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Wingsuit flying certainly captured folks' attention when it first hit the mainstream around the turn of the millennium, sparking a wave of GoPro and Red Bull videos. Human flight had never been so ...

PARIS (AP) – The French town of Chamonix, deep in the shadow of Mont Blanc, has always embraced danger. Climbers scale Europe’s highest peak in dire conditions. Backcountry skiers risk avalanches or ...

Researchers are challenging the myth that extreme sports enthusiasts push themselves to the max and take risks no matter what the consequences. Researchers from Leeds Beckett University are ...

At Pedra do Penedo in Brazil, a massive rope swing launches straight into a wingsuit flight, blending two extreme sports into ...

*Update 01.06.2017: Fraser Corsan has broken the world record for greatest speed flown in a wingsuit. He reached 249mph during his flight - beating the previous record of 234mph. The record is subject ...

Strong, unpredictable winds turn this wingsuit flight into a fight for control. Pushing through violent air currents, the ...

(AP) The extreme sport of wingsuit flying that killed British stuntman Mark Sutton this week involves a special aerodynamic jumpsuit developed about a decade ago. It creates fabric batwing sleeves ...

Climbers scale Europe's highest peak in dire conditions. Backcountry skiers risk avalanches or falling off cliffs. But the arrival this summer of the wingsuit flyers offered peril on an entirely new ...