Santa the adrenaline junkie

Why should the jolly fat man be limited to a sled?

Santa surfing
(Image credit: (François Duhamel/Sygma/Corbis))

Water skiing (Bettmann/CORBIS)

Hang gliding (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS)

Sail fishing (Bettmann/CORBIS)

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Mountain biking (Karl Weatherly/CORBIS)

Surfing (François Duhamel/Sygma/Corbis)

Motorcycling (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Sky surfing (AP Photo/Horst Reckmann/Skymax)

F3 racing (Phipps/Sutton Images/Corbis)

Diving (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.