Category: Sports

With a warning to children, telling them not to try this stunt at home, a Chinese monk breaks two iron rods on his head. The crowd applauds.

Heinrich Harrer, one of the first people to successfully climb the north face of the Eiger in the Alps, once said: “One cannot defeat or conquer mountains, one can only climb them.”

My mom always told me that staying indoors during winter would have me climbing the walls. Little did I know she meant it literally.

A Zamboni slides silently over the ice, its engine drowned out by a metallic voice over the loud speaker calling out five minutes until the next race. In other years Lynne Wolfson would have been strapping on her skates and hitting the freshly smoothed ice.