There is something terribly exhilarating to stepping off of perfectly good ground into a burning furnace of uneven volcanic stones, made red-hot by tons of blazing timber underneath. As I stood at the ...

Let's talk about firewalking. The doctors at the Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, have reported that on a really hot day when the air temperature reaches 40°C, the sun-soaked asphalt of ...

Vilavilairevo, Fijian for "jumping into the oven," is the practice of firewalking. And it's not just the stroll across fire that's amazing; rather, it's the walking on fire without getting burned that ...

When I recently noticed someone new following me on Twitter—a rep from a United Kingdom firewalking company—I laughed out loud. Cliched scenes of firewalking from the movies raced through my mind but ...

Last Thursday, close to two dozen participants at a motivational seminar hosted by Tony Robbins suffered burns on their feet, while attempting to tromp across lanes of red-hot coals. So what did these ...

After 21 people in San Jose, Calif., burned themselves walking on hot coals during an event hosted by motivational speaker Tony Robbins on July 19, Slate asked Dana Professor of Anthropology Loring ...

IT is supposed to conquer your fears and realise your dreams but for most, walking barefoot over a bed of red-hot coals would be considered madness. Yet people are queuing up to stroll over ...

Last time I talked about firewalking, and how amazing it appears. After all, walking with your bare feet on a hot road at 44°C for 35 seconds can give you second-degree burns. So how do people walk on ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I had promised myself, after attending a clowning course in 2004, that I would never do anything in the name of ...