Sure, Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin can claim world champion status, but did either win their sport’s first title? On July 17, Vail’s Davis Hermes won the freestyle competition at the inaugural ...

A man from France just broke the world record for the longest highline walked, according to the International Slackline Association (ISA). Nathan Paulin managed to walk a staggering 2,200 meters ...

Eagle County’s Davis Hermes took his slacklining to a whole new level — 2,300 meters to be exact — in Brazil. And he reached that elevation between two unusual anchor points: hot air balloons. Hermes, ...

The current trickline world champions are in Vail for the GoPro Mountain Games slackline competitions. “We have some of the best trickline athletes in the world competing here,” said Mickey Wilson, ...

The Bureau of Land Management helped host a slackline world cup event in Moab, where individuals balanced on suspended lines ...

Last year, high in a canyon near Colorado Springs, Brett Price finally showed his mom what he’d been up to. A 1-inch-thick line was strung between cliff sides. Price walked across it, nothing but air ...

James Clulow walks along a slackline strung between two boulders in Wanaka, New Zealand at night. Slacklining is a craze where thrill-seekers walk along one-inch nylon webbing... Credit: Fabrice ...