Three weeks ago, Malibu’s Johnny Strange delivered a message from the top of Mt. Everest, stating, “Stop Genocide.” But he carries another message for fellow teenagers: Pursue your dreams and meet challenges head-on. Strange, 17, after scaling the world’s tallest peak at 29,035 feet, flew from the Himalayas to Australia and on Monday (Tuesday in…
At the Teahouse just below Mount Everest’s base camp, Wendy Booker and Johnny Strange took respite from the cold and their boredom to play a game of hearts. It was early April and Booker, 55, who has multiple sclerosis, was attempting to climb the tallest mountain on each continent. Everest, the tallest in the world,…
Johnny Strange, a Malibu High School graduate, made a historic trip to top of the world this week. The 20-year-old parachuted onto the North Pole, making him among the youngest to reach the summit of Everest, the South Pole and the North Pole, known as “The Three Poles.” “It was freezing, but mostly I was…
Johnny Strange — who became famous for climbing the world’s 7 tallest summits by the age of 17 — has died in a wingsuiting accident in Europe … TMZ Sports has confirmed with a family member and multiple people close to him. Multiple sources connected to Strange tell us Johnny was in Switzerland — where…
MALIBU—On Thursday, October 1, Johnny Strange, 23, also known as Daredevil, crashed while filming a wingsuit proximity video in the Swiss Alps. Wingsuit base jumping is a sport where a person flies through the air while wearing a wingsuit; a type of suit that adds surface area to the human body with flaps of fabric…
On the first day of October the world lost some of its beauty when 23-year-old Johnny Strange died in a wingsuit accident. The young man had been climbing and jumping his entire life. He holds the world record as the youngest person to have ever climbed all Seven of the World’s Summits. I never met…