Gunther Holtorf’s 23-year road trip

This Mercedes Benz G-Wagen, affectionately named Otto, has carried Gunther Holtorf and his wife Christine on an incredible 500,000 mile journey around the world.In 1989, Gunther Holtorf and his wife Christine climbed aboard their 1988 Mercedes Benz G-Wagen to travel from Germany to Africa, where they planned to complete a once-in-a-lifetime road trip that would last 18-months.Except the trip didn’t last 18-months, it has lasted 23 years, spanned more than 200 countries and the G-Wagen now has 800,000 kilometers, or 500,000 miles, on its odometer. That’s the equivalent of 20 times around the equator.

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Cage Of Death In Australia

 

Cage Of Death In Australia

 

 

Would you like to try this one? Swimming with crocodiles.

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That’s What Happens When You Get Really High

That’s What Happens When You Get Really High

A GIRL who spent four hours smoking super-strength skunk cannabis had to be rescued when she climbed a 40ft electricity pylon after hallucinating that it was a bridge.Horrified locals spotted the 21-year-old girl – from Zlin, Czech Republic – apparently trying to cross a river and dialed emergency services.Police spokesman Jan Macalikova said: “It was a nightmare because she was very much under the influence of drugs and wasn’t making much sense. “She was convinced, though, that the pylon was a bridge across the Morava river.”Drugs counsellors and police eventually persuaded her to come down after two hours on the pylon.“She received treatment at hospital for her drugs consumption but was otherwise unhurt. She’s lucky she didn’t get a new high – high voltage,” added the police spokesman.

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Hunters for Honey

Hunters for Honey

Hunters For Honey Learn-to-user dementievskiy wrote in his blog: Today we are going in Nepal, Annapurna mountain range area in the main Himalayan range,where Every spring the locals skillfully extract the honey of wild Himalayan bees.

Twice a year high in the Himalayan foothills of central Nepal teams of men gather around cliffs that are home to the world's largest honeybee, Apis laboriosa.As they have for generations, the men come to harvest the Himalayan cliff bee's honey.

For hundreds of years, the skills required to perform this treacherous task have been passed down through the generations.But now both the bees and traditional honey hunters are in short supply, according to scientists.

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A miracle indeed

 A miracle indeed

It happened on a mountain road near the great city of Chongqing. Two huge rocks came down the mountain and crushed five cars. One of the rocks, estimated to weigh 200 ton, hit a truck loaded with 400 yellow boxes of beer, the truck and the beer were sadly destroyed. There was some good news too. Nobody died and only three people were injured. A miracle indeed. A smaller rock, weighing about 100 ton, hit the road first and blocked it. People managed to get out of their cars and run for cover before the big one fell. They must be shaking a bit, longing for a beer, which in this case they CANNOT get.

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A Man Miraculously Survived After Jumping In Niagara Falls

A Man Miraculously Survived After Jumping In Niagara Falls

A man in his 40s plunged at least 180 feet over Niagara Falls in an apparent suicide attempt, but survived and was lifted to safety during a harrowing rescue. The unidentified man was only the third person known to have gone over the falls without a safety device and lived.

Niagara Parks Police say witnesses reported seeing the man climb over a railing at 10:20am on Monday and "deliberately jump" above Horseshoe Falls and into the Niagara River.

The man was conscious and talking at first but got quiet. He appeared to have chest injuries, including broken ribs and a collapsed lung, Breathtaking images showed the victim and his rescuer dangling high above the falls by an aerial fire truck.A waiting helicopter flew him to a hospital, where a spokeswoman said he has critical but non-life-threatening injuries, which was echoed by rescue personnel.Niagara Parks Police say it appears the jump was a suicide attempt. It was the first time since March 11, 2009 that someone survived a jump into the falls.

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Spiderman Free-Climber

Spiderman Free-Climber

Mich Kemeter is a world expert at free solo climbing, a discipline where participants forgo essential safety equipment in search of that extra adrenaline rush.The 23-year-old was pictured in the Verdon National Park, France, by mountain adventure photographer Alexandre Buisse, who takes extra care not to put him off in case he falls to his death.

 Free-climber Mich Kemeter hangs over the edge of a 500ft cliff in the Verdon National Park, France, by the tips of his fingers without any ropes. As a free-climber, Mich does without the essential safety equipment preferred by mere mortals to give him that extra adrenaline rush.

'Mich is a free solo climber and one of the best in the world. In some of the photographs you can see he is wearing a backpack, that actually contains a parachute which he can use if he does fall off, just like Mission Impossible really.'

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Land Diving

Land Diving

Land diving is a special tribal ritual that looks like bungee jumping. Young men climb to the top of a wooden tower and jump down head first. A tree vine prevents a certain death.

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Tightrope walk across Niagara Falls

Tightrope walk across Niagara Falls   

It may not have been the most appropriate choice of phrase. But when Nik Wallenda was told he was to be allowed to attempt a tightrope walk across Niagara Falls, he said: ‘I’m thrilled to death.’

If the 33-year-old daredevil survives his 1,800ft-long walk on a two-inch thick rope over the famous site, he will become the first to ever achieve the feat. The stunt will take up to 40 minutes through mist and spray, 220ft above the bottom of the gorge.

Mr Wallenda, who lives with his wife Erendira and their three children, has been tightrope-walking since he was two. In 2008 he walked and then cycled across a high-wire suspended from skyscrapers in Newark, New Jersey. The feat won him a place in the Guinness Book Of Records for the longest and highest bicycle ride on a high-wire. He currently holds six Guinness World Records.

Nerves of steel: Nik Wallenda will
be the first to tightrope walk over
the falls for a century.

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Bodysurf the Wedge

 Most of the time, when humans mess with nature, they lose. But at the Wedge, a monstrously big and powerful break off Newport Beach, California, they hit the jackpot—for bodysurfers, that is. There, an Army Corps of Engineers jetty relays big swells, forming slow-moving, pyramid-shaped waves that, during South Pacific storm cycles, can top 30 feet (9 meters). They’re too steep for surfers but perfect for the ultimate man-versus-nature contest: bodysurfing.

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