Jaan Roose creates history in Estonia wearing just the socks In a display of skill and balance, Estonian athlete Jaan Roose, who nabbed a world record by crossing the world's longest single building highline in Qatar last year, achieved another remarkable unique feat. Roose and team rigged a highline across the Valaste waterfall, Estonia's tallest cascade, before sliding, in his socks, across the frozen falls. This undertaking marked a first-of-its-kind endeavor, accomplished amid the stark and freezing conditions of Estonia's winter landscape. Jaan Roose, an Estonian slackliner, successfully concured a highline across the Valaste waterfall, Estonia’s highest, in extreme winter conditions. The highline was set at 50 meters above the ground, where Roose reached speeds of up to 22 km/...
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A 50-year-old Spanish extreme athlete emerged on Friday from a 500-day challenge living 70 metres (230 feet) deep in a cave outside Granada with minimal contact outside. Wearing dark glasses and smiling as she adjusted to the light of spring in southern Spain, elite mountaineer Beatriz Flamini told reporters that time had flown by and she did not want to come out. "When they came in to get me, I was asleep. I thought something had happened. I said: 'Already? Surely not.' I hadn't finished my book," she said. Beatriz Flamini, a Spanish mountaineer who has been isolated for 500 days in a cave is pictured during her daily life at the cave in Motril, Spain in this screen grab taken from a handout video in November 2021. Dokumalia Producciones/Handout via REUTERS Flamini's support ...
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