Scottish stunt cyclist Danny MacAskill is up for one of the world’s top awards for sportspeople.
The Skye man has been shortlisted for the Action Sportsperson of the Year Category of the Laureus World Sports Awards 2015.
Usain Bolt, Novak Djokovic and Sebastian Vettel have won Laureus awards in recent years and it is the famous video of MacAskill’s death-defying ride on Skye’s famous mountain range that got him nominated.
The original film of The Ridge has now passed more than 30 million views.
Mr Macaskill’s trickery on his bike has taken him around the world but last year he returned to Skye, where he rode The Ridge in the treacherous Cuillin Range, including the Inaccessible Pinnacle.
Mr MacAskill, 29, who was also nominated in 2010, is on the six-strong shortlist for the award with freefall record holder Alan Eustace, world champion surfers Stephanie Gilmore and Gabriel Medina, skateboard sensation Nyjah Huston and Olympic snowboard champion Sage Kotsenburg.
The Skye rider said: “It’s pretty awesome, the second time I’m nominated. Last year was a good year. It’s cool to have it recognised. I’m up against some pretty incredible athletes. To be honest, it’s quite surreal for me because I come from a non-competitive background, like [free-faller] Alan Eustace. But to be in a room with all those other athletes, it’s very, very cool.”
The winners, as voted by the Laureus World Sports Academy, the ultimate sports jury, made up of 50 of the greatest sportsmen and sportswomen of all time, will be unveiled at a globally televised awards ceremony staged at the Shanghai Grand Theatre on April 15.