Imagine being rock climber Alex Honnold as he sits on a ledge on the Northwest Face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. He literally has the space to himself with  nobody else there to interrupt him as he espies the world. Perhaps his pulse will be racing so fast from the adrenalin rush that he will be on his own induced high. No need for my a stiff drink. In fact the opposite is  true. On needs a clear head to focus on the ever-present danger that lurks for entrap the unwary adventure seeker

Mountain bikers ride along the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland, known as one of the most terrifying bike paths in the world.

Brian Mosbaugh walks the Pedra de Gavea highline, high over the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A man daringly stands atop Kjeragbolten, a boulder wedged in a mountain crevice that’s suspended above a 3,228-foot deep abyss.

A group of climbers camp out in tents hanging off a 4,000-foot cliff face in the Arctic.

Sam Elias climbs up the Fang, a 100-foot high ice pillar in Vail, Colorado.

 A pair of climbers hang from the face of the Dolomites in Italy.

An adventurous group walk along the infamous plank path of the Mt. Huashan Hiking Trail.

Kayaker Jesse Coombs plunges over the 65-foot tall Lower Mesa Falls near Ashton, Idaho.

A dare-devil stands on top of the star adorned 177-foot Borovitskaya tower in Moscow, Russia.

Todor Spasov dives off the cliffs in the Azores, during the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series

A couple shows no fear as the lay on a railroad track inches away from plummeting into the forest below.

A women poses on Trolltunga, a piece of rock hanging out 2,300 feet above Lake Ringedalsvatnet in Norway.

Freeskier Dane Tudor drops into a line in Haines, Alaska.

Emily Sukiennik slacklines across the amazing geography of Moab in Utah.

Two people scale up an enormous Redwood tree in California.

A man hangs in the 586-foot Fantastic Cave Pit of Ellison’s Cave, the deepest unobstructed underground pitch in the continental US.