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Added on the 11/04/2016 15:50:32 - Copyright : Viral Video Online
Thrillseekers from Pskov wakeboarded down the city's streets on Wednesday, which flooded after heavy rain caused water levels to rise over the roads, turning the streets into canals. The area received almost a months worth of rainfall in one day, but this daredevil decided that it wasn't going to rain on his parade and wakeboarded through the floods while being pulled by a car.
Dog lover Sofia Kalinina seems to have created her own extreme dog sledding sport in her home city of Rudny, Kazakhstan. The 79-year-old dog fanatic sits down on a flimsy cart with four wheels as her two dogs pull her around on the sidewalk. Kalinina, aka 'the dogs' mother', has rejected more traditional forms of transport and relies on her trusty canines to scoot her around the city on sunny days. Kalinina was formerly a dog handler and so is well experienced in how to handle her two Giant Schnauzers, Rachel and Bony. According to Kalinina, giant schnauzers are sometimes used for police service, so she feels safe with them because they can protect her if she runs into any trouble. Perhaps Sofia may even want to become the first octogenarian dog sled street racer.
The howling of dogs, the bite of frosty winter, and the butterflies floating in your stomach moments before the race begins. Welcome to BaikalRace2017, the annual 96-mile-long endurance dog sled race which takes place on the frozen surface of the deepest freshwater lake in the world. Teams of racers and their dogs kicked off the first leg of the race on Saturday and rode long and hard throughout the weekend to vie for the crown. The annual Baikal dog-sledding endurance competition has drawn scores of adventurous tourists to frosty but beautiful Siberia. This year's sled race is set to run over several days, with the dogs sledding through Lake Baikal, the Baikal National Park and the Baikal Nature Biosphere Reserve. The annual BaikalRace is not the longest official dog sledding race in Russia, not by a longshot. That title goes to the Beringia race, an annual long distance dog sledding endurance race around the Kamchatka Peninsula running for about 590 miles in total, or about 6 times as long as Baikal Race. Longer still is the world famous Iditarod Race in Alaska, which runs for about 1,000 miles on a trail from Anchorage to Nome, making it the longest dog sled race in the world.
Lack of snow shortens ceremonial start of Alaska's Iditarod Trail sled dog race. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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