Highlining requires walking the line hundreds or even thousands of feet above the ground. Slacklining — the act of walking a tensioned piece of webbing strung tight as a guitar string between two ...

(CBS News) Walking on a tightrope with just a pole for balance is hard enough -- yet some folks want even more of a challenge. So they put some slack in the rope and balance with just their hands.

The sport is slacklining, and it’s an activity that includes balancing, walking and performing tricks and poses as you cross a nylon strap one or two inches wide. Sounds tame until you become ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado – Emily and Nathan Hodge field the questions rather frequently. “Are you tightrope walking? Are you in the circus?” The answer to both is no, but the young New Castle couple ...

Pushing limits is nothing new. That’s precisely how performance levels trend skyward. But what if we told you there was a place, deep in the deserts of Utah, where the lines of progressive sports blur ...

The new sport of highlining may give you a thrill just watching it, but Brian Mosbaugh of Terrebonne says the goal in walking along a one-inch-wide line of nylon webbing hundreds of feet above the ...

Picture a thin band of slightly loose nylon webbing strung between two trees. Then imagine balancing, bouncing, flipping and tightrope walking on it. Welcome to the world of slacklining, an adventure ...

Brian Mosbaugh says that walking a thin rope hundreds of feet above the ground provides no adrenaline rush. In fact, quite the opposite. Mosbaugh, the leader of a growing group of rock climbers at ...