(VANCOUVER, Canada) — Spencer Seabrooke recently had the free solo slacklining experience he’d been looking forward to since he started the sport more than three years ago. On Aug. 2, at Squamish’s ...

A world champion slackliner has become the first person to cross the Strait of Messina by foot, covering a distance of more than 3 km along a strip of material less than an inch wide. Jaan Roose, 32, ...

A recreational tightrope strung across a remote Arizona canyon likely triggered a helicopter crash that killed four ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Kiavash Sharifi can hardly describe the feeling of tip-toeing across an abyss on a thin ribbon of webbing that bends ever so slightly downward. The 22-year-old is one of a growing ...

VAIL — Competitive slacklining made its debut as an objectively judged competition at this year’s GoPro Mountain Games, to rave reviews from competitors. While people have been using slacklines for ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Slacklining has achieved the recognition that assures its arrival as an outdoor sport: it has been banned by officials at some of the colleges and parks where the test of balance is ...

To understand slacklining, think of tightrope walking, with two huge distinctions: Slackliners walk on flexible, sagging nylon or polyester webbing rather than on taut rope; and slacklining isn't much ...

Former Arapahoe Basin Ski Area employee and professional slackliner Mickey Wilson never thought that his sport would help him save a life. However, when a powder-filled day on the ski slopes suddenly ...