Standing with my toes over a platform, I stared down at the ground (and net) far below. I clenched the bar of a trapeze in a death grip with both hands, taking small comfort in the pull of the harness ...

I’VE GOT A thing about heights. Put me 24 feet in the air, and my palms get sweaty, my knees buckle and I deeply regret climbing up the ladder that got me there. The flying-trapeze instructors at ...

I was standing on a platform 23-feet above the ground, leaning over the edge. “Um, what am I doing up here?” I silently questioned as, clad in a harness belt with safety lines securely fastened, I ...

Every Saturday in a gymnasium at a Leytonstone youth centre, a trapeze harness is lowered, ropes and colourful silks descend, and an unlikely troupe of amateur circus performers emerge to practise ...

Imagine dangling from a hot air balloon with nothing but a harness to keep you from plunging 3,100 metres to the ground. For New Zealand daredevil Anna Cochrane this dream became a reality as she ...