Awesome Extreme

Pro drifter Dominic Tiroch and former Red Bull World Air Race champ Hannes Arch engage in a death-defying gymkhana match. Even better, they’re actually playing two games at once. Arch is one heck of a daredevil.

A city bus was being driven along its route on Goucher Street in Johnstown, Pennsylvania when an unexpected passenger climbed in. From up front. A spokesman for the bus company claims no one was injured.

BBC Earth Unplugged takes a look at the animal that we’re most familiar with – humans. They’ve enlisted the help of a group of shaolin warriors to demonstrate some of our advantageous physical characteristics.

Wingsuit flyer Alexander Polli keeps on living 2013 the way he started it: daring death to come get him. This time he flies at about 155mph through an extremely narrow hole in a mountainside.

Jokke Summer and Ludovic Woerth pulled off an absolutely insane – and illegal – stunt. They jumped from two ultralight planes and zoomed through a narrow gap in a building in Rio de Janeiro.

This unfortunate mountain climber let go of his axes when he was caught off guard by a falling chunk of ice. Without a harness, he was in for what is probably the scariest 45 seconds of his life.

This couple was with Devin Graham when he filmed the insane rope swing video. Do you think it’s awesome to have a loved one that pushes you to try new things? This guy thinks so. In literal terms.

Sports, stunts and first-person perspective videos dominate the latest video of Luc Bergeron aka Zapatou’s popular compilation series. You’ll find links to all 243 videos on his Google+ page.

While Jeb Corliss continues to heal from a disastrous crash last year, he posted this daring jump from back in 2004, in which he does a double-twisting quad front off Shanghai’s Jin Mao Tower.

Made by Sherpas Cinema, Into the Mind is about the “varying disciplines of skiing, snowboarding and other mountain pursuits that display the connectivity of Earth, mind, body and soul.” Coming 09/13.

At around 0:50 of Sverre Liliequist’s Big Mountain run at the Swatch Skiers Cup, a sizable patch of snow breaks off and threatens to engulf him. But Sverre ain’t Sweet Brown; he got time for that.

Stephanie Dietze and Lutz Eichholz unicycled downhill from the Cima Ombretta Orientale, a 9,900ft. peak of the Dolomites. They make it look easy. Turn subtitles on. Image by Markus Greber.

He’s not the Silver Skier, but Norwegian PK Hunder did launch his phone from his pocket during an X Games Big Air practice run only to have it meet back with its master owner at the bottom of the hill.

Beatboxer AleM speaks French, but all you need to know is that his ability to tap dance with his mouth will have you waiting for his tongue to catch fire. Watch him test his speed using a metronome.

Driving on ice give us nightmares in which we both drown and freeze to death. But that didn’t stop this guy from creating a vehicle that can drive across fractured ice and extract itself from icy waters.

An insane hybrid sport combining snowmobiling with paragliding. In this clip, Parasledder Eric Oddy gets mad air when his chute catches some wind, and his sled takes off in British Colombia.

Forge Films went with three equally insane kayakers to the remote jungles of Tlapacoyan, Veracruz in Mexico to search for waterfalls to ride and crash on. A beautiful and thrilling short.

How Sergey Valyaev and his partners in crime illegally got to the crane on top of Europe’s tallest building, Moscow’s Mercury City. This is some next-level Man on Wire stuff. Turn captions on.

A group of scientists have successfully captured the first video of a giant squid in its natural habitat, 2,000ft beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Discovery will release a longer video on 01/27/13.

Props to the water chugging viral hit kid, but Redditor Squirt_Locker points us to this clip that’s better for two reasons: the dude drinks 1.5L in less than 5 seconds, and the crowd reacts accordingly.

According to YouTuber Haywiredigital, the boat on fire was carrying two big tanks of gas and the wind was carrying the boat to shore. Good thing a quick thinker on a nearby jet boat came to save the day.

An epic wingsuit flying clip from Team Need 4 Speed, Phoenix-Fly and AdrenalinBase, with incredible formations over beautiful terrain. The smoke trails alone are worth the price of admission.

An excerpt from a BBC Earth video about the Shark Reef Marine Reserve in Fiji, where divers and fishermen make extra income taking tourists on an unusual attraction: feeding wild sharks by hand.

Paraglider Horacio Llorens jumped from a plane over Guatemala and managed to flip himself over an astounding 568 times before landing. We’d love to see the full, unedited version of his dizzying trip.

We don’t think it beats our pick for goal of the year, but this goal from futsal legend Alessandro Rosa Vieira aka Falcão is certainly the weirdest and most stylish free kick we’ve ever seen.

Red Bull Winch Sessions returns to play at one of Wisconsin’s beautiful cranberry bogs, this time to wakeskate. The action begins at 3:15, but we highly recommend watching the whole video.