Sometimes you hear something so amazing that you just need to sit down, hang your head, and come to terms with it. That’s what I did when I read Kickass Trips recently and learned of Rosie Swale-Pope. In 2002, after … View article
Lukas Irmler slacklining over Cape Town
If, on a sunny day in the park, you’ve ever noticed someone hovering in mid-air between two trees, the chances are they probably weren’t hovering but were actually balancing on a slackline, having sneakily … View article
The Yamaha YZF R1 is a beast of a motorcycle. Riding it on ice is madness. Equipping it with insane, spiked tyres and then racing against a Porsche GT3RS on a full-size arctic race track is categorically amazing.
The track … View article
Through my window I can see frost glinting off car roofs, a frigid pigeon pecking at a frozen puddle, and Damoclean icicles hanging from gutters. In the bleak midwinter, I often find solace in the knowledge that our cousins in … View article
“When I’m older, I want to be a jetman,” I remember mentioning to my parents after seeing Michael Jackson exit the stage on his Dangerous tour.
“You’ll have to be a fighter pilot first, son,” muttered Dad over the top … View article
They are known as bartendaz, barstarzz, barbarians. What they do is bar hitting, ghetto workouts, freestyle calisthenics. Okay, so it may not really have a proper name yet, but it is nonetheless a display of strength and physical control to … View article
The Marathon des Sables (‘Marathon of the Sands’) is the world’s toughest foot race. This ‘ultramarathon’ – the equivalent of about six normal marathons – takes competitors 156 miles (251 km) through the Sahara desert in southern Morocco. It takes … View article
Climbing Everest is pretty amazing thing to do under any circumstances, but Göran Kropp was not content with ‘any circumstances’. The Swedish mountaineer was looking for a real challenge. So he decided to first cycle the 12,000km to get there. View article
If you look far enough back through the pages of Amazing Stuff, you’ll come to our first ever post, with the no-nonsense title, ‘Amazing bike video’. The hero of that video, Danny MacAskill, this summer appeared alongside various other amazing … View article