Extreme sports

About 60 kilometers south of Paris is one of the largest bouldering facilities in the world. It is not without reason that Fontainebleau is considered the cradle of bouldering: on around 25,000 hectares of forest, you will find around twenty thousand individual bouldering routes for climbing, even in winter.

Tough Mudder, Spartan Race & co: Anyone can run, crawl through mud, and scale obstacles. We have collated the key facts for each of these popular events.

Under the provocative campaign title "Not bad for a Girl" the German extreme sportswoman Anja Blacha succeeds in doing what many people obviously did not think she could do: After 57 days, 18 hours, 50 minutes and 1,400 kilometers on skis she reached the South Pole on 9 January.

Much more than just a cuddly toy: this polar bear has already been to the North Pole, in the Antarctic and has crossed Greenland.

Highlining is a variant of slacklining - Friedi Kühne wants to master it to perfection. And he has to, because when he's on free solo, no safety rope helps. Crazy? "No, on the contrary," he says.