Daredevils: The Human Spider Returns

  • Channel 4
  • 1 x 60mins
  • TX: 12/10/2009

Preferring glass and steel to rock and stone, and without ropes or safety equipment one man has taken the art of climbing to dangerous new heights… Having already conquered 80 of highest building’s on earth, Alain Robert now has his sights on the only one to …

Daredevils: The Sky Walker

  • Channel 4
  • 1 x 60mins
  • TX: 05/10/2009

Dean Potter is a unique breed of daredevil. He is the only person in the world practicing extreme slacklining – a hair-raising variation of tightrope walking which sees him crossing a bouncy stretch of 1-inch wide rope suspended hundreds of feet above some of the …

Daredevils: The Ice Man

  • Channel 4
  • 1 x 60mins
  • TX: 21/09/2009

Dutch daredevil Wim Hof is planning to run a full 26-mile marathon 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, clad only in shorts and open sandals. Wim won’t be doing any physical training. He sees this as a challenge of the power of the human mind. Wim …

Daredevils: The Human Bird

  • Channel 4
  • 1 x 60mins
  • TX: 14/09/2009

The incredible spectacle of proximity wingsuit flying involves wearing a state-of-the-art Teflon winged suit, jumping off a cliff edge thousands of feet up and flying terrifyingly close to some of the world’s most dangerous mountain faces before deploying a parachute at the very last second. Its …