Human Kinetics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Scaling walls, crawling through mud, climbing ropes, and sprinting across rugged terrain. Obstacle course racing is one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States, and it's gaining popularity around the world. The sport is grueling, demanding, and intensely satisfying if you prepare, train, and know what to expect. The Essentials of Obstacle Race Training can ensure you will be ready. Authored by David Magida, founder of Elevate Interval Fitness...
6) Mountain
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Only three centuries ago, setting out to climb a mountain would have been considered close to lunacy. Mountains were places of peril, not beauty, an upper world to be shunned, not sought out. Why do mountains now hold us spellbound, drawing us into their dominion, often at the cost of our lives? From Tibet to Australia, Alaska to Norway armed with drones, Go-Pros and helicopters, director Jennifer Peedom has fashioned an astonishing symphony of mountaineers,...
8) Parkour
Author
Series
Publisher
AV2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Experience the rush of the world's most daring sports in the Extreme Adrenaline series"--
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Published to coincide with the show's tenth anniversary, an official behind-the-scenes guide shares stories from its hosts, creators, and top contestants on how American ninja warriors train on the show's legendary obstacle courses.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew diaries volume 25
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nancy investigates the disappearance of the bride while attending the wedding of her friends Bess and George's cousin Veronica's wedding to the owner of local extreme sports complex in Las Vegas.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"What is the allure of the extreme? Who are the women who seek out and excel at sports outside the conventional, such as cave diving, wingsuit flying, or Formula 1 racing? This collection of female adventure dynamos is as fascinating as it is empowering. Thrill Seekers introduces readers to a diverse and fascinating selection of women whose determination, grit, and courage have propelled each of them into a life far from the sidelines. Each chapter...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press, L.L.C
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 10 thrilling real-life adventure stories, pioneering whitewater explorer Wick Walker examines what lured a generation of incredibly daring pioneers into some of Earth's most wondrous yet forbidding river canyons: below Victoria Falls on the Zambezi, the Great Bend of the Tsangpo in Tibet, Tiger Leaping Gorge on the Yangtze, the flanks of Mount Everest, and more. Loaded with great moments and personal stories, Wick details what these adventurers...
Author
Publisher
Falcon
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Riding tubes in Venezuela. BASE jumping in Europe. Climbing big walls in Yosemite. Riding bulls in Texas. These first-person stories from John Long, while vastly different in content, share an identifiable emotional texture, tone and delivery, and fundamentally are of one piece. This is storytelling at its best nonfiction that reads like fiction. In Stories from the Dirt the action leaves you breathless, but it s the characters that really leave the...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"How do you pick extreme sports GOATs? Is it snowboarder Chloe Kim or skateboarder Tony Hawk? Or maybe it's BMX legend Dave Mirra. With so many sports, how do you choose? It comes down to stats, history, and hunches. Read more about some of the legends of extreme sports and see if you agree that they're the greatest of all time"--
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