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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twenty-one people were treated for burns after walking across a bed of hot coals at an inspirational event hosted by motivational speaker Tony Robbins in San Jose, Calif., last week. About 6,000 ...

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 ...

Here we explain what it is, how to do it safely, and where it is still practised FIREWALKING involves walking barefoot across hot coals – but how does it work? Here we explain what it is, how to do it ...

This past weekend I got invited to a barbecue with a little twist: It wasn’t chicken wings we were roasting on the coals — it was our own precious tootsies. It’s called firewalking, explained my ...