He crossed a 210-foot-long rope between 2 cliffs sans a harness or safety net. — -- Spencer Seabrooke recently had the free solo slacklining experience he'd been looking forward to since he ...

A world champion slackliner has become the first person to cross the Strait of Messina by foot, covering a distance of more than 3 km along a strip of material less than an inch wide. Jaan Roose, 32, ...

VAIL – There’s a new sport at the Teva Mountain Games this year that’s been picking up steam all over the United States, with one major catapult into the mainstream happening recently at this year’s ...

The Eagle County resident has been slacklining half his life — for reference, he's only 25 — and there are few days you won't find him balancing high above the sage brush in Colorado's western ...

Breannah Yeh isn't just an extreme-sports influencer who posts viral videos of herself balancing on a 1-inch-wide nylon rope high above national parks, major cities, even crashing waves. She's also an ...

Kiavash Sharifi can hardly describe the feeling of tip-toeing across an abyss on a thin ribbon of webbing that bends ever so slightly downward. The 22-year-old is one of a growing number of Iranians ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Slacklining has achieved the recognition that assures its arrival as an outdoor sport: it has been banned by officials at some of the colleges and parks where the test of balance is ...

Slacklining is a sport and art that can be a balance training, recreation, and a moving meditation. It is similar, at first glance, to tightrope walking, and is accomplished by stretching a 1”– 2” ...

To understand slacklining, think of tightrope walking, with two huge distinctions: Slackliners walk on flexible, sagging nylon or polyester webbing rather than on taut rope; and slacklining isn't much ...

(VANCOUVER, Canada) — Spencer Seabrooke recently had the free solo slacklining experience he’d been looking forward to since he started the sport more than three years ago. On Aug. 2, at Squamish’s ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Kiavash Sharifi can hardly describe the feeling of tip-toeing across an abyss on a thin ribbon of webbing that bends ever so slightly downward. The 22-year-old is one of a growing ...