Outdoor aerial adventures come make the most of the natural elements. Photo: courtesy of Sky Adventures Zip lines and rope courses are not what they used to be.

Around the same time, aerial photography pioneers elsewhere in the world were experimenting with other methods. In 1903, German engineer Alfred Maul demonstrated a gunpowder rocket that, ...

In 1858, Frenchman Gaspard Tournachon snapped the world’s first aerial photograph. Photography had only been around for about three decades, so getting a camera in the air was no simple task.