Aerialist Nik Wallenda, who previously walked across New York's Niagara Falls, takes his high-wire act to Florida, attempting a tightrope walk above downtown Sarasota. (NBC News)
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Every year, the best bike riders in the world travel to Virgin, Utah, for the extreme mountain bike race, the Red Bull Rampage. Cyclist Darren Berrecloth gives TODAY's Jenna Wolfe a tour of the breakneck downhill course that's all about pushing limits. (TODAY)
As Fearless Felix jumped from 24 miles above the earth on Sunday, the mission-battered Endeavor crawled the streets of Los Angeles. NBC's Matt Taibbi reflects on the significance of both. (Nightly News)
Austrian pilot Felix Baumgartner is attempting to break the record for the highest skydive, and become the first human to break the sound barrier without a plane or spacecraft. TODAY's Tom Yamas reports. (TODAY)
A 43-year-old daredevil known as 'Fearless Felix' is set to skydive from 23 miles above Earth and plummet for more than five minutes with supersonic speeds reaching up to 700 miles per hour. TODAY's Natalie Morales reports. (TODAY)
It's about as dangerous a thing as you can do, but tightrope walker Nik Wallenda successfully fulfilled a life-long dream on Friday night: to be the first to walk a high-wire across Niagara Falls. (TODAY)
A Russian base-jumper leaps off a 21,000-foot-high Himalayan mountain and reaches speeds of 124 miles-per-hour. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports. (TODAY)
Amazing video shows French stuntman Jean-Yves Blondeau gliding down an Alpine road on rollerblade skates like a real-life Transformer. (TODAY)
A seventh-generation daredevil sets two new world records over the Atlantic City, N.J., skyline. WCAU-TV's Ted Greenberg reports. (NBC News)
A man was arrested after he climbed the outside of a San Francisco building using only suction cups. TODAYshow.com's Dara Brown reports.