New Channel 4 digital original series Adrenaline Addicts explores the UK’s most extreme sportsWith George KingOFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY Channel 4 In 2019, 21-year-old urban free climber George King-Thompson made international headlines when he climbed The Shard without ropes. Now, in this new short-form digital series, George is travelling across the country to experience the UK’s extreme adventure scene; meeting other people who, like him, choose to undertake high adrenaline, potentially dangerous activities. Featuring extraordinary footage of BASE Jumping, Bare Knuckle Boxing and Cliff Jumping, George takes us inside these fascinating and often controversial worlds and as he meets other ‘adrenaline addicts’, and seeks to understand their attitude to risk-taking, as well as his own. The activities in these films can only be carried out by highly trained experts. Do not attempt to recreate them. EPISODES EPISODE 1 Watch Episode 1 BELOW EPISODE 2 EPISODE 3 In this episode, George meets a group of Cliff Jumpers, who spend their downtime jumping off buildings, bridges and cliffs into the water below – performing complicated acrobatic moves on the way down. The media commonly refer to the activity as ‘tombstoning’, but the Cliff Jumping community don’t like to use that word. They see themselves as practiced and experienced extreme athletes. George, who’s more used to climbing up structures, than throwing himself off them, meets 28 year-old Chris Murphy from Liverpool, who spends the working week as a fibreglass technician, but when the weekend comes he can’t wait to meet up with his fellow Cliff Jumpers in search of the thrill of a jump. George joins Chris and his fellow jumpers as they undertake their next jump in and finds out the injuries they have suffered, what the risks are and why they choose to take them. These short films will be available on Channel 4’s YouTube and Facebook accounts. Parable, the production company behind Adrenaline Addicts also produced Channel 4’s short-form series, The Boy Who Climbed The Shard, which told the story of George’s climb up The Shard and was a huge success on social platforms, reaching over 10 million views. Ends
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June 30, 2021 4:47am ET by Channel 4 |