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SNOWBOARDING Snooow-exciting… There’s nothing to beat the adrenaline rush of “surfing” the fresh powder as you slide and float down a mountainside on your board—a thrilling combination of skateboarding, surfing, and skiing. Best not to take any foolish risks, though—avalanches and giant tumbles can prove fatal. PARCOUR Leap walls, scale buildings, run across rooftops, and jump from obstacle to obstacle with only

BUNGEE JUMPING Launch yourself into empty space with only an elastic cord attached to your feet and wait for the rebound. Crazy or what? The first loony leapers were Pacific Islanders who jumped from cliffs with liana vines tied to their ankles. Today, bungee jumpers fling themselves from tall structures all over the world. DIRTBOARDING Too warm for snowboarding? Why not try your hand (or should that be foot?) at dirtboarding? A dirtboard, which

FREEDIVING Take a deep breath and hold it for up to eight minutes—or longer, if you fill your lungs with pure oxygen first. Freediving is underwater diving without any breathing apparatus and is the closest you will get to swimming like a fish. Some freedivers descend to mind-blowing depths of 328 ft (100 m) or more.

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