I have done a great many stupid things in my life: hiking deep in the Canadian Rockies without a map, drinking a large bottle of Robotussin in one swig, eating six hot dogs right before my SATs. But I have never done anything even remotely as dumb as these Aussie cliff-swingers. Ladies and germs, I now present for your viewing pleasure…. the Death Swing.
Noah Shachtman is a contributing editor at WIRED and a contributing writer for The New York Times’ opinion section.
Shachtman previously served as editor in chief of Rolling Stone, where he led the storied outlet to a Polk Award and its first-ever Emmy nomination. Before that, he was the editor in ... Read More
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