In love with fear

[00:00.36] Tired of your quiet routine?

[00:02.62] How about leaving your computer games behind and taking up an extreme sport?

[00:07.88] You can ride a bicycle, right? In that case you're halfway to becoming a mountain biker.

[00:14.14] All you have to do is take your bike off the road and try some rough terrain.

[00:20.16] Mountain biking was developed in California in the 1970s and became an Olympic sport in 1996.

[00:27.43] In the London 2012 games, athletes had to navigate a 4.7-kilometer track in less than two hours.

[00:34.95] Not challenging enough? Skydivers jump from aircraft at an altitude of 1,000 to 4,000 meters.

[00:42.96] You have to be fit but there's no age limit with this sport.

[00:46.48] Dilys Price from Cardiff went on her first jump aged 54.

[00:50.98] The minute she came down she wanted to go up again.

[00:54.00] "I was hooked", said Dilys.

[00:57.00] Some adrenaline junkies are even bolder – they've invented base jumping, in which people leap from tall structures, such as buildings or bridges, with a parachute.

[01:08.03] Many of their stunts aren't legal, especially in urban areas.

[01:11.78] Dan Witchalls has jumped off The Shard - London's 310 meter-high skyscraper - four times.

[01:18.55] He says: "Base jumping is scarier than jumping out of a plane.

[01:22.56] In a plane, there's no perception of height, but when you are standing on the edge of the building you can see people and cars - it makes it very real."

[01:31.33] It seems there's no lack of imagination when it comes to risking life to look cool and get the heart pounding.

[01:37.60] Surfing, scuba diving, rock climbing… How about turning one of your chores into a daredevil pursuit?

[01:44.61] 'Extreme ironing' isn't for wimps! Pressing your shirt on top of a mountain could be dangerous, depending on the mountain.

[01:53.13] Extreme ironing is said to have been created in the 1990s in the English town of Leicester by a man who saw a pile of wrinkled clothes and felt bored. That was Phil Shaw who also won the only Extreme Ironing Championships ever held, in Germany in 2002.

[02:11.42] For him, the thrill of this sport comes from looking at the spectators' faces.

[02:17.19] Shaw says: "Sometimes they look confused, sometimes they laugh. It's fun to see how people respond to it."