These mindblowing images are the proud winners and runner-ups of an adrenaline-charged photo contest.
Chosen from more than 36,000 submissions, the top 55 from the Red Bull Illume Awards were revealed at the Art Institute of Chicago this week, including the overall winners in each category.
Photographer Lorenz Holder was crowned the Overall Winner for his breathtaking shot of athlete Senad Grosic riding his BMX bike across a bridge in Germany, with the reflection in the water underneath creating the illusion of a near-perfect circle.
An incredible black-and-white photo of surfer Renan Faccini amid a huge swell in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, won first place in the Energy category, taken by Australian snapper Luke Shadbolt, while Norwegian photographer Vegard Aasen won the Mobile award with his mountaineering image taken in Hakuba, Japan.
Other finalists include the shot of a diver nose-to-nose with an enormous shark in Portugal, and several daredevil rock climbers dangling precariously off cliffs in South Africa and Australia.
Each of the winning images and top 55 submissions are now on display in illuminated lightboxes as part of the Red Bull Illume Exhibit Tour 2016, and will move around the world for the next two years.
This image taken in Gablenz, Germany, by Lorenz Holder of a BMX athlete was chosen as the Overall Winner of Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2016
Norwegian photographer Vegard Aasen won the Mobile award with this mountaineering image taken in Hakuba, Japan
Alexandre Voyer shot diver Marianne Aventurier face-to-face with an enormous shark at the Azores Islands in Portugal
Daniel Vojtêch from Czech Republic won the Sequence Athletes award with his shot of Flying Bulls pilots Miroslav Krejci, Jan Rudzinskyi, Stanislav Cejka and Jan Tvrdic in Jaromêř
South African snapper Micky Wiswedel won the Wings category with his shot of climber Jamie Smith mid-fall as he attempts a new route on Table Mountain, Cape Town
Denis Klero from Russia won the Close Up prize with his black-and-white shot of climber Rustam Gelmanov showing his chalk-covered hands in Fontainebleu, France
Italian photographer Ale Di Lullo scooped the New Creativity award with his shot of Aaron Chase riding his mountain bike over the windshield of a New York cab in Brooklyn
Lorenz Holder also won in the Playground category for a shot of BMX rider Senad Grosic on a rusted viewing platform in Senftenberg, Germany (left), while Australian Luke Shadbolt won the Energy Award for his shot of surfer Renan Faccini set against a huge swell in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (right)
Canadian Jody MacDonald won the Lifestyle award with her mesmerizing image of her brother Ken MacDonald sitting atop a train during their adventure through the Sahara Desert
Runner-up Tristan Shu's shot of Jean-Baptiste Chandelier paragliding in the majestic mountains of Lac du Pontet, France
Pilot Francois Le Vot captured performing some rather dizzying tricks by photographer Balazs Palfi in Budapest, Hungary
Vernon Deck captures snowboarder Iker Fernandez leaving a cloud of glittering snow behind him in St. Moritz, Switzerland
Seen from beneath the surface, surfer Beau Pilgrim rides a wave in Namotu Island, Fiji, taken by photographer Stuart Gibson
Jeremiah Watt artfully captures the strain of the face of rock climber Patrick Kingsbury at America's Indian Creek, Utah
Ken Etzel also caught rock climber Wiz Fineron finding himself in a tight spot on the side of a cliff in Grampians, Australia
Another colourful masterpiece by Lorenz Holder, who photographed skateboarder Conny Mirbach here in Riem, Germany
BMX rider Erik Orgo in Tallinn, Estonia, as seen through the eyes of a cat in this shot taken by photographer Jaanus Ree Red
Snowboarders Arthur Longo, Gjermund Braaten and Ludwig Biltoft amid an explosion of balloons in Kitzsteinhorn, Austria, taken by Markus Rohrbacher
Diver Guillaume Nery plunges into the inky dark depths of a cave in Tulum, Mexico, shot by photographer Klaus Thymann
A logic-defying aerial shot of biker Richard Gasperotti, taken by Milos Stafek in leafy Klasterec nad Ohri, Czech Republic
A cascade of spray follows athlete Mons Roisland in the icy waters of Folgefonna, Norway, taken by photographer Emil Sollie
Samo Vidic's snap (left) of Jonathan Paredes in Victoria Falls, Zambia, and (right) Dave Lehl's photo of Sage Kotsenburg in Vail Pass, Colorado, USA
Daring Andrew Pastura flies over a deep chasm in Hrabovo, Slovakia, in this monochrome image from photographer Jan Kasl
Biker Nicholi Rogatkin takes a major tumble from a rock face in the USA's Virgin, Utah, taken by photographer Dean Treml
Pictured (left) Philipp Schicker makes for a snow-embedded vehicle in Hoch-Ybrig, Switzerland, taken by Claudio Casanova, and (right) Lorenz Holder's shot of Max Horn in Murnauer Moos, Germany
Rahel Schelb scales a towering iceberg in Iceland, shot under the glowing Northern Lights by photographer Tim Kemple
In Platteklip Gorge, South Africa, photographer Kelvin Trautman captures Sabrina Chesterman as she makes a giant stride
A dreamy shot of resting athletes Mayan Smith Gobat and Ben Rueck in Piedra Riscada, Brazil, by snapper Frank Kretschmann
Skateboarder Cedric Romanens performs stunts in an unusual location in Laax, Switzerland, shot by Lorenz Holder
A surreal snap of water skier Mike Dowdy in Orlando, Florida, as seen through the viewfinder of Chris Garrison's camera
BMX biker Gasper Dolinar achieves a frankly amazing feat in Dolenja Vas, Slovenia, shot in black and white by Jan Pirnat
Kuba Konwent captures grinning parachuters Bartosz Staskiewicz, Sebastian Dratwa, Marta Molinska, Jan Kaczmarczyk, Sen Marcin and Agnieszka Rom hovering over Kazimierz Biskupi, Poland
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