(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...