SUICIDE MISSION
Riders in The World-Famous Suicide Race of Omak, in the US state of Washington, have 15 metres to get their horses up to speed before charging down a ridiculously steep hill – with a 62° slope – into a river, which they traverse, and then sprint for around 460 metres. It is hair-raising, lightning-quick and not without controversy. Animal rights groups deem the event not as suicide, but murder, and while it has a tangential connection to Native American endurance tests, the race was devised by white people in 1935 to promote a rodeo.
No doubt gravity does some of the work for these daredevil riders