It's often claimed that being an air traffic controller is the most stressful job in the world, but I reckon a day directing planes would be a walk in the park compared to the job of navigating a ...

Smiling and relaxed, Dutch farmer Jacob de Groot grips a pole and walks to the water's edge -- chasing a thrill he first felt aged 10, vaulting across a canal. Every summer, Dutch provinces from ...

KOCKENGEN, Netherlands (AP) — A split second of flight, then a landing on the sand — or a splashdown in a canal. That's the thrill of the Dutch sport of “fierljeppen” — far leaping — which sees ...

POLSBROEKERDAM, The Netherlands (Reuters) — Contestants from all over the Netherlands gathered in the central village of Polsbroekerdam on Saturday for the yearly national ‘fierljeppen’ or canal ...

In a corner of the Rijksmuseum hangs a seventeenth-century cityscape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Berckheyde, “View of the Golden Bend in the Herengracht,” which depicts the construction of ...

KOCKENGEN, Netherlands (AP) — A split second of flight, then a landing on the sand — or a splashdown in a canal. That’s the thrill of the Dutch sport of “fierljeppen” — far leaping — which sees ...