As thick smoke fills the air, a Tamil Nadu firefighter rushes toward a burning building. Spotting a second-story ledge, he leaps up, gripping the edge in a swift cat leap and pulls himself inside ...

Few people can say they can master parkour, the art of surpassing obstacles by jumping over or bouncing off of them. It looks all very exciting but it’s very difficult. That’s why it’s ...

Saw the gap twice, came back. The third time, I directly ran and boom, I jumped it.” Traceur Akram Abdelmoumene hones his parkour skills through the city of Algiers [Fethi Sahraoui/Al Jazeera ...