Who is the man behind the insane bat cave wingsuit stunt?

Art Mortvedt flew the same plane, the Polar Pumpkin, to the South Pole and the North Pole.

Updates to the World Record figures.

The search-and-rescue team was able to recover some equipment from the exposed tail of the de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter, including the cockpit voice recorder.

No names have been officially released but according to news media the pilot was Bob Heath from Inuvik, NWT, Canada.

It's in the air but no one knows exactly what it is.

"Lord take care of me now.
I jump from space."

This entry in ExWeb's series about the future of adventure film and television is an interesting view from South America.

Already some days before, a team had sent word from Manaslu that a helicopter had saved seven stranded climbers. On Annapurna, the Fishtail Air/Air Zermatt heroes went even further. But on November 7 one of the pilot rescuers lost his own life, on Ama Dablam, while trying to save yet another mountaineer.

Man can fly. Italian Angelo d'Arrigo proved it. Eventually, he even showed birds how to do it. Through his life and his deeds, Angelo followed his dreams all the way up to 9000 meters. Angelo was a different bird. He dreamt and acted on his dreams. We never heard him claiming to be the

(MountEverest.net) Italian pilot Angelo DâArrigo died today in an accident during an air show in Comiso, Italy, according to Italian media. DâArrigo, who flew in his hang-glider over Everest in 2004, and over Aconcagua on December 31, 2005, was passenger in a small Sky Arrow plane piloted by G

Steve Fossett broke the world record for the longest flight yesterday Saturday, 11 February 2006, after a dramatic landing. Steve reported a mayday over Hampshire because he had lost electrical power. He was urgently diverted to Bournemouth, where he added to the drama by bursting two tyres on landing; but he

The "Aconcagua Condor", as he is known among his fellow Argentinians last captivated media and fans everywhere when he soared over the highest peak of the American continent on Dec 31st 2005. For ExplorersWeb, Angelo d'Arrigo is still known as âBirdmanâ â the guy who fl

You climb to the summit and then you jump. Simple as that. At least if you are Stéphane Luchini, Benoît Paquet, Bruno Tauziet, or Luc Taillez who found a way to avoid the long lines at rappelling points. Last summer, each climber simply jumped from just below the Matterhornâs