Extreme Ironing

The world truly has gone mad. A WSJ.com article (paid site only, sorry!) introduces us to "Ironman" Philip Shaw.

The 29-year-old British technology consultant is the founder of a small, thriving underground of "extreme ironing" enthusiasts. They iron their laundry while rock-climbing, sailing, skydiving, or pursuing other risky sports.

In the last six years, extreme-ironing clubs have sprung up from Chile to South Africa. There's been a world championship in Germany, an expedition to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and an ironing session under the frozen ice of a Wisconsin quarry. Extreme ironing is the subject of a forthcoming British book of photographs and a television documentary that first ran in December on Britain's Channel 4.