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DODGING JAWS How to survive a shark attack

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CLARKE The Everest actor on enjoying the journey

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ROAD TO SUCCESS

How actor Jason Clarke made the move from small-town Australia to Hollywood movie stardom

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WELCOME We like risk takers here at The Red Bulletin, and we’ve got plenty in this month’s issue. There’s Aussie actor Jason Clarke, who left his home with a few dollars in his pocket and a sense of adventure that’s taken him to the Hollywood Hills (and the Hungry Valley, LA for our highoctane shoot). And we chat to brand new high-wire expert Joseph Gordon-Levitt about braving new heights to play Philippe Petit in upcoming film The Walk. Plus we have Peter Capaldi, back with his controversially no-nonsense incarnation of Dr Who, some of the fastest boats ever to hit the water – and float above it – going head to head around the world, and spot Owen Wilson letting loose in Paris at one of the biggest hip-hop parties on the planet. We hope you enjoy the issue.

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AT A GLANCE GALLERY 16 GOOD SHOTS! Photos of the month

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Behind the scenes at the Yard Party at the Grand Palais, the biggest hip-hop party in France

23 ADVENTURE SPECIAL We take you to the lightest and darkest places on Earth

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FEATURES 32 Jason Clarke

The Everest star on why the journey is more important than the destination

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Selects her best adventure photos

52 This month’s heroes

DR IN THE HOUSE

Peter Capaldi tells us why taking charge of the Tardis as the 12th incarnation of Dr Who made him very nervous

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58 Daniela Ryf

Putting pain to good use with the European Ironman champion

66 A story in five pictures

The sailing competition honing the skills of the world’s best young sailors

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Rap comes to Paris’s Grand Palais

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79 SEE IT. GET IT. DO IT. The best travel, gadgets, cars, films, TV, games, music and events. Plus how to fight sharks

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The young sailors learning to fly over the water at breathtaking speed in the Red Bull Foiling Generation regattas

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Ferrari moves with the times and launches the turbocharged 488 GTB, with more power and lower emissions

Dr Who actor Peter Capaldi, American movie star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emmy Rossum from the US version of Shameless, and turntablist Qbert

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From left: Clarke, Acer, US editor Andreas Tzortzis and Muller

Hollywood takes on the desert The shoot concept was set once we found out that Jason Clarke was a car fanatic. But who would lend photographer Michael Muller some wheels? Enter Robert Acer: Trophy truck racer, philanthropist, mystery millionaire and possible future Marvel superhero. Acer lent his truck and team for the shoot near Los Angeles and Clarke took to the controls with astonishing ease. “I’m threatened,” said Acer, who kept his identity secret by not removing his helmet all day. “He’s a natural.” Read the story on page 32.

IN FOCUS BEHIND THE LENS

“I don’t twerk, but I love watching girls doing it,” says Keffer, snapper, night owl and VIP at the craziest Paris parties. For us, he shot the biggest rap event in France: the Yard Party. See what went on on page 72.

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PHILIPP MUELLER

The Swiss lensman has photographed sports stars such as Jerome Boateng and Bode Miller. For The Red Bulletin he persuaded professional triathlete Daniela Ryf to slip into high heels and latex. See the results on page 58.

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Shooting at 4,000m up in the mountains is just part of the job for Krystle Wright

“Routine is your biggest enemy” KRYSTLE WRIGHT Award-winning Australian photographer Krystle Wright is a real-life adventurer every time she goes to work. She freedives, climbs rocks and faces subzero temperatures to be close to her protagonists. In 2011, she even survived a paragliding accident in Pakistan’s high mountains while working on a project. She gives us an insight into her best shots on page 40.

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Daniela Ryf For our feature with the Swiss Ironman triathlete, photographer Philipp Mueller shot her as she’s never been seen before – in high heels and latex. Get an exclusive peek behind the scenes at: redbulletin.com/ryf

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Australian action photographer Krystle Wright turns adventure into art. For us, she analyses the Instagram feeds of three photo artists who inspire her.

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The Formula Drift championship pits the world’s best 40 sliding drivers against each other on tracks in China, North America and Japan.

And crowd favourite ‘Mad’ Mike Whiddett feels confident in his 1,032hp Mazda MX-5 – or Radbul, as Whiddett has affectionately dubbed it. The New Zealander got his own nickname during his former career as a fearless motocross rider and nothing’s changed during the switch to four wheels. “I’ve always been about doing things differently,” he says. “I love building cars that push the boundaries.”

More on Mike: madmike.co.nz Photography: Larry Chen

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ROCK ’N’ ROLL American dance music producer Wesley Pentz, better known as Diplo, is among the top earners in the DJ business, with his audio offerings netting him around US$10 million in 2014 alone.

But the 36-year-old high roller isn’t one to rest on his laurels. His all-star dancehall project, Major Lazer, enthrals punters around the world, and for good reason. The undisputed highlight of the energetic live show is Diplo ditching the mixing desk to go zorbing over the audience.

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In the International Year Of Light, we take you to the brightest and darkest places on Earth

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James Cameron reached the highpoint of his career when he went as low as it’s possible to go in the Mariana Trench Blockbuster director James Cameron has a complicated relationship with the sea. In Titanic he sank a ship, in Expedition: Bismarck he got to the bottom of what happened to another one, and in The Abyss he met aliens on the seafloor. An extreme therapy session was the only option left: descending into the Mariana Trench, the deepest, darkest place in the world’s oceans, in a submarine.

He was only the third person in history to take the trip and the first to do it alone. Cameron documented the watery desert 11km below sea level, a place we know less about than we do Mars. But he didn’t get to see all that much in the three hours he was down there; his submarine had whipped up a whole lot of sand. It’s a problem he’s no doubt run into in his movie work – technical requirements getting in the way of the plot.

Dark times: James Cameron is a deep man – luckily he has a waterproof watch

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The sun’s rays can only penetrate 200m into the sea. Here are five diving adventures in the light and dark for anyone who gets their highs in the deep

930m above sea level Weissensee, Austria

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Prep for cold: diving in the highest mountain lake in Carinthia.

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See the light: tiny firefly squid turn the coast neon blue early each year.

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Icebergs from below: the only thing that will give you any warmth in this icy water is the midnight sun.

- 10m Thingvellir, Iceland

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A deep high. This is where the infamous rapture of the deep sets in: expect euphoria, fear, hallucinations.

The (un)sinkable ship.

The Titanic shipwreck has lain off the coast southeast of Newfoundland for more than 100 years.

Rock bottom. It helps to be called James Cameron if you want to explore the depths of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific.

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Cruise control: pilot a submarine – watertight up to a maximum depth of 300m – for four days.

The cost? €8,000.

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Luckily, Keira Knightley stayed home in the drama Everest

DARK STAR

The glimmer of light on the big screen: Keira Knightley

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There’s one thing we’re certain of: this is no mountaineering outfit. At temperatures of -40ºC that fringe would offer little protection and we’re pretty sure shoes are essential. So, despite the snowy-looking setting, we can confirm that this is definitely not a still from new movie Everest, in which Knightley stars. She opts to remain at home in the disaster thriller, while her on-screen husband, Jason Clarke, goes and climbs the world’s highest mountain with Jake Gyllenhaal. By all accounts, a good decision.

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After just 20m it’s possible to see the famous Stone Age bulls on the wall… If you can find your way in, that is. The cave has been closed to the public since the 1963.

30m Waitomo Glowworm Caves New Zealand

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Just 30m into this grotto, you’ll start to see evidence of Arachnocampa luminosa – or glowworms as they’re more commonly known.

120m Lechuguilla Cave New Mexico, USA

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One of the longest cave systems in the world at 222km, it’s stunningly beautiful. Think 6m gypsum chandeliers and cave pearls.

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500m Gouffre Berger France

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A climber’s paradise. After 500m of transverse descent, you come to the eerie stalactite formation known as the Salle des Treize.

1km Eisriesenwelt Austria

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Known as Elsa’s Ice Palace, only the first kilometre of this pure ice cave is accessible. Beyond that, it’s Elsa only.

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Meaning ‘gathering place of the genies’, the Majlis al Jinn in Oman is 120m high, and the second-largest cave chamber in the world

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Dug in 1943 by Polish slave labourers who, to the Nazis’ chagrin, not only refused to die but actually got stronger. All as a result of the mountain’s (slightly controversial) radioactive healing powers.

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6km Son-Doong Cave Vietnam

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Jungle gym: 6km into this vast cave you’re confronted with a wall 60m high, which has only just been conquered by mountaineers.

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1.9km Gasteiner Heilstollen Austria

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YES, BUT SADLY IT’S SO HARD TO SEE

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Could you survive 24 hours in the City of Lights?

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one of the 76 casinos. If it all gets too much, a visit to the Koi Pond at the Wynn offers a rare spot for relaxation.

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Breathe in the dissolute aura of gambling and pulsate along with the neon lights. Away we go into never-ending nightlife.

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Cirque du Soleil show is as par for the course as a go on a one-armed bandit.

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It’s romantic – and conveniently located just around the corner.

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Dine at the Stratosphere Tower for the best view in town. But to see real stars in the sky, head to the Grand Canyon.

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District, the only art you learn is how to sell anything.

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08.05 The past few hours come back to you hazily. The “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign at the city-limit reminds you where you are.

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Hunger drags you to the all-you-can-eat breakfast at Harrah’s. The chocolate fountain shows no sign of slowing down.

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More than 40 million people are attracted to the lights of Las Vegas every year

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DARK TOURISM Five trips you can take – but probably won’t

NORTH KOREA Take a digital detox in Pyongyang, the closed-off country’s capital.

AFGHANISTAN Go for a stroll around Kabul – but don’t forget your helmet and bullet-proof vest.

CHERNOBYL For anyone with a burning desire for unusual sites, get close to the nuclear reactor.

LONDON The Jack The Ripper tour takes you sightseeing in the serial killer’s stomping ground.

SOMALIA OK, so a sailing trip among the pirates isn’t on any tour operator’s list – yet.

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Ever since Captain Kirk first talked of the final frontier in Star Trek in the 1960s, we’ve wanted to travel into space. And ever since Dennis Tito became the first space tourist in 2001, we’ve known that it’s expensive.

Companies such as Virgin Galactic and Space Adventures have already invested billions trying to make the dream reality.

For a mere $250,000, Virgin will let you look at the Earth as you orbit the planet.

In theory, at least. Sadly, last year their SpaceShipTwo fell like a star from the sky.

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So it will be a while before we can open our first solar particle umbrella in orbit or hitchhike through the galaxy. Until then, let’s appreciate the stars in the sky.

Ideally somewhere with minimal light pollution like Uluru in Australia. Or in the Atacama Desert in Chile – you won’t see more stars anywhere else on Earth. And then there’s the next instalment of Star Wars hitting screens in December. It might just be enough to persuade us that the best spaceship is our own sofa.

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In this, the year of light, we’re still light years away from flat-rate holidays in space

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HEAVEN MUST WAIT

Taking the weight off.

When will there be space travel for all?

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JASON CLARKE HAS HAD AN IMPRESSIVE RUN OF NOTABLE FILM PERFORMANCES, CULMINATING IN THIS MONTH’S EVEREST. BUT IF STARDOM IS BECKONING, HE’S IN NO BIG HURRY TO GET THERE. FOR HIM, FOCUSING ON THE GOAL ISN’T REWARDING UNLESS YOU ENJOY THE JOURNEY W O R D S : A N D R E A S T Z O R T Z I S P H O T O G R A P H Y: M I C H A E L M U L L E R

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he guttural pock-pockpock of the idling 860hp engine sounds like the love child of a Harley and an Apache helicopter, and renders anything Jason Clarke could say completely inaudible.

The truck is unlike anything the actor – best known for roles in Terminator Genisys and Zero Dark Thirty – has ever driven. This is an all-carbon, NASCAR-engine-equipped rig straight out of Mad Max, totally different from the Porsches and opencockpit Radicals that petrolhead Clarke races in his downtime. Strapped in securely, he hits the gas and tears up a dusty hill in the Hungry Valley State Vehicular Recreation Area, north of LA. At the crest, Clarke brakes suddenly and spins the rig around, creating a huge cloud as he races back. He gets out, his face as white as a sheet.

“It freaked me out,” says the 46-year-old. “I was like, ‘Whoa whoa whoa, put the brake on! I can’t see f--king anything over there, let alone where the track is.’ ” Did he hit the top speed of 255kph?

Clarke doesn’t know. He has his own measure, however.

“I was going fast enough,” he says, “for my anus to tighten.”

When preparing for a role, Clarke totally immerses himself in the life of his character

Risk and reward are the currency of Clarke’s career, an anomaly in a town that emphasises the safe bet. The approach suits the affable Australian just fine: the destination has been the journey from the very start. The eyecatching role in director Phillip Noyce’s aboriginal drama Rabbit-Proof Fence; the lauded, chilling performance as a CIA operative in Zero Dark Thirty?

They were just stops along the way.

He’s since proved his blockbuster status as simian sympathiser Malcolm in Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes and John Connor in Genisys. But it’s his tender performance as doomed mountain guide Rob Hall in this month’s Everest that could cement Clarke in the minds of mainstream audiences and place him on the brink.

“On the brink of what? Of taking over from Robert Downey Jr?” he laughs. “That would be one of the great gigs, by the way.”

Clarke is seated on a park bench in the fading afternoon light, away from the dust and noise of the day. The Trophy Truck is parked nearby in all its glorious menace. It’s owned by Robert Acer, an enigma in the motorsport community who keeps his real name and identity cloaked behind a character clad all in black who never removes his Daft Punk-like helmet in public. A man

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Clarke got his first big acting role in his 30s, just as he was thinking of giving up.

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Not all airs are intentional.

The torque and power of the Trophy Truck took Clarke by surprise a couple of times

of means from Malibu, so the legend goes, Acer wouldn’t have minded if Clarke had wrecked the car, as long as the actor himself was unharmed.

“I didn’t want to tell Jason this,” says Acer, a muted voice behind a carbon helmet and a mirrored glass visor, “but the faster you go, the smoother it is.”

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‘‘COMING TO AMERICA WAS A BIG THING FOR ME. EVERYTHING WAS AT STAKE. I DIDN’T HAVE A PLAN B’’

larke was born the son of a sheep shearer and a court clerk in the tiny town of Winton, Queensland. The eldest of four, Clarke would lead his siblings on adventures in the vast expanse of the Outback. But the pull of the big city proved too strong.

He headed to Sydney, where he soon became infatuated with the backpackers who would stream through the café where he worked.

When he figured out that acting might be able to provide the same sense of adventure, Clarke went about it pragmatically, enrolling on a course at drama school. Cue several years of struggle and dead ends. Broke, he leant on friends for help and began to question his life choices.

“If it wasn’t going to happen,” says Clarke now, “I would have gone and done something else. I don’t think there’s any point sitting around and being a suffering or frustrated actor.”

Then, as he was about to give up at the age of 33, a break came in the form of Noyce and Rabbit-Proof Fence.

Clarke shone as a constable in the powerful aboriginal drama, and Noyce – a fellow Aussie who had successfully made the leap to the US – had an encouraging word in his ear. “Don’t be scared,” he told Clarke. So Clarke planned his next step, figuring how much it would cost, how much commitment he’d put into it, and readying himself for the possibility that he might return with nothing.

“Coming to America was a big thing for me,” he says. “It was an all-in thing. Everything was at stake. What are you going to do if it doesn’t work out? I didn’t have a Plan B. I grew up with my father and saw how hard that kind of labour is.”

Clarke had US$10,000 in his pocket when he landed in Los Angeles, eager to see how far the money would take him before it ran out. When the acting roles didn’t materialise, he climbed into the 1989 Ford Thunderbird he had bought himself and drove out to the desert, filling his time by rock 37

‘‘THERE’S THAT PERIOD WHEN YOU KEEP PUTTING YOUR FOOT IN THE DOOR AND IT JUST KEEPS GETTING CRUSHED’’ climbing, or else going backpacking in Northern California.

“I felt like I was doing something,” he says. “If it didn’t work, well, at least I’d get to see America. Desire needs opportunity to have a go. And there’s that period when you keep putting your foot in the door and it just keeps getting crushed. Then, finally, you get your foot in the door and you poke your head in, you do your thing and someone says, ‘C’mon in.’”

That break was Brotherhood, a US TV series in which creator Blake Masters cast the unknown 37-year-old as one of the two leads. “I’ve been lucky like that a few times in my career,” he says. “With [directors] Michael Mann for Public Enemies, Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty and Baltasar [Kormákur] for Everest. There was a lot of pressure to cast a lot bigger names than me. I mean, [Christian] Bale was originally doing it.”

But Bale left and the rest of the names never really existed, says

Kormákur. “I was interested in someone who was working his way up,” says the Icelandic director, who liked Clarke’s “gravity” in Zero Dark Thirty. “Someone who was hungry and ready to go the lengths with me.”

And Clarke did it the only way he knows how: all in.

“You learn it in drama school, but you also learn it when travelling, especially backpacking,” says Clarke.

“You’ve got to throw yourself into it.

I backpacked a lot. Going around China, if you don’t understand where you’re going to change your money, what are you going to do? You’ve got to find where it is. As an actor, that’s your job.”

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t Christmas a few years ago, the Everest cast was filming scenes at Pinewood Studios near London when a huge storm hit Ireland and Scotland. Seizing the opportunity, Clarke and real-life Everest guide and consultant Guy Cotter got on a plane and headed north to 1,344m-high Ben Nevis in the Scottish Highlands.

“For two days, we went night climbing and abseiling in the storm, just to feel what it was like,” says Clarke. He wanted to understand how the little things, like a lost glove or a late start, could doom an expedition like Rob Hall’s in 1996, as famously chronicled in Jon Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air. “No one was like Jason,” says Cotter.

“We would spend hours going through Driving the Trophy Truck was meant to be a challenge. But the enthusiastic racer took to it quickly

the books, comparing accounts and discussing it in fine detail.”

Cotter was a young man when he joined Hall + Ball Adventure Consultants (the company set up by Rob Hall and business partner Gary Ball) in 1992, and the prospect of a film about his good friend was slightly worrying. The 1996 tragedy, in which eight climbers – including Hall – lost their lives when a storm hit during their descent, was a traumatic event that resonated way beyond the climbing community.

“There was every chance for it to be Hollywood-ised,” says Cotter. But Kormákur and Clarke got in touch soon after filming began and asked him to join the production. He became Clarke’s tutor in all things Hall, taking Clarke climbing in the mountains of his native New Zealand and on the Tasman Glacier. In Nepal, close to Everest Base Camp at 5,364m, Clarke would pester Cotter, asking him how he would move with this amount of oxygen deprivation, and how he’d communicate with the team.

And then there was the yak.

There’s a shot in the film where a herd of the beasts crosses a bridge.

Kormákur demanded a few takes and the yaks protested. “You could see them getting irate,” says Cotter.

Suddenly, one began to stampede, so Clarke and co-star Josh Brolin grabbed it by the horns before it sent someone over the cliff. It’s the kind of anecdote that sums up Clarke.

The day’s driving has come to an end and Clarke pulls himself out of the cab of the truck, his shades still on, the helmet off. He makes small talk with the catering guys reclining in the shade to escape the 30°C heat, his Australian twang subtle and charming. However high up the celebrity chain this acting thing takes him, Clarke wants to avoid becoming the awkward star: “I like my life, I like meeting people.”

Clarke spent a few months filming in Thailand this summer, then it was off to Prague to play a despised Nazi leader in a WWII movie, each trip a chance to find out a little more about the world. He recently became a father, and now legacy is on his mind too.

“There’s this famous quote: ‘Apart from his health, a man’s most valuable possession is his name.’ I don’t want to leave my kid with hundreds of millions of dollars. Find your own way. I think there’s adventure in that.”

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“In late 2011, a friend asked me if I wanted to spend two months on a ship sailing around Antarctica to show travel photographers how to work under extreme conditions.

Of course I said yes. I mounted my camera onto a telescopic rod so that I could photograph underwater from the ship. This kayak belongs to kayak guide Valerie Lubrick, who’s from Canada.”

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Dangerously beautiful BASE-jumps, icy storms and flights through the mountains of Pakistan: Krystle Wright’s job as a photographer has made an extreme sportswoman of her. The Australian turns her adventures into unique artworks. Here, she talks us through some of her favourites WORDS: ANDREAS ROTTENSCHLAGER PHOTOGRAPHY: KRYSTLE WRIGHT

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BAFFIN ISLAND, CANADA APRIL 17, 2010

“Baffin Island is a BASE-jumping paradise. The cliffs are over 1,500m high, there are flat landing areas and there are no police for miles around. The downsides are the blizzards and temperatures of well below -20°C, like when we were building our base camp on the first day of the expedition.”

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“In Moab you come across some of the best BASE-jumpers in the world. I immersed myself in their scene for four years for one photography project. This is American Matt Fleischman leaping from Looking Glass Arch, an iconic sandstone structure. You take off just 39m above ground.�

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HUNZA VALLEY, PAKISTAN MAY 25, 2011

“I often go to countries that the media tells us to avoid. In Pakistan, I went on a paragliding expedition to the Karakoram mountain range. We climbed to 7,000m and I experienced the screaming barfies in my hands.

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“Nalle Hukkataival is one of the best boulderers in the world.

Here, the Finn tries his arm at rock-climbing on the Groove Train, one of the toughest routes in Australia. It’s important for me to follow the athlete as closely as possible. So I climbed a boulder myself and shot from there.”

“BUY YOURSELF A TENT AND ESCAPE YOUR ROUTINE” the red bulletin: You earn your living as an adventure photographer. When was the last time you were scared on the job? krystle wright: This May. We wanted to climb University Peak, a 4,100m mountain in south-east Alaska. There’s a downhill slope there that can only be used occasionally.

When we got to the mountain, an avalanche came roaring through the route we’d planned to take. And then there were six more. And I understood, yet again, that there are times when you wouldn’t have a hope in hell of surviving.

You’re constantly exposed to these sorts of risks. How do you minimise the danger?

I have three rules. Plan meticulously, get experienced people on board and call off projects if they get too dangerous. That’s what we did that day in Alaska.

But even that doesn’t always work. In 2011, you had to be rescued when your paraglider crashed into a rock-face in Pakistan.

We were in the RakaposhiHaramosh Mountains. I was a passenger in a tandem paraglider and a gust of wind blew us off trajectory. We were on a very steep hill and I saw a cluster of boulders coming towards me. Then there was a bang. I blacked out. I came to some minutes later and my face was bleeding.

How did you get from the mountains to a hospital?

Paraglider Tom De Dorlodot landed in the village and organised the rescue chain.

A team fetched me off the mountain and we travelled

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waited there for another Jeep. We got to the hospital eight hours later. I reaped the rewards of rule two there: having professionals on board.

How do you cope with setbacks like that?

I didn’t have much choice but to throw myself into whatever work I could still do. As a freelancer, I had no salary to pay for the physiotherapist bills. I felt sorry for my exboyfriend as he tried helping me on a job where he carried my equipment out onto an Australian rules football field, while I followed on crutches.

My face had stitches and I had a very red eye. I think passers-by thought I was a victim of domestic abuse.

What do you learn about yourself when you’re constantly exposed to danger?

Your weaknesses are revealed mercilessly. So I can be patient when it comes to photography, but I can’t be at all when it comes to taking care of my health. That’s changed now.

Have you got any tips for how to get an adrenalin rush without risking your health?

Go camping.

Camping doesn’t sound all that extreme.

You’ll be surprised at all the things you learn about yourself when you leave your comfort zone and simply immerse yourself in the outdoors. twitter.com/krystlewright

“ For this photo, I was hoisted up the mast in a bosun’s chair. With the high winds, I tried my hardest to hang onto the mast while being shaken around. Luckily I managed to get this shot of kite surfer Brett Wright and his perfect turns.”

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“PLAYING DOCTOR WHO IS FRIGHTENING” PETER CAPALDI The award-winning actor and

director is used to success. But being in control of the Tardis has been an experience like no other

the red bulletin: Growing up as a die-hard fan of Doctor Who yourself, were you nervous about the huge expectations of the fans when you took on the role? peter capaldi: I was very nervous about playing the part, but I didn’t really think about the expectations of the fans. That’s never a useful thing to do, it would have only made me more nervous.

I just tried to think about playing the part of the Doctor as best as I could.

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But it must take guts to showcase your own take on this much-loved character?

I don’t think he’s altered too much. I felt very privileged to have the role, but it was frightening and still is.

Were you certain that an older, darker Doctor Who would work?

No, I had no idea, I just had to dive in. You can’t secondguess the audience and come up with a version of the Doctor that’s just for marketing. You have to come up with your own character, based on how you feel as an

it’s fine, because you’re being given lots of affection.

Which Doctor Who would you most like to go to the pub with?

Myself – I’m always happy to hang out with myself. I don’t dislike any qualities about the Doctor. I like the fact that he’s tricky and distant, then sometimes he’s friendly, sometimes clumsy, and sometimes he’s elegant.

How was your first Tardis experience as the Doctor?

I’d been in the show once with David (Tennant) in an episode called The Fires of Pompeii, which I thought would be my only involvement with Doctor Who. I was so pleased to be asked. In fact, I didn’t even

“IT SEEMED TO ME THE PREVIOUS DOCTOR WAS A VERY ACCESSIBLE DOCTOR. SO IT SEEMED RIGHT THAT I BE A LITTLE LESS FRIENDLY” actor, as an artist and try to be true to that, while at the same time playing the role that Steven (Moffat) writes.

It seemed to me that Matt (Smith, the previous Doctor), who I absolutely loved, was a very accessible and friendly doctor. So it seemed right that I be a little less friendly.

So you didn’t consider the prospect of the audience not warming to you?

I didn’t want to seek the audience’s approval. I think

to David Tennant, who gave me some advice. I said: “What’s going to change?” And he said: “Well, you’ll become just incredibly visible.” At home, in the UK, that means when you buy groceries or go to the doctor, people look at you all the time and want to chat…

It can’t be much fun for the Doctor to get hassled at the doctor’s…

It can be a little odd when you are waiting at the surgery, minding your business. But

read the script. I said: “I just want to do this!” My wife said: “No, you’re a professional actor, you have to read it and see what it’s like.” So I read it and off I went. David showed me the Tardis, which I found quite moving. I had no idea a few years later I’d be driving it myself. It’s very different now because I’m the centre of it. It’s a wonderful place to be.

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that it is really important not to go out to ask the audience to love you. I think they must find out whether they like you or not. It is a risk.

Now we know they’ve more than warmed to you, how scary is it to suddenly be the face of such a huge show?

I sort of try not to look down – do you know what I mean? If I become over-conscious of the scale of interest in it, then I think that would make me a difficult person to live with.

I mean I am difficult to live with, but it would make me even worse. I talked to Matt (Smith) about it the other day. I don’t think it’s a natural situation to be so easily recognised. And I’ve spoken

Time Lord timeline: Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor, director and now the 12th Doctor Who

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“I’M ALWAYS LOOKING FOR BIGGER RISKS” JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The American actor plays

the most legendary tightrope walker of all time – and learns valuable life lessons in the process

the red bulletin: Philippe Petit was 414m above ground when he performed his tightrope stunt between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. Have you wondered what that felt like? joseph gordon-levitt: I can imagine. I was at the top of the World Trade Center in July 2001. It wasn’t like being in a building, it was like being on board a plane.

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Did you have any reservations about the role?

Are you scared of heights?

Remember, I wasn’t doing it 100 storeys up. I don’t have a particular fear of heights, but my dad does. When he saw the movie he was crying out in terror throughout.

Can you imagine what it takes to perform a stunt like that?

Philippe is a huge control freak, but that’s also where his strength lies. He’s so well organised in what he does and that goes part of the way to explaining why he’s achieved everything he has. And it’s

HitRecord. Why did things work out in your favour?

I have a lot to be grateful to my parents for. They gave me self-confidence and taught me to always listen to myself instead of others telling me what I should be or think.

Have you ever tried anything that seemed impossible, like Philippe Petit?

Acting comes with its fair share of risks. And I’m hooked on them. I look for how I can take ever greater risks and then I try and overcome them. In that sense, The Walk is probably the greatest challenge of my career.

And was it simply courage that got you through?

It’s also a case of manipulating

“IT’S EASY TO SAY, ‘I CAN’T ACHIEVE ANYTHING. I CAN’T BE THE PERSON I’D LIKE TO BE.’ BUT THAT’S A COWARDLY ATTITUDE” also a sort of concentration game. When he taught me to walk on the tightrope he said, “You find a point to focus on straight in front of you. Only look at that and don’t think of anything else. You don’t look anywhere else. You don’t think of anything else. As soon as you lose your focus, you lose your balance, too. There’s a very deep connection between your body and mind.”

Would you want to do what Philippe Petit does?

Some people find certain things easier than others, because we know that life on Earth isn’t fair. But it would be even easier to say, “I don’t care about anything. I can’t achieve anything. I can’t be the person I’d like to be.”

That’s a cowardly attitude.

You’ve clearly realised your full potential. You’re one of the most heralded actors of your generation and you founded an innovative media website called

your mind. Philippe told me I shouldn’t say ‘fall’. Instead I would ‘decide when to step off’. So he was setting up a vocabulary of positive thinking.

That’s hugely important. I believe people who complain a lot have more bad things happen, whereas it tends to be other way around when you have a positive attitude.

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oseph GordonLevitt has come a long way since he became a household name in US sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. He’s starred in boxoffice hits like 10 Things I Hate About You, indie favourites such as (500) Days of Summer and enjoyed a range of mainstream successes from Looper to Lincoln. He even wrote, directed and starred in his own big-screen offering Don Jon which saw him getting up close and personal with Scarlett Johansson (being the scriptwriter clearly has its advantages). But in latest film The Walk, Gordon-Levitt reaches new heights.

I’m not the daredevil type who likes to jeopardise his physical wellbeing. That’s not how I get my kicks. I started at 60cm and when I was good enough, I moved up to 4m, which was the height I shot my scenes at. But even though I’m not particularly scared of heights, my body cramped up with fear because my instincts kicked in. I only really got used to it by the end of filming. But the way I see it, Philippe’s walk is more of a metaphor. You can achieve courageous things if you set your mind to it.

That’s a lot easier said than done…

Of course not everyone is cut out for it in the same way.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 34, likes a metaphor. “As soon as you lose your focus, you lose your balance, too�

Emmy Rossum, 28, never stops working. “Be the best version of yourself you can be�

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“VANITY IS YOUR ENEMY” EMMY ROSSUM The star of Shameless in the US

has life sussed in the real world: it’s about seizing the day and eating plenty of cheese on toast

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rom big-screen hits Beautiful Creatures, The Day After Tomorrow and last year’s You’re Not You, starring Hilary Swank, to smallscreen stardom in the US version of hit TV series Shameless, American actress Emmy Rossum is learning lessons at every turn.

the red bulletin: You once said in an interview, “Men only need two things to be happy: cheese on toast and sex.” emmy rossum: I was only joking.

Well, I’m sure there are plenty of men who wouldn’t disagree…

It’s true that men are wired more simply when it comes to their biological make-up.

They’re normally thinking about food or sex.

How about women?

If you’ll allow me to resort to a ridiculous generalisation, women are a lot more complex. Mainly in that they’re more emotional.

You’ve got to say the right thing at the right time to us.

Does your life philosophy include cheese on toast?

I try to live by the motto, “Carpe diem”. Seize the day.

We need to make a conscious effort to live in the here and now, because we don’t know how much time we have.

I met a lot of patients with (neurodegenerative disease) ALS when I was filming You’re Not You. That sort of experience keeps your feet on the ground.

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How does that grounding manifest itself in you?

I’m less afraid of illness now than I used to be. And I try to make even more of an emotional commitment to people who have problems.

If I see someone who needs help, I’m the first to get up and offer it. Avoiding people who are sick or just in some way different is the easiest thing to do. But it only takes a tiny effort to start a conversation. “What is it you have?” And then we talk about it.

What do you do if there are no people in dire need around you?

It’s about a basic attitude to life. In Shameless, I play a woman earning minimum wage to help her five siblings survive. It couldn’t be less glamorous, but through her I learnt to give up vanity totally. Vanity is your enemy.

The moment you start thinking about how you look, your brain blocks off everything else.

You once said that your Jewish heritage influences your view on life...

I identify more with the culture than the religion.

I don’t speak Hebrew. I don’t keep kosher. But that’s not what it’s all about. The Jewish code of ethics and morals is at the heart of most other religions, too. Don’t lie.

Be good to your nearest and dearest. Work hard. If you see someone who needs help, help him. Be the best version of yourself you can be.

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Qbert, 45, makes things click. “You only get better by interacting with others”

“YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW” QBERT is one of the best turntablists in the world.

The secret of his success? He reveals his tricks the red bulletin: The deejaying world is very competitive, as you know from having won the world championship three times yourself. Why do you share your tricks with the competition? qbert: I used to read spiritual books when I was a teenager and I was impressed by the notion of karma: “You reap what you sow.” So that’s why I started teaching young DJs my skills early on. That gave my creativity an enormous boost.

So it’s all about cosmic balance?

Well, you automatically improve by performing your tricks.

Plus it gets you thinking about your technique, and that in turn gives you new ideas. You only get better by interacting with others. And quite aside from all that, there’s nothing more fulfilling than seeing the smile of a pupil the moment something clicks. Working with someone is more satisfying than competing against them.

Qbert and his DJ crew, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, will be performing at Red Bull Thre3style in Tokyo on September 20. Live stream: redbullthre3style.com

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PAIN IS MY FRIEND Daniela Ryf doesn’t beat pain, overcome pain or avoid pain. Instead, the European Ironman champion knows how to put it to good use, as an affirmation, motivation and a source of energy WORDS: ALEXANDER LISETZ PHOTOGRAPHY: PHILIPP MUELLER STYLING: CLAUDIA HOFMANN MAKE-UP: TANYA KOCH

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he day before Daniela Ryf competed in her first Ironman competition, she did everything you’re not supposed to do. She decided not to rest that Saturday in July 2014 for the 3.8km swim, 180.2km cycle and 42.2km run she faced in less than 24 hours’ time. Instead, she chose to do the Olympic distances of a 1.5km swim, 40km cycle and 10km run.

Her mental preparation was winning that race on Saturday, and seeing how her backside handled it (“Would it be killing me after five hours in the saddle?”). For dinner, she had pizza, fried sausages, spaghetti Bolognese, ice cream and chocolate.

As Ryf stood on the starting line the next day, her coach, Brett Sutton, told her, “Just think of it as a training run.

If you don’t finish, it doesn’t matter.”

“OK,” said the 5ft 9in athlete, who still thought of herself as a specialist over the shorter Olympic distance.

Nine-and-a-quarter hours later, she crossed the finish line at the Zurich Ironman competition in first place.

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“That’s when I began to believe that Ironman could be my thing,” she says.

Just to get through an Ironman – let alone go on and win one – you have to have an unusual relationship with physical torture. Most athletes manage to overcome it or hold it at bay. But this 28-year-old from Switzerland does things a little differently – Ryf uses the pain to her advantage.

“Pain is the sign that I’m taking things to the next level,” she says, “It tells me that my body and I are crossing a threshold I’ve never reached before.”

In other words, Ryf is motivated by pain. If it hurts, then she tries to take it up another notch. Why? Because she wants to know what her body – “this lazy machine”, as she calls it – is really capable of. “Because whatever doesn’t hurt is just your comfort zone.”

When Ryf leaves her comfort zone, it’s not just her muscles begging and pleading for her to stop all this torture.

Her rivals suffer, too. Since 2013, she’s been crowned European champion twice and world champion once over the middle distance, European champion over the Olympic distance and European Ironman champion. Ryf trains for up to seven hours a day to make that happen.

A quick Sunday marathon or a bike ride from Bern to Zurich are standard for her.

Does the pain that goes with training also motivate her when she’s competing?

“No,” she says. “I push myself to the limit in training so that I don’t have to when I’m competing. Competing is just like a university exam where you show whether you’re well prepared or not.”

Although Ryf’s life revolves around training, the bubble that so many top athletes live in is, in her case, full of holes.

She’s not all that interested in sport, for example. Or, to be more specific, interested in talking about it. “I talk to my friends about the state of affairs, politics and personal stuff, but never

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about sport,” she says. She follows Banksy JK Rowling, Maria Sharapova, and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Twitter.

She studies Food Science & Management in Bern and “definitely” wants to do something in that area in the future – “preferably healthy eating for people who aren’t at all bothered about healthy eating”. She once spoke to Dave Scott, a legendary triathlete who has won Ironman Hawaii six times, for a quarter of an hour without realising who he was.

That compulsion to move, which means that Ryf is out on her bike or on the running track after every university lecture, is something she inherited from her family. Her father is a mountain guide, her mother a marathon runner and her stepfather a triathlete. She scraped together the money for her first racing bike herself when she was 14 by working on the conveyor belt at her stepfather’s

“Whatever doesn’t hurt is just your comfort zone”

“Pain is the sign that I’m taking things to the next level” tool-making company during the school holidays. “I worked 10-hour shifts,” she says, “pushing the same button 60 times a minute, just so I could earn as much money as possible.”

In 2000, Ryf competed in a school triathlon, and then joined a junior team.

The triathlon suited her. “There are no tactics and no tricks. The quickest person wins. That’s all there is to it.”

In the same way that Ryf is opposed to clever tactics and tricks, she also

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eschews another basic cultural nicety that is common in the world of top sportspeople: diplomatic drivel. Instead, she says things like, “I want to be first,” and, “Sometimes I compare my body to my fellow competitors and I’m intimidated when they look fitter than I do.”

Ryf was heralded by the experts after her debut appearance at the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii – the most prestigious event of the year – in October 2014, where she finished second in what is effectively the world championships.

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Only three-time world champion Mirinda Carfrae of Australia finished ahead of her. And all this just a few months after making her Ironman debut in Zurich.

But the plaudits were no consolation to the rising star. “I’m disappointed,” she said truculently when interviewed afterwards. “I wanted to win.”

Thoughts of revenge are a motivating factor every time Ryf trains. She thinks of that moment last October when she lost the world championships. She’d finished the cycle a couple of minutes

ahead of the second-placed rider, and for 35km of the run she was out in front on her own. But then her main rival managed to surge past her and, in the end, was too fast to catch.

When Ryf goes on training runs now, the pace she sets for herself is the speed at which she was overtaken by Mirinda Carfrae that crushing day.

And when the pain comes, she takes it up a notch. Then she keeps up that pace until the pain subsides. danielaryf.ch

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HIGH TAILING IT WHERE DOES THE FUTURE OF SAILING LIE? WITH THOSE WHO REALISE EARLY THAT THE IMPOSSIBLE IS POSSIBLE

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The earlier sailors master this stroke of physics-based genius, the better. Which is why the Red Bull Foiling Generation regattas are aimed at talented sailors aged 16-20 from all over the world.

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Foiling technology is new, and it’s here to stay. So say two-time Olympic gold medal winners Roman Hagara and Hans-Peter Steinacher, the men in charge of the Red Bull Foiling Generation, because foils create serious speed. They offer almost no resistance in the water, with even a little wind increasing the pace. Flying Phantom catamarans can reach 35 knots, which is over 60kph.

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While skimming over the water on their foils, the catamarans react instantly to the slightest manoeuvre.

Just keeping the boat going straight ahead is hard enough, but when tacking and gybing, the boats turn into nervous racehorses, chasing down every wave. If the foils tip up at high speed, the results are dramatic.

The vessel plunges head first into the water and the crew is thrown mercilessly overboard.

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MOVING ON UP In the Red Bull Foiling Generation regattas, the winner of each head-tohead battle advances to the next round. The high-octane competition takes two years, with the world final set to play out in late 2016. The best young sailors will then have the chance to ascend the ranks, via the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup, the Extreme Sailing Series and the America’s Cup redbull.com

Party people: MC Travis Scott gets the crowd jumping

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YARD PARTY IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST HIP-HOP EVENTS IN THE WORLD AND TRANSFORMS THE GRAND PALAIS IN PARIS INTO A RAP TEMPLE… FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY WORDS: PH CAMY PHOTOGRAPHY: KEFFER

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“IT’S THE BEST HIP-HOP PARTY IN FRANCE. IT’S A HUGE EVENT” The Grand Palais is 72,000m² and opened its doors in 1900.

On June 26, 5,000 revellers came to hear the latest sounds (left). Right: rapper Niska, surrounded by his entourage Crowd pleaser: everybody wants to get close to American rapper Travis Scott

It’s getting hot in here… the Yard party crowd are dressed for dancing

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he queue is huge. It’s 1am and people are arriving in their hundreds, eager to get into the Grand Palais. It’s a 72,000m² monster of steel, stone and glass that was inaugurated at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900.

But there’s no Belle Époque nostalgia here. The Grand Palais is modern.

And this is where the biggest party of the summer in Paris is kicking off.

“Keffer to Yoan...” Photographer Keffer contacts Yoan Prat using

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a security guard’s walkie-talkie. Prat and Tom Brunet, founders of creative agency Yard, are in charge of the event, and Prat appears through a side entrance with the all-important access-all-areas passes. He’s wearing white Air Force 1 basketball shoes, which aren’t at all out of place. In fact, almost everyone at Yard is over 190cm tall. Prat and Brunet met on the court, and that fact is now reflected in the dress code.

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The party keeps going backstage too. Our photographer, Keffer, takes us with him behind the scenes

“AN AMAZINGLY MIXED CROWD WITH UNTOLD ENERGY. WILLING TO BE DIFFERENT TO MAKE A POINT” Girls Girls Girls, Kyu St33d, Endrixx and Yannick Do are all here.

If the crowd was a smoking volcano before, it erupts when the light show starts. There are already more than 3,500 people packing the venue. Leading up from the masses, a monumental, grand double staircase winds its way to the VIP floor. It’s up there you get the best view of the impressive and intricate Nave, fashioned from more steel than it took to make the Eiffel Tower.

The space is huge and the sound system is scaled to suit. “Here, you’re mostly getting modern hip-hop with Future Bass, African music and dancehall influences for modern, lively cities,” says Prat.

“It’s an incredibly mixed young crowd with endless energy,” adds Brunet. “They’re here to be different, to make a point.”

The crowd is a combination of white, black, Asian, Middle Eastern… People are dolled up to the nines in stylish designs or dressed very simply, like they’re headed to the basketball court. Some drink glasses of water, others champagne.

And there are lots of attractive women clearly in their element.

At about 2am, rapper Niska takes to the stage and the crowd is buzzing. It’s the reaction the organising duo hoped for. “Niska is the internet discovery of 2015,” says Brunet. “We totally wanted to be the first people to get him out there.”

But the person most of the revellers here are waiting for is American rapper Travis Scott. The excitement has been building all day on social networks, ticket holders boasting, those who missed out lamenting. “I want total chaos!” roars Scott when he finally arrives. But he isn’t on stage for long. He jumps into the crowd and then a few seconds later he reappears minus his top. Scott sprays champagne all over the sound system like a man possessed, soaking DJ Endrixx at the controls in the process. Virgil Abloh, a New Yorker who also happens to be the creative director for Kanye West, appears out of nowhere, clearly used to alcohol-related meltdowns. He hooks Travis up to another system and the 76

show goes on. Scott really gets the party going before leaving the stage. Then Pablo Attal from the Yard crew roars into the microphone, “All the Africans out there, make some noise!”

Anyone who loves sub-Saharan sounds gets their money’s worth from DJ Yannick Do, who brings the party to a close with music from Nigeria, Ghana, Congo and Ivory Coast. “African music at the Grand Palais is an historic moment,” Yannick shouts. “This is the future of France right here in front of me.” Though

this doesn’t apply to American Owen Wilson, it’s at this moment the actor appears on the grand staircase. As does Sonia Rolland, a former Miss France.

And then there’s Nekfeu, one of France’s best-known rappers, chilling on the dancefloor. Here, the eclectic crowd is just focused on the music, 5,000 dedicated revellers dancing until dawn.

It’s the last thing the 1,500 workers who built the Grand Palais more than 120 years ago could have imagined. oneyard.com THE RED BULLETIN

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Forget speedboats.

To experience what it’s like to fly over ocean waves at over 40mph (65kph) with nothing but brute strength to stop you being hurled overboard, you have to jump onboard a Zapcat.

Booming in popularity with adrenalin-seeking seafarers everywhere, Zapcats are small catamarans built for just one thing: going very, very fast.

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St Andrews, Scotland Edinburgh Want to learn how to perform stunts like a pro? Visit: blownaway.co.uk

Swing low Take in a few rounds in one of golf’s most historic settings.

The aptly named ‘Old Course’ has been hosting players since the 15th century and is the reason St Andrews is known as the home of golf. standrews.com

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“YOU HAVE TO BE RELATIVELY FIT,” SAYS McKENZIE. “YOU’LL BE USING YOUR LEG AND ARM MUSCLES TO HOLD YOURSELF IN THE BOAT, AND YOU HAVE TO BE AGILE AND NINJA-LIKE TO HELP MANOEUVRE IT. HOLD ON AND GET LOW TO GO FASTER”

speed going into 90- and 180-degree turns. They’re amazing pieces of kit.”

With turns that fast, Zapcat riders will experience a G-force of 3G – just below that of an F1 car. And newbies don’t get much adjustment time. “We have one co-pilot per driver to make it faster and more exciting,” McKenzie says. “But they’re not just sitting there holding on for dear life – they’re responsible for helping balance and manoeuvre the boat around the turns. If you have one person in a Zapcat, it’ll almost do a wheelie with the amount of power if you accelerate hard. You need the second person to keep the weight down at the front to allow it to travel forward, not up in the air.”

Racing at high speeds in a lightweight vessel means there’s a risk of wipeouts – search YouTube for ‘Bad Day at the Zapcat Office!’ However, McKenzie says, they’re few and far between. “Yeah, our insurance company saw that YouTube clip, too,” he laughs. “That’s the fully prepared racing guys who are out in a championship-style event. We’re looking to get the same feeling, but we’re not trying to kill people! It’s full on, though, definitely a ‘hold on tight’ experience.”

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Wind power The adrenalin experience continues with X-sailing – land yachting across the expansive West Sands beach. With a constant wind, these agile three-wheelers can reach the same speeds as a Zapcat. x-sail.com

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There are no seats, no steering wheel and no harnesses: it’s just an inflatable twin hull and a 50bhp engine. Pilots navigate via a tiller system and rely on the shifting bodyweight of both themselves and their co-pilot to keep the vessel on course – especially when taking on Mother Nature’s mighty swells.

Jumping waves and leaping up to 1.8m in the air are all part of the fun, though, which is why the choppy waters of the North Sea are perfect for experiencing Zapcatting in all its rough-and-ready glory.

“A white-knuckle ride is a good description,” says Guy McKenzie, Zapcat pilot and co-founder of St Andrews-based adventure outfit Blown Away. “It’s high-adrenalin. In terms of car speeds, the Zapcats travel at 40mph (65kph) or more, which on water is pretty quick. You can even keep that

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ROAD WARRIOR Hublot Big Bang Ferrari Titanium Carbon

Unmistakeable Scuderia hallmarks on the Big Bang Ferrari Titanium Carbon include the Cavallino Rampante (the prancing horse) on the left, and the chronograph counter in red and date window in yellow – the classic Ferrari colours – on the right

When it comes to cool watches based on fast cars, Hublot and Ferrari’s latest design isn’t so much ‘inspired by’ as forged in the garage itself. To mark the third year of their collaboration, the Hublot team spent time with the Ferrari design studio staff, engineers and technicians, visiting the factory and studying the materials they used. The result?

A timepiece that’s unlike anything else on the market. Making the most of the Swiss watchmaker’s taste for ‘fusion’, the Big Bang Ferrari’s sporty 45mm case blends advanced elements including versatile carbon fibre (lighter than aluminium, stronger than steel), anti-corrosive titanium and, erm, rubber to create a look and feel that’s unique. And, fittingly for a Ferrari, there’s just as much going on under the hood as on the surface: the self-winding Unico movement (manufactured in-house by Hublot) comprises 330 handassembled components, while the flyback chronograph means the watch is safe at pressures of up to 10 bar. It even has Ferrari’s exclusive edge; with only 1,000 of these bad boys in existence, expect them to disappear faster than the Scuderia’s finest. hublot.com

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Chopard Superfast Chrono Porsche 919 Jacky Ickx Edition Chopard commemorates the 70th birthday of six-time Le Mans winner Jacky Ickx with this limited edition of 100. The 45mm steel case houses an in-house automatic mechanism, and it’s waterproof to 10 bar. chopard.com

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Oris Audi Sport GMT From the German carmaker comes the Audi Sport GMT, a steel watch with a 44mm case and a dial inspired by the dashboard of the car it’s named after.

The timepiece also has a rotor winding movement, 24-hour hand and significant function display. audi.com

Breitling Bentley GMT Light Body B04 Midnight Carbon Breitling has been working with Bentley since 2002, and their latest creation boasts a titanium case with a robust, carbon-based coating, automatic winding mechanism and a time-zone display on the bezel. breitling.com

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Top-gear fashion fixes from the pros

Ferrari goes big on turbo with fewer emissions

Mini Gentleman’s Collection Mini has unveiled a capsule collection of accessories by young Italian designers, comprising a hat, sunglasses, shoes, a bag, fragrance and a shaving kit. mini.com

Casa Maserati Maserati has opened a new shop and lounge bar on Piazza San Fedele in Milan’s famous fashion district, stocked with products from brands including Ermenegildo Zegna, La Martina, Dr Vranjes and Bulgari. maserati.com

Red Bull Racing Eyewear The colourful ‘Young Line’ collection consists of six different models with a mix of four fun designs. They’ve got a technical edge, too: the frames are made from TR90, a material that’s much more robust than the usual plastic used in sunglasses and is flexible enough to bend, not snap, under pressure. racing-eyewear.com

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To the delight of supercar fans and vendors of posters for teenagers’ bedroom walls, the Ferrari 488 GTB, unveiled earlier this year in Geneva, is now rolling out of showrooms.

The new model is a very different animal to its predecessor, the 458 Italia, dropping over half a litre of displacement, but delivering an extra 100hp from its new 3.9-litre twin-turbo direct-injection V8.

A turbocharged Ferrari is still everso-slightly controversial, but even the Scuderia has to live in the real world – or at least the real world as defined by government emissions drive cycles – and reduce CO2 output. The 488 GTB might not have quite the same emotional appeal as an old-school,

normally aspirated model that revs to infinity and beyond, but it’s still got the chops to turn wealthy middle-aged men into giggling schoolboys when they floor the throttle.

It’s also technically impressive.

Maranello may have been dragged kicking and screaming into Formula One’s economy era, but there’s doubtless crossover to be leveraged from the direct-injection turbo engine used in motorsport’s premier category. There’s an awful lot of literature about response times and power delivery, but the bottom line is a car that, in the hands of professionals, laps Ferrari’s Fiorano circuit slightly faster than the top-ofthe-range 458 Speciale. ferrari.com

The Ferrari 488 GTB: a twin-turbo supercar with a 3.9-litre V8 (below), taking you from 0-100kph in just three seconds

GOING FOR GOLD The GT-R celebrates its birthday in style

A 45th anniversary is traditionally celebrated with sapphires – but for its Limited Edition 45th Anniversary GT-R, Nissan has cracked open the champagne instead.

The modern GT-R shares little DNA with the original Skyline GT-R, but there’s still reason to rejoice. Nissan is making 100 special-edition models, painted champagne gold in a nod to 2001’s Skyline R34 GT-R M-spec. As well as the eye-catching paint job, you’ll find a commemorative plaque on the centre console and a special serial number in the engine bay, along with all the standard 2015 GT-R features. But if you don’t think a four-wheel drive, 3.8-litre, twin-turbo V6 that delivers 550hp is special already, you really need a test drive. nissan.co.uk

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CULTURE An interstellar Matt Damon has to fend for himself on Mars

COMING ATTRACTIONS The best new releases to keep you entertained

TV Heroes Reborn Heroes is back for a new 13-episode miniseries, following a five-year break.

Resurrected by original series creator Tim Kring, Heroes Reborn introduces a new group of people with extraordinary abilities. A UK deal is rumoured to be imminent. nbc.com/heroes-reborn

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American author Andy Weir on how his debut novel was transformed into upcoming movie The Martian, starring Matt Damon

The Red Bulletin: The Martian has been on an impressive journey – from self-published ebook to New York Times bestseller to Hollywood movie in just four years…

Andy Weir: It’s been the most surreal thing. It’s kind of hard to describe, like you’re watching someone else’s life play out.

The story sees astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) left behind on Mars and having to use science to survive.

Where did you get the idea?

I’m a space nut. This was just me speculating: how could we do a manned Mars mission with the tech we have right now?

How would the crew cope if things went wrong? So I created an unfortunate protagonist and subjected him to all of these increasingly desperate problems. It was really important to me that it was scientifically accurate – I’m a really picky reader and it drives me crazy when I see scientific inaccuracies.

I was like, ‘OK, you’ve got to go the whole hog on this.’

How did you feel when you heard director Ridley Scott wanted to make it into a movie?

Suddenly a bunch of my dreams were coming true. He’s made some iconic sci-fi movies and I love the way he directs. He likes huge landscapes, and that scale is perfect for Mars.

How has the success of The Martian affected you?

I always wanted to be a full-time writer, but I wasn’t willing to take the financial risk. I was a computer programmer my whole life and I wrote The Martian as a hobby. Now it’s made enough money for me to live on, I’ve quit my day job and I’m working on my next book. I’m taking my shot.

The Martian opens in the UK on September 30. For more, go to redbulletin.com/AndyWeir

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HE’S GOT GAME Director Ridley Scott is no stranger to sci-fi.

Check out his greatest hits Alien (1979) Sigourney Weaver faces an oily, metal-jawed extraterrestrial, and a new sci-fi heroine is born. Scott mixed horror and sci-fi to chilling effect in his first masterpiece.

Blade Runner (1982) Harrison Ford’s detective takes on android ‘replicant’ Rutger Hauer in a stunning future noir adapted from a book by sci-fi godfather Philip K Dick.

Prometheus (2012) Noomi Rapace is pitted against our creators in this epic prequel to the Alien franchise, which marked Scott’s longawaited return to sci-fi. A sequel is in the works.

FILM Crimson Peak Mexican director Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) returns to his dark roots for this old-school gothic horror. Mia Wasikowska plays a young bride whose mysterious new husband (Thor’s Tom Hiddleston) is not all he seems. legendary.com

GAME Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Set in Victorian London, the ninth instalment of the stealth combat series sees twin assassins Jacob and Evie Frye fight to regain control of the city.

Out in October on PS4 and Xbox One. assassinscreed.ubi.com

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CULTURE ROCK ’N’ READ Punk myths, riot grrl tales and 50 shades of Grace – new memoirs from three of music’s most iconic women

Chrissie Hynde Reckless From shop assistant at notorious boutique SEX (aka the birthplace of punk) to rock icon with The Pretenders, Hynde tells her story across 320 pages.

Carrie Brownstein Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl Memoirs at the age of 40? When you’ve been a feminist role model, rock icon (Sleater-Kinney) and TV star (Portlandia), it’s more than justified.

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Grace Jones I’ll Never Write My Memoirs In her 1981 song Art Groupie, Jones famously said she’d never write her memoirs. Luckily for us, she’s broken the promise with a book that reportedly contains juicy stories about Warhol and Schwarzenegger.

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THE PLAYLIST FOALS If there’s one young band that deserves comparison with Talking Heads, it’s Foals. Just like David Byrne’s legendary group, this British five-piece skilfully blend leftfield styles such as post-punk, disco funk and math rock with soaring indie-pop melodies. Following the success of 2013’s Holy Fire, which peaked at number two in the UK and topped the Australian album chart, the band have unveiled the follow-up, What Went Down, with a heavier, guitar-driven element added to the mix. Here, 29-year-old frontman Yannis Philippakis reveals five songs that have influenced his songwriting. foals.co.uk

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The Passenger

“The first time I listened to this song [from the 2013 album Impersonator] was on New Year’s Day last year. It was like I had an intimate companion in my head, helping me through my hangover.

The tune is sparse – it’s all about the vocals. They make you feel like you’re in a poetic Alcoholics Anonymous meeting with someone telling you his innermost fears. It’s a dark, deep record, and I’ll love it for ever.”

“I discovered this song when I was 15. A girl I had a crush on made me a mix cassette with this tune on it. My parents didn’t listen to rock music, so it was the first time I realised that classic rock hits are classics for a reason. The Passenger is so amazing and timeless because it’s such a simple song – there’s no trickery.

That honesty is exactly what I crave when I write music.”

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Golden Arrow

Old Alabama

“I love this electronic duo, because every decision they make is the opposite of what I’d do musically. Take this track [from the 2013 album Psychic]: there are so many moments when I’d expect something to kick in, but they reverse it and create more negative space.

There’s a lot of space in Darkside’s psychedelic cosmos and yet it feels natural, which I enjoy a lot.”

“This song is on an album called Prison Songs Volume One: Murderous Home, a compilation of US recordings from the 1940s.

The way those incarcerated men sing is so touching. It’s like they’re channelling their souls through this song, drumming the rhythm with pickaxes. It’s haunting, and it reminds you that the most powerful music in the world is just a voice and a beat. You don’t need anything else.”

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An accurate sense of rhythm is an essential skill for those who play music, and the Soundbrenner Pulse – the first smartwatch for musicians – keeps you on the beat. This wearable metronome silently vibrates and flashes your chosen tempo, and has a training mode that corrects you if you stray. You can set the speed via an iPhone app, and even sync your entire band while performing live. soundbrenner.com

Dean Blunt War Report “This elusive producer does modern London like nobody else, and in his voice and lyrics, he captures a kind of fractured Britishness. War Report [from the recent EP Babyfather] is a weirdly appealing song that feels like he wrote it in half an hour in a hotel room. It’s thin and unadorned, which makes it sound very human. It’s surely not everybody’s cup of tea, but I’m a big fan of his.”

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Own the water “Great Whites are surprisingly meek in their interactions with other predators. When preying on seals, it’s the tiny, defenceless pups they’ll go for. In their confrontations with each other, they’ll swim side by side to compare who’s biggest, and the smaller one will swim off at top speed. When you’re in the water with a Great White, be big, have attitude and confidence, watch your back and the sharks will ignore you.”

Steve Backshall likes sharks. The award-winning wildlife TV presenter has had a lifelong fascination with the marine animals and is a patron of The Shark Trust, a charity dedicated to their conservation.

Through his work on programmes such as Deadly 60 and Swimming With Monsters, Backshall has learnt the importance of showing sharks a healthy respect when sharing their waters. If you encounter one in the wild, this lesson could save your life. “Bear in mind that if you do get attacked by a shark, these much-maligned and beautiful animals will be demonised,” he says, “regardless of whether it was their fault or not.” sharktrust.org/en/no_limits

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Choose carefully where you swim “There’s only one place on Earth I’m aware of where you can dive outside the cage with a Great White – in Guadelupe, Mexico, where the water is so clear the shark can see you’re not prey. [Only one operator is known to have offered this controversial practice.] Otherwise, diving with Great Whites is done from a cage, full stop. In the murky waters around Dyer Island in South Africa, where these sharks shoot up from depth to hit seals at the surface, to go for a swim would be… unwise.”

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Watch their body language “Sharks will tell you if they’re in a dangerous mood. If a shark has its back arched, its mouth open and gills billowing, pectoral fins dropped low, and its movements are sharp and angular, it’s ready for action.

Stay inside the cage! But if the shark is moving languidly with its mouth closed and its fins splayed wide like wings, it’s merely cruising.”

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Take note of your surroundings “It doesn’t matter how much money or time you’ve spent getting to Guadelupe or any other diving location. If it’s getting close to dusk – which is when sharks tend to switch into predatory mode – or if the visibility is poor, or there are more sharks than planned, or anything is less than perfect, don’t be a hero: pull the dive immediately.”

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Feel no fear “Don’t be afraid. Sharks have evolved to focus on stress signals in prey and can sense your fear.

Faster breathing and a quickened pulse are transmitted through the water as vibrations. So breathe deeply and relax.”

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Monk-eying around

Peacock Theatre, London

Chances are you wouldn’t associate monks with acts of ass-kicking, death-defying showmanship. But for the stars of new show Shaolin (running until October 17) , they’re par for the course. Practising Shaolin Kung Fu – one of the oldest styles of Chinese martial arts – from the age of four, this 30-strong cast of Shaolin monks are bringing their formidable physical prowess to the West End stage. And with their ability to do handstands on two fingers, balance their bodies on spear tips and break iron rods over their heads, it’s sure to be a jaw-dropping experience. peacocktheatre.com

November 1 Through the glen

November 14 White stuff

Sherwood Pines Forest, Nottinghamshire

Stratford, London

Test your speed, stamina and navigational nous at Red Bull Robin Hood – an orienteering endurance race where competitors can up their score by completing extra challenges (including archery) in the home of the legendary outlaw. This year’s event adds a team category, so you can compete with your own band of Merry Men. redbull.com/robinhood

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With Snowboard Big Air becoming an Olympic discipline at PyeongChang 2018, all eyes will be on the Freeze Big Air snowsports and music festival as it plays host to the 2015 FIS Snowboard World Cup. Expect to see some local medal prospects emerge. freezebigair.com Event host: Olympic medallist Jenny Jones

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October 1 Mad world Dublin, Ireland

Three film fests offering the best of the big screen

After rave reviews down under, veteran stage and TV comic Bill Bailey brings his latest show to Dublin for three crazy nights before a huge six-month tour of Ireland and the UK. Themed around “the gap between how we imagine our lives to be and how they really are”, Limboland sees the surrealist stand-up deliver a new batch of bizarre family travelogues, quick-witted satirical rants and even some of his signature songs. billbailey.co.uk

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October 23-26 All that jazz

October 12-16 Heavy metal

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Stratford, London

Taking over the rebel city’s best venues, the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival offers four solid days of jazz, funk and soul from the best international talent. This year’s headliner is New York legend Marcus Miller, who’s played with everyone from Miles Davis to Jay Z. guinnessjazzfestival.com

The 2015 BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge is heading to the Olympic Park’s Copper Box Arena and sees eight teams from around the world battling for supremacy in this fast, brutal and bone-shatteringly full-on contest.

It’s not nicknamed ‘murderball’ for nothing... wwrc15.com

Rachel Atherton: 21st-century fox

September 26-27 She’s behind you!

Pentland Hills, Edinburgh The hunters become the hunted at Red Bull Foxhunt, an all-female, mass-start mountain biking spectacle. With the tables turned, it’s the ‘fox’ – in this case, multiple downhill champ Rachel Atherton – who’s in control. She’ll be aiming to oust the competitors by overtaking them after their 10-second head start, with over 100 riders trying to outpace one of the world’s best. redbull.co.uk/foxhunt

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October 4 Big hitters Wembley Stadium, London

The UK’s answer to Sundance, this diverse and dynamic film fest (now in its 23rd year) is one of the country’s biggest and best independent and short film showcases. There are lots of workshops for budding filmmakers, too. raindance.org

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October BFI London Film Festival Held over two weeks, the LFF offers the chance to get a first look at some of next year’s biggest Oscar contenders. This year’s opener is Suffragette, starring Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan. bfi.org.uk/lff

With American Football getting more and more popular in the UK, the NFL is heading back to Wembley for the 2015 International Series – a threegame showcase of one of the USA’s biggest sporting franchises.

Kicking off the mini-season are the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets – two east-coast teams with an infamous rivalry stretching back to their first meeting in 1966.

With the stats suggesting an even match-up (they’re tied on five wins apiece since 2010), this promises to be an epic clash and a great advert for the game – with all the cheerleading spectacle you’d expect. wembleystadium.com

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October London Surf / Film Festival One of the newest film festivals on the block, this is the UK’s largest celebration of surf culture, featuring screenings, pop-up events, live music and Q&As with the “heroes of surf and screen”. londonsurffilm festival.com

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Anso sunglasses by O’Neill oneill.com

Hero 4 Session camera by GoPro gopro.com

This tech-heavy helmet won’t weigh you down For riders on two wheels, a pair of skis or a snowboard, this new offering from K2 has what you need. It ain’t heavy, weighing in at just 60g more than the lightest helmet ever created, but that doesn’t mean it’s light on tech. Its magnetic goggle strap eliminates fuss, and its new Passive Channel Ventilation System is designed to keep you cool in all conditions. Then there’s the built-in Baseline Audio system, which means all you need to worry about is choosing the right soundtrack for your session.

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Hunter balaclava by Dakine dakine.com

Stash audio helmet by K2 k2ski.com

Skylab John Jackson Collab goggles by VonZipper vonzipper.com

M3 Merrill Pro goggles by Anon anonoptics.com

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Outrival jacket by Dare2b dare2b.com

Lite-Show jacket by Asics asics.com

Pace Norviz Heat jacket by Helly Hansen hellyhansen.com

Ventura Elvis 80 wristwatch by Hamilton hamiltonwatch.com

Induction shell by Black Diamond blackdiamondequipment.com

A distinctive jacket that’s related to a stunt kite More than just a pretty pattern, there’s substance to go with the style.

This jacket is made from ripstop polyester, the same fabric used for stunt kites and paragliding canopies.

But rather than giving you a lift, in this case it keeps the wind firmly at bay, as do the adjustable scuba hood, cuffs and hem. You’ll still be as agile as ever while enjoying respite from the elements, with underarm insets ensuring you have a full range of movement.

So you can wave when your striking slicker gets you noticed.

Kilowatt Jacket by The North Face thenorthface.com

SB Steele Lightweight Geo Dye Jacket

by Nike nike.com

UPPER CLASS Welcome whatever nature decides to throw at you with versatile bodywear that won’t let you down

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The pants for taking on the toughest terrain in comfort

Easy O’Riginals joggers by O’Neill oneill.com

If you’re on an adventure in tricky conditions, it’s important your trousers don’t leave you out in the cold. The outside of these snow pants is waterproof and windproof, so you can stride fearlessly into the unknown. On the inside, a unique inner layer of merino wool ensures you stay comfortable and sweat-free. With built-in gaiters and three layers of insulation, they should be every winter explorer’s best friend.

Guardian shell snow pants by Ortovox ortovox.com

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Daybreaker joggers by Adidas adidas.com

War Paint joggers by Quiksilver quiksilver.com

Kilowatt pant by The North Face thenorthface.com

Karl trousers by Fjall Raven fjallraven.com

Workpant from the Skateboard collection

by Levis levis.com

FRESH LEGS Drinks with friends? Hitting the slopes? Working out? Make sure your trousers are good to go

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Pace Norviz tights by Helly Hansen hellyhansen.com

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Rover Mid-Top shoes by Reef reef.com/eu

Speedform Fortis running shoes by Under Armour underarmour.com

SB Stefan Janoski Skateboarding shoes

by Nike nike.com

Clifton 2 running shoes by Hoka One One hokaoneone.eu

Hammer Run shoes by Supra suprafootwear.com

33-DFA running shoes by Asics asics.com

These boots are as happy in town as in the mountains There’s no doubting this is one tough pair of boots. The suede finish is durable, and the Gortex lining ensures that anything that’s encountered on the outside doesn’t get anywhere near you. Then there’s the microporous, shock-absorbent sole and ankle support to ease wear and tear on your feet. But, although these boots won’t be phased by a trek or two, you don’t have to go scaling mountains in order to wear them. Italian brand Dolomite has given them a sleek design and muted colour that makes them an equally attractive choice for urban exploring, perhaps in the less demanding terrain of the pub.

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Cinquantaquattro High Fg Gtx boots

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Kinvara 6 running shoes by Saucony saucony.com

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