Thrilling Pictures That Will Make Your Stomach Drop

1. Cliff camping.

Jacob’s Well - One of the world's most dangerous diving spot

Jacob's Well in Texas Hill Country is a perennial karstic spring located on the bed of Cypress Creek in Wimberley. The mouth of the well is four meters in diameter through which thousands of gallons of water surges up per minute feeding Cypress Creek that flows through Wimberley, sustaining Blue Hole and the Blanco River, recharging the Edwards Aquifer, and finally replenishing estuaries in the Gulf of Mexico.

The well was first discovered in the 1850s when a couple of early settlers followed Cypress Creek to its source. They described the crevice in the creek bed which was overflowing with an abundance of clear, cool water as "like unto a well in Bible times." Since then, the location has been a beloved swimming hole for generations, a gathering place for Native Americans and early settlers, and a rich habitat for aquatic species. It is also a popular diving spot for thrill seekers despite the fact that at least eight divers have lost their lives here over the years.

 

700 Years Old Wooden Tourist Trek Up Thousands of Feet on Mountain in Chaina

These vertigo-inducing pictures show tourists navigating an extremely narrow and treacherous walkway along cliffs at a scenic mountain in China's Shaanxi Province. The precipitous Chang Kong Cliff Road on Haushan mountain was built more than 700 years ago by hermits seeking ‘immortals’ they thought were living deep in the mountains. The walkway is only a foot width wide and has been built clinging to the absolutely vertical cliff. One misstep would send pilgrims plunging thousands of feet down into the valley. These days, anyone brave enough to navigate the path does have to wear a special safety harness

Perhaps its better not to see? A daredevil visitor to Huashan Mountain's Chang Kong Cliff Road walks the narrow pathway in a dense mist which obscures the background... and the lethal drop below

The Stunning Mountain That Inspired Avatar's 'Floating Peaks'

There is a place in China where your breath will be taken away for hours. You will feel like being inside the Avatar movie surrounded by fantastic Pandora world and floating mountains. This place is called Zhangjiajie and it is located in Hunan province, China. Zhangjiajie is famous for its stunning mountains where the American blockbuster Avatar was filmed. If you have watched the movie, you should be able to imagine the beauty of this place. Nevertheless, watching a movie and experiencing it yourself in real life are two different things. Once you stand in front of the floating mountains you will be knocked out by its power of beauty. When it gets foggy the mountains look like they were slowly floating in the air and then falling to the ground. Don’t worry, no mountain will fall on your head, and there are no flying monsters, the rocks stand solid on the ground.

You can see this World Heritage Site in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. It takes pproximately 3 days to fully explore the area without missing anything important. The heights will leave you speechless, walkways on vertical cliffs built 800 meters above the ground. Thankfully you won’t have to climb it, there are cable cars, which connect the town with the mountain range. Chinese claim it’s the longest one in the world. At one point you can find yourself walking on the glass so look down, if you dare!

Kayak next to the lava

Imagine that you are floating in the kayak on the water at 50 degrees, and somewhere close by with a loud hiss in the water flowing molten lava of an active volcano. Do you think this is a terrible nightmare? A team desperate for paddlers from Brazil is just working life. Why not make that a good film?

  Pedro Oliva from Brazil swims just meters from the lava of Kilauea Volcano on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. He was part of an expedition to study the little-known routes for kayaking. (Alexandre Socci / Barcroft Media)

Kids Risking Their Lives to Reach School

For most parents and kids, crossing the street to catch the school bus is perhaps the riskiest part of the school run. But take a look at these Chinese schoolchildren from the village of Genguan. Everyday, these young kids walk along a precarious path carved by the side of a cliff, as they make their way to class in Bijie, in southwest China's Guizhou Province. Banpo Elementary School is located halfway up a mountain and the path to it winds through treacherous hillside passes and tunnels hewn out of the rock. The pebble-covered footpath is less than 0.5 meters wide, which means the children have to walk single file and press themselves into the side of the mountain if someone wants to squeeze past. This footpath was created 40 years ago as an irrigation ditch and although there is another safer route, but taking this means the children have to spend two hours to walk to school. The only assurance for parents is that Headmaster Xu Liangfan accompanies the 49 kids to school.

The American went on a rope across Niagara Falls

Famous American tightrope walker Nik Vallenda (Nik Wallenda) went over Niagara Falls on the rope, stretched at a height of over 50 meters. One end of the rope was attached to the United States, the other - in Canada. Kanatahodtsu had to overcome on the way to the raging waters of the length of 550 meters, in that it took him nearly half an hour.
Two regimes are allowed to violate the ban that exists on the holding of such stunts at Niagara Falls, to the hereditary kanatahodtsa, which six times found himself in the Guinness Book. Thus, Nick Vallenda the first person in 128 years to cross the waterfall is so risky way.

The Ten most Dangerous Airports to Land

We all love to travel and while most of our journeys are by air we tend to enjoy that. True enough, landing and take off in a jet plane is fun experience but if you have been to one of the following airports, I am sure you beg to differ. This lists brings for you the ten most dangerous airports to land in. The reasons include the length of the air strip, the location, the winds etc. Believe me, that heavy thud when the air plane touches the ground is nothing compared to what the pilot and the passengers go through while landing on one of the following air strips.

10. PRINCESS JULIANA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ST. MAARTEN

This is perhaps one of the busiest airports in the Caribbean. United States Airline, KLM Royal Dutch and Corsairfly are usual users of the airport. The air strip is about 7,152 feet long and was built for smaller planes to land on but it still used by 747s and A340s. The air strip is located right next to the beach, so if you are sun-bathing and tall,  make sure to not stand up. It can be very dangerous with the strong gushes of wind. Also, you need to stay clear of the engine exhaust. It can blow you away, literally.

10 Popular and Deadliest Suicide Points in the World

I would not like to linger on the point of explaining what suicides are and what makes people commit them because it is an immensely sad and depressing topic. So moving right along, I would like to add to your knowledge as to what are the most famous suicide points in the world. Yes you are right, I will point out the places in the world where people like to go to, which people actually prefer, when they get suicidal. If you have an impressionable mind I suggest you to not delve to long in this article.

10. AOKIGAHARA

This forest is present at the base of the famous Mount Fuji in Japan. Aokigahara is also lovingly known as the Sea of Trees. This place has been known to be home to quite a number of ghosts and a lot of paranormal activity has also been reported several times. It is quite the spooky place to be in and it has also been rumored that its caves remain icy cold. Even in the summers they are covered in icing. As far as the statistics are concerned, there have been a total number of 70 suicides reported in this haunted forest EVERY YEAR. It breaks my heart to know that so many people lose their lives mostly out of depression. And i am sure all those who die must be later on rumored to have been haunted and then taken away bu ghosts and other unknown beings. How terrifying is that.

Dakar Rally 2013

This year, racers in the Dakar Rally are more than halfway through their 8,000-mile journey. They travel via motorcycle, quad bike, car, or truck over extreme terrain in three countries in South America. Competitors and support crews come from more than 50 countries to challenge their mechanical, driving, and orienteering skills. The race kicked off in Lima on Jan. 5 and will wrap up this Sunday with the podium celebrations in Santiago, Chile. 

Excalibur The World's Tallest Climbing Wall

Towering over 121 feet (37 meters) in the air, the Excalibur at the Klimcentrum Bjoeks (Bjoeks Climb Center) in the town of Groningen, The Netherlands, is considered to be the tallest climbing wall in the world. What makes climbing the Excalibur a challenge, aside from the monumental height, is a sleek curve 36 feet (11 meters) out from the base that creates an artificial overhang as one encounters when climbing a real peak. Because of the curve it is possible to climb the tower in many different ways, each posing a different challenge.

At Bjoeks Climb Center, there is an array of indoor climbing walls, including one designed for first-timers and another that’s at a 45 degree angle. There’s also a large indoor-outdoor bordering area with 117 boulders to scamper over.The Bjoeks Climb Center was started in 1996 by Gert van deer Veen and his friend and climbing partner, Alco Pols.

River of fire

These astonishing aerial images captured by a NASA satellite reveal molten lava spewing from a Russian volcano that suddenly erupted after lying dormant for 36 years.The Plosky Tolbachik volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula burst into activity on November 27, sending clouds of ash almost 10,000 feet into the air, and leading some experts to warn it could go on to unleash an eruption as powerful as that seen from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokel in 2010, which caused more than a week of air traffic disruption.Lava flows pouring from the mouth of the volcano - which appear like a river of fire in one infra-red image released by NASA - are reported to have destroyed two research camps and forced schools in nearby villages to close.

A second visible light image again picks out the lava flows - this time as a river of darkness coursing from the mouth of the volcano, which was continuing to spew clouds of ash into the air a week after the eruption.The images were captured by the satellite last week, in the days following the eruption on November 27. A third, composite image released by NASA combines a picture of the volcano from July 19 with fresh infrared data from December 3, post-eruption.The earlier picture is used as the background, with vegetation highlighted in red, older lava flows in dark grey and snow in white. It has been overlaid with a night time thermal infra-red image, captured on December 3, which picks out the hot lava flows in bright yellow.Russian authorities have now downgraded Tolbachik's alert status from red to orange, according to a report on NBCNews.com. But experts are said to be continuing to monitor the volcano for signs of further activity.

One-Leg Grandpa Jumped with a Parachute

This grandpa is very cool. Aleksei Mikheev of Dokuchaevsk (Donetsk region) is 90 years old and he decided to make a parachute jump. And this is great, but he had lost a leg at Stalingrad battle. And a jump from the mark 3600 includes a full minute of free flight and another 4 minutes under the canopy.

Beautiful But Dangerous

This beautiful lake is very dangerous for people, there is a lot of garbage and all kinds of chemical elements. There are lots of warning signs, but obviously they do not help. 

Gunther Holtorf's 23-year road trip

This Mercedes Benz G-Wagen, affectionately named Otto, has carried Gunther Holtorf and his wife Christine on an incredible 500,000 mile journey around the world.In 1989, Gunther Holtorf and his wife Christine climbed aboard their 1988 Mercedes Benz G-Wagen to travel from Germany to Africa, where they planned to complete a once-in-a-lifetime road trip that would last 18-months.Except the trip didn’t last 18-months, it has lasted 23 years, spanned more than 200 countries and the G-Wagen now has 800,000 kilometers, or 500,000 miles, on its odometer. That’s the equivalent of 20 times around the equator.

Cage Of Death In Australia

 

Cage Of Death In Australia

 

 

Would you like to try this one? Swimming with crocodiles.

That's What Happens When You Get Really High

That's What Happens When You Get Really High

A GIRL who spent four hours smoking super-strength skunk cannabis had to be rescued when she climbed a 40ft electricity pylon after hallucinating that it was a bridge.Horrified locals spotted the 21-year-old girl - from Zlin, Czech Republic - apparently trying to cross a river and dialed emergency services.Police spokesman Jan Macalikova said: “It was a nightmare because she was very much under the influence of drugs and wasn’t making much sense. “She was convinced, though, that the pylon was a bridge across the Morava river.”Drugs counsellors and police eventually persuaded her to come down after two hours on the pylon.“She received treatment at hospital for her drugs consumption but was otherwise unhurt. She’s lucky she didn’t get a new high - high voltage,” added the police spokesman.

Hunters for Honey

Hunters for Honey

Hunters For Honey Learn-to-user dementievskiy wrote in his blog: Today we are going in Nepal, Annapurna mountain range area in the main Himalayan range,where Every spring the locals skillfully extract the honey of wild Himalayan bees.

Twice a year high in the Himalayan foothills of central Nepal teams of men gather around cliffs that are home to the world's largest honeybee, Apis laboriosa.As they have for generations, the men come to harvest the Himalayan cliff bee's honey.

For hundreds of years, the skills required to perform this treacherous task have been passed down through the generations.But now both the bees and traditional honey hunters are in short supply, according to scientists.

A miracle indeed

 A miracle indeed

It happened on a mountain road near the great city of Chongqing. Two huge rocks came down the mountain and crushed five cars. One of the rocks, estimated to weigh 200 ton, hit a truck loaded with 400 yellow boxes of beer, the truck and the beer were sadly destroyed. There was some good news too. Nobody died and only three people were injured. A miracle indeed. A smaller rock, weighing about 100 ton, hit the road first and blocked it. People managed to get out of their cars and run for cover before the big one fell. They must be shaking a bit, longing for a beer, which in this case they CANNOT get.

A Man Miraculously Survived After Jumping In Niagara Falls

A Man Miraculously Survived After Jumping In Niagara Falls

A man in his 40s plunged at least 180 feet over Niagara Falls in an apparent suicide attempt, but survived and was lifted to safety during a harrowing rescue. The unidentified man was only the third person known to have gone over the falls without a safety device and lived.

Niagara Parks Police say witnesses reported seeing the man climb over a railing at 10:20am on Monday and "deliberately jump" above Horseshoe Falls and into the Niagara River.

The man was conscious and talking at first but got quiet. He appeared to have chest injuries, including broken ribs and a collapsed lung, Breathtaking images showed the victim and his rescuer dangling high above the falls by an aerial fire truck.A waiting helicopter flew him to a hospital, where a spokeswoman said he has critical but non-life-threatening injuries, which was echoed by rescue personnel.Niagara Parks Police say it appears the jump was a suicide attempt. It was the first time since March 11, 2009 that someone survived a jump into the falls.