Extreme sports are highly popular among young people today. These sports include a wide variety of activities--from surfing and skateboarding to mountaineering and parachute jumping--but one characteristic unites them all: their inherent risk of injury.

Get your adrenaline pumping with this guide to extreme sports! Discover awesome facts, stats and rules of snowboarding, skydiving, BMX, rock climbing and more.

Provides information about the world of extreme sports, from skateboarding and cave diving to freestyle BMX and hang gliding.

Ride the massive open world of steep, where the powder is always fresh and the run never ends.

Maya Farlow learned the hard way to depend only on herself, so when she fell too deeply for the bad-boy charms of Del Mitchell, one of five brothers, she did the only thing she could--she ran. Stunned, Del left Fool's Gold to make his name and fortune in extreme sports. Now ten years later, Maya's been hired to promote her hometown's new slogan, The Destination for Romance. The celebrity spokesman is none other than Del, the man she dumped but never...

Tackle today's toughest races while learning fractions! Marvel as contestants around the world climb, crawl, run, and jump through the world's toughest marathons and obstacle courses. This book combines mathematics and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples of problem solving to teach math and language arts content. Students will learn fractions while engaged in reading high-interest content. The glossary, index, and table of contents...

Soar through clouds while flying ultralight airplanes. See close-up photos of these unique and amazing planes.

Overcoming vertigo - and countless injuries which left him officially 60% disabled - the 'Real Spiderman' has scaled over 70 skyscrapers worldwide: from the Petronas Towers in Malaysia to Taipei 101, from Chicago's Sears Tower to Canary Wharf in London. Reward and punishment have been received in equal measure - the flamboyant Frenchman has gained international fame and raised thousands of pounds for charity, but has also been arrested, beaten and...

As fast-paced as a freefall from a roaring airplane, as thrilling as a towering jump off a ski slope, Being Extreme is a fascinating examination of the adrenaline rush of extreme sports. Here is a world where living life on the edge is the only option, where you are only as good as your last jump . . . and where one false move can take you out of the game permanently. From mountain climbing and freestyle motocross to skydiving and snowboarding and...

Skateboarding: the background, technicality, culture, rebellion, marketing, conflict, and future of the global sport as seen through two of its most influential geniuses Since it all began half a century ago, skateboarding has come to mystify some and to mesmerize many, including its tens of millions of adherents throughout America and the world. And yet, as ubiquitous as it is today, its origins, manners, and methods are little understood. The Impossible...