In early 2013, two men climbed into a zorbing ball at a Russian ski resort, trusting that someone, somewhere, had thought through the safety implications of rolling humans downhill inside a giant ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- It was supposed to be a thrilling ride down a ski slope inside a giant inflatable ball that is to be one of the symbols of next year's Winter Olympics; it ended in tragedy for the two ...

MOSCOW (CBS/AP) -- What was supposed to be a thrilling ride down a ski slope inside a giant inflatable ball ended in tragedy for the two Russian men inside. The transparent plastic ball—called a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An extreme sport went extremely wrong ...

MOSCOW — It was supposed to be a thrilling ride down a ski slope inside a giant inflatable ball that is to be one of the symbols of next year's Winter Olympics; it ended in tragedy for the two Russian ...

An ordinarily fun 'zorbing' adventure turned tragic when the gigantic inflatable ball carrying two men plunged off a mountain and crashed into a frozen lake in northern Russia ending the life of one ...

The zorb, essentially a giant, inflatable human hamster ball, is supposed to be a joyous, transparent symbol of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. But it seems it can also be an extremely ...

This story originally aired July 23, 2009. New Zealand, the country that brought you bungee-jumping, now has a new but equally insane idea for how to have fun. It's called zorb globe riding. It began ...

Video of two Russian men climbing into an inflatable ball and rolling down a Russian mountain on a ride that would take them over a cliff, into a ravine, on to a frozen lake and cause one of the men's ...