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Merary Waleska Aguilar
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Top Five Most Dangerous Sports

Nowadays the popularity of extreme sports has increased and many people have dared to practice them. Those sportsare called extreme because they have the characteristic of being dangerous. They are practiced at an unusual scenario. There are many different extreme sports with different levels of risk. I am goingto present you, without any particular order, a list of the five most dangerous sports according to the risky elements that involves their practicing.

Whereas some of us might be afraid of having aride in a roller coaster, some people are ready to jump from a huge building only with a parachute. This is what base jumping is about. People can jump from buildings, bridges, cliffs and antennas.The first base jumps were done by Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield. They jumped together form a building in Houston on January 18th 1981. Some of the places where people jump from are the West VirginiaBridge, the Utah’s Tombstone cliff, the Perrine Bridge in Idaho and the Petronas twin towers in Malaysia.

When talking about ski is already a dangerous sport for the low temperatures and the unstableland, what can we get if we add to this inconceivable highs and no supervision of ski patrols. The heli-skiing is practiced in this way. The skiers are carried by a helicopter and dropped intoextremely high snowy mountains. Then they start their ski down dangerous trip. Hans Gmoser is generally considered as the first one in practicing heli-skiing in 1965. Based on photos in ski books, heli-skiingmight have started earlier, probably in the late 50’s or early 60’s. Some common places to practice heli-skiing are Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
"There is more tobull riding than just pain. It can be an art if you take it to the next ride." (Leffew, G.) Bull riding is about getting on a large bull and try to stay mounted for at least eight seconds. The bull...
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