Gallery: Adrenaline-Pumping Photos From Some of the World's Biggest Thrill-Seekers
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*Photo by Benjamin Ginsberg* *Surfer Bobby Okvist airs off the back of a wave in Newport Beach, CA.*
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*Photo by Martin Lugger* *Florian Ebner on a highline in the Austrian Dolomites.*
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*Photo by Lucas Gilman* *Red Bull athlete Rafa Ortiz nabs a first descent of the 132.5-foot-tall Big Banana Falls in the State of Veracruz, Mexico.*
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*Photo by Juan Cruz Rabaglia* *An ice cavern underneath Patagonia’s Perito Moreno Glacier.*
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*Photo by Paul Bride* *Hanging ice dagger situated in the middle of a steep rock wall at Ghost River in the Canadian Rockies, AB, Canada.*
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*Photo by Rainer Eder* *Austria’s Anna Stöhr climbs at a car dump in Thörishaus, Switzerland.*
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*Photo by Stuart Gibson* *Ryan Hargrave in Namotu, Fiji*
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*Photo by Scott Serfas* *John Jackson snowboards in the Tordrillo Mountains in Alaska.*
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*Photo by Ryan Taylor* *Ben Horan carving through a flooded cranberry field in Manitowish Waters, WI.*
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*Photo by Krystle Wright* *BASE jumper Michael Tomchek takes a 400ft leap off Castleton Tower in Castle Valley, UT.*
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*Photo by Dave Lehl* *Andy Orley flies off his skateboard while skating down the famous* Forest Gump *road in Monument Valley, UT.*
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*Photo by Rafal Meszka* *Freediver Emilia Biala in Dahab, Egypt.*
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*Photo by Stuart Gibson* *Surfer Sean Woolnough off of Namotu Island, Fiji.*
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*Photo by George Karbus* *Kate Hamsikova freedives with a wild bottle nose dolphin off the coast of Ireland.*
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