Gallery: Adrenaline-Pumping Photos From Some of the World's Biggest Thrill-Seekers
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*Photo by Benjamin Ginsberg* *Surfer Bobby Okvist airs off the back of a wave in Newport Beach, CA.*
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*Photo by Martin Lugger* *Florian Ebner on a highline in the Austrian Dolomites.*
LUCAS GILMAN03Red Bull Athlete Rafa Ortiz Runs the 128.6 foot tall Big Banana Waterfall in Vercruz Mexico.
*Photo by Lucas Gilman* *Red Bull athlete Rafa Ortiz nabs a first descent of the 132.5-foot-tall Big Banana Falls in the State of Veracruz, Mexico.*
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*Photo by Juan Cruz Rabaglia* *An ice cavern underneath Patagonia’s Perito Moreno Glacier.*
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*Photo by Paul Bride* *Hanging ice dagger situated in the middle of a steep rock wall at Ghost River in the Canadian Rockies, AB, Canada.*
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*Photo by Rainer Eder* *Austria’s Anna Stöhr climbs at a car dump in Thörishaus, Switzerland.*
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*Photo by Stuart Gibson* *Ryan Hargrave in Namotu, Fiji*
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*Photo by Scott Serfas* *John Jackson snowboards in the Tordrillo Mountains in Alaska.*
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*Photo by Ryan Taylor* *Ben Horan carving through a flooded cranberry field in Manitowish Waters, WI.*
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*Photo by Krystle Wright* *BASE jumper Michael Tomchek takes a 400ft leap off Castleton Tower in Castle Valley, UT.*
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*Photo by Dave Lehl* *Andy Orley flies off his skateboard while skating down the famous* Forest Gump *road in Monument Valley, UT.*
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*Photo by Rafal Meszka* *Freediver Emilia Biala in Dahab, Egypt.*
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*Photo by Stuart Gibson* *Surfer Sean Woolnough off of Namotu Island, Fiji.*
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*Photo by George Karbus* *Kate Hamsikova freedives with a wild bottle nose dolphin off the coast of Ireland.*
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*Photo by Scott Dickerson* *Stand up paddle boarders surf the Turnagain Arm bore tide in Alaska.*
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*Photo by Jody MacDonald* *Gavin McClurg flies over the Bazaruto Archipeligo in Mozambique.*
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*Photo by Florian Breitenberger* *Xavier "Sherwy" Pasamonte at the Nine Knights Mountainbike event in Austria’s Wildkogel.*
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*Photo by Ray Demski* *Bernd Zangerl during a bouldering trip to the Indian Himalayas.*
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*Photo by Elias Kunosson* *Fredrik Berggren in Åre, Sweden.*
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*Photo by Christian Pondella* *Tim Emmett climbs Helmcken Falls, located in Wells Grey Provincial Park in British Columbia.*
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*Photo by Sterling Lorence* *Matt Hunter does a 45-foot air to wall ride in Kamloops, BC, Canada.*
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*Photo by David Carlier* *Gary Edgeworth goes over Mesa Falls in Targhee National Park in Idaho.*
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*Photo by Jaanus Ree* *Gard Hvaara at Simple Session, one of Europe’s biggest skateboarding & BMX contests.*
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*Photo by Claudio Casanova* *Snowboarder Philipp Schicker photographed through a 10kg crystal ball in Oberiberg, Switzerland.*
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