This article describes extreme locations on Earth. Entries listed in bold are Earth-wide extremes.

Extreme elevations and temperatures per continent[link]

Continent	Elevation (height above/below sea level)			Temperature (recorded)[1]A
	Highest		Lowest	Highest	Lowest
Africa	5,893 m (19,334 ft) Kilimanjaro, Tanzania		−155 m (−509 ft) Lake Assal, Djibouti	57.8 °C (136.0 °F) 'Aziziya, Libya 13 September 1922. (Disputed)	−23.9 °C (−11.0 °F) Ifrane, Morocco 11 February 1935
Antarctica	4,892 m (16,050 ft) Vinson Massif		−50 m (−164 ft)[2] Deep Lake, Vestfold Hills (compare the deepest ice section below)	15 °C (59 °F) Vanda Station 5 January 1974	−89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) Vostok Station 21 July 1983
Asia	8,848 m (29,029 ft) Mount Everest, Nepal		−424 m (−1,391 ft) Dead Sea shore, Israel - Jordan	55 °C (131 °F) Mitraba, Kuwait 15 June 2010C	−67.8 °C (−90.0 °F) Measured Verkhoyansk, Siberia, Russia (then in the Russian Empire) 5 February 1892
					−71.2 °C (−96.2 °F) Extrapolated Oymyakon, Siberia, Russia (then in the Soviet Union) 26 January 1926[3]
Europe	5,642 m (18,510 ft) Mount Elbrus, Russia (compare Mont Blanc)		−28 m (−92 ft) Caspian Sea shore, Russia (compare the Tagebau Hambach)	48.0 °C (118.4 °F) Athens, Greece (and Elefsina, Greece) 10 July 1977 D	−58.1 °C (−72.6 °F) Ust-Shchuger, Russia 31 December 1978
North America	6,198 m (20,335 ft) Denali (Mount McKinley), Alaska, U.S.A.		−86 m (−282 ft) Death Valley, California, U.S.A. (compare the deepest ice section below)	56.7 °C (134.1 °F) Death Valley, California, U.S.A. 10 July 1913	−63 °C (−81.4 °F) Snag, Yukon, Canada 3 February 1947
					−66.1 °C (−87.0 °F) North Ice, Greenland 9 January 1954[citation needed]
Oceania (Australia)	4,884 m (16,024 ft) Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid), Indonesia (compare Mount Wilhelm and Mount Kosciuszko)		−15 m (−49 ft) Lake Eyre, South Australia, Australia	50.7 °C (123.3 °F) Oodnadatta, South Australia, Australia 2 January 1960E	−25.6 °C (−14.1 °F) Ranfurly, New Zealand 18 July 1903
South America	6,962 m (22,841 ft) Aconcagua, Mendoza, Argentina		−105 m (−344 ft) Laguna del Carbón, Argentina	48.9 °C (120.0 °F) Rivadavia, Salta Province, Argentina 11 December 1905	−32.8 °C (−27.0 °F) Sarmiento, Argentina 1 June 1907
A.^ All temperatures from the World Meteorological Organization unless noted. B.^ Height above sea level is the usual choice of definition for elevation. In terms of the point farthest away from the centre of the Earth, Chimborazo in Ecuador (6,267 m (20,561 ft)) can be considered the planet's most extreme high point. This is due to the Earth's oblate spheroid shape, with points near the Equator being farther out from the centre than those at the poles. C.^ This is the highest recorded air temperature. Higher surface temperatures have been recorded, for example, 70.7 °C (159.3 °F) in 2004 and 2005 in the Lut desert, Iran.[4][5][6][7] D.^ Temperatures greater than 50 °C (122 °F) in Spain and Portugal were recorded in 1881, but the standard with which they were measured and the accuracy of the thermometers used are unknown; therefore, they are not considered official. Unconfirmed reports also indicate that a set of Spanish stations may have hit 48.0 °C (118.4 °F) during the 2003 heat wave.[8] E.^ A temperature of 53.1 °C (127.6 °F) was recorded in Cloncurry, Queensland on 16 January 1889 under non-standard exposure conditions and is therefore not considered official.[9]

F ^ The above information needs to be updated to reflect satellite data released in April 2012 indicating that, in 2005, the land surface temperature in the Lut Desert in Iran reached 70.7 °C (159.3 °F). Numerous other recorded temperatures over 66.8 °C (152.2 °F) were recorded in other places as well ^[10]

Greatest vertical drop[link]

Greatest purely vertical drop	1,250 m (4,101 ft) Mount Thor, Auyuittuq National Park, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada (summit elevation 1,675 m (5,495 ft))[11][12]
Greatest nearly vertical drop	100px 1,340 m (4,396 ft) Trango Towers, Pakistan (summit elevation 6,286 m (20,623 ft))

Subterranean[link]

Greatest oceanic depths[link]

Deepest ice[link]

Ice sheets on land, but having the base below sea level. Places under ice are not considered to be on land.

Coldest and hottest inhabited places on Earth[link]

Northern and southernmost points of land on Earth[link]

See also[link]

Earth sciences portal

References[link]

External links[link]

• United States National Climatic Data Center
• AWOW Top List World Top 10 Hottest Places

Dana Kunze is a champion high-diver. He has held the world records for the highest dives. Dana Kunze began his professional high diving career in 1974 at the age of 13.^[1] He won his first world championship 1977 and maintained a winning streak for seven years.^[1] Dana now maintains a company that produces High Dive Shows.^[1] He was tied with the world record for highest dive at 52.4 m (172 ft)^[1] until 1985, when Randy Dickison (fracturing his leg in the process) set a record of 174 feet 8 inches at an event in Hong Kong. ^[2][3] In 1987, the current record of 53.9 m (177 ft) was set by Olivier Favre.^[4][5]

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Youtube video of him tying world record

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Felix Baumgartner (born 20 April 1969 in Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian skydiver and a BASE jumper. He is renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career. Baumgartner spent time in the Austrian military where he practiced parachute jumping, including training to land on small target zones.

Biography[link]

He was born on 20 April 1969 in Salzburg, Austria.^[1]

In 1999 he claimed the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[2]

On 31 July 2003, Baumgartner became the first person to skydive across the English Channel using a specially made fibre wing.^[3]

Baumgartner set the world record for the lowest BASE jump ever, from the hand of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.^[4]

He became the first person to BASE jump from the completed Millau Viaduct in France on 27 June 2004^{[citation needed]} and the first person to sky dive onto, then BASE jump from, the Turning Torso building in Malmö, Sweden on 18 August 2006.^[5]

On 12 December 2007 he became the first person to jump from the 91st floor observation deck, then went to the 90th floor (about 390 m (1,280 ft)) of the then tallest completed building in the world, Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan.^[6]

[edit] Red Bull Stratos

In January 2010, it was reported that Baumgartner was working with a team of scientists and sponsor Red Bull to attempt the highest sky-dive on record.^[7] Baumgartner was going to make the 120,000 ft (36,600 m) jump from a capsule suspended from a balloon filled with helium, intending to become the first parachutist to break the sound barrier; the feat was scheduled to take place sometime in 2011.^[8][9][10] Joseph Kittinger, who holds the records Baumgartner is attempting to break, was advising Baumgartner during the "Stratos" mission in the hopes of getting scientific data on next-generation full pressure suits.^[7][11] However, on October 12, 2010, Red Bull announced it was placing the project on hold after Daniel Hogan filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court in Los Angeles, California in April, claiming he had originated the idea of the parachute dive from the edge of space in 2004 and that Red Bull had stolen the idea from him.^[12][13] The lawsuit was resolved out of court in June 2011^[14] and on 5 February 2012, The Daily Telegraph reported that the project would be resumed.^[15]

On 15 March 2012 he completed the first of two test jumps from 71,581 feet (21,818 m). During the jump he spent approximately three minutes and 43 seconds in free fall, reaching speeds of more than 360 miles per hour (580 km/h), before opening his parachute. In total, the jump lasted approximately eight minutes and eight seconds and Baumgartner became only the third person to safely parachute from a height of over 13.5 miles (21.7 km).^[16]

See also[link]

• Michel Fournier, who has been working on a 25 mile jump for several years.^[17]
• Joseph Kittinger, world record holder for skydiving from 102,800 ft
• Yves Rossy, the first man to cross the English Channel using a jet-powered wing

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Red Bull Stratos Project
• Felix Jumping from the Christ Redemeer - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

External media
	Felix Baumgartner

Tyler Bradt (born June 2, 1986) is an American whitewater kayaker known for kayaking Palouse Falls.^[2]

Biography[link]

Born and raised in Stevensville, Montana,^[3] Tyler Bradt was first introduced to kayaking at only six years of age by his father, Bill Bradt. Tyler's skills seemed to be above average as he kayaked class five rapids only six years later at the age of twelve. By age fifteen, he was a kayaking prodigy, receiving national recognition for his abilities. In July of 2001, Tyler was invited to kayak rapids in Norway.^[4] While on this trip, Tyler had a near death experience when he was flipped and pinned up against a rock under the force of the water. To this day he still calls it "the closest call he's ever had".^[4][5] Tyler has appeared in several films, holds sponsors from NRS, KAVU, Smith, Dagger, At Paddle, Tribe, and Voke Tab.^[3] He has gone on kayaking expeditions and holds the record for the highest waterfall kayaked at 186 ft.

World Record at Palouse Falls[link]

On April 21, 2009, Bradt successfully kayaked Palouse Falls in Washington state. At an estimated 186 feet (57 m), this made Bradt's descent a world record, breaking the previous record set by a Brazilian kayaker named Pedro Oliva who ran the 127-foot (39 m) Salto Belo of the Rio Sacre just a month before. In turn, Oliva's descent of Salto Belo broke Bradt's previous record of 107 feet (33 m) from 2007 over Alexandra Falls on the Hay River in the Northwest Territories.^[6] Bradt's plunge attracted media attention since the Palouse Falls are 17 feet (5.2 m) taller than Niagara Falls. His media agent sold both pictures and video of Bradt's descent to Sports Illustrated. On May 18, 2009, the first published photos appeared in the magazine along with video footage on SI's website.^[6] Bradt and kayaker/film maker/friend Rush Sturges used footage of the plunge in their 2010 collaborative film, Dream Result.^[6]

Injury at Abiqua[link]

In March 2011, Tyler was on his Huck Fest Tour, which is an annual tour that he and his friends go on looking for big waterfalls. On this trip, they found Abiqua Falls, a 95 ft. waterfall located in Oregon in which Tyler made a mistake and went into the water too flat, causing him to break the L1 vertebra in his back. It took Tyler's friends, including Aaron Rettig who was with him that day, four hours to carry him out of the canyon to a nearby hospital. Once there, Tyler underwent a four-hour surgery by Dr. Joseph Sherrill, getting four screws and a bone graft to replace crushed bone. Tyler wasn't cleared to kayak by doctors for three months following the injury.^[4]

Expeditions[link]

After Bradt healed from a back injury he planned an expeditionto the Sea of Cortez in Baja California, Mexico, accompanied by Sarah McNair-Landry and his friend Erik Boomer. Sponsors for the trip were KAVO, TRIAK, NRS, Adventure Technology, La Paz, and VOKE.^[7] The plan was for the trip to be a 450-mile journey over a span of 30 to 45 days. The group set off as scheduled from Kino Nuevo on January 21, 2012, but a couple of days into the trip, nasty weather held them up on shore for seven days. They were forced to cut the trip short because Sarah had to catch a plane and fly north for an arctic expedition training camp she had to teach. The group decided their new destination would be Loreto, Mexico, 258 miles from their starting point. On February 14, 2012, 24 days after they started and two days before Sarah's flight took off, they made it.^[7]

Movie appearances[link]

• Dream Result^[8]
• Congo – the Grand Inga Project^[9]
• Legend of The Falls^[4]
• Oil + Water Project^[10]
• Kayaking Uganda 2004: The White Nile^[11]
• Tyler Bradt in Norway^[5]
• Frontier^[12]

Awards[link]

• Outside Adventurer of the Year 2012^[13]
• Rider of the Year 2009^[14]
• Drop of the Year 2009^[15]
• 5th Best line of the Year 2009^[16]

References[link]