Adventurer" and
"Adventures" redirect here. For other uses, see Adventure (disambiguation), Adventurer (disambiguation), and Adventures (disambiguation).
Fridtjof Nansen reached a record latitude of 86°14′
during his North Pole expedition of 1893–96.
An adventure is an exciting or unusual experience.
It may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome.[1] Adventures may be activities with some potential for
physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports.
The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with
physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture, or other
major life undertakings.
The word adventuress can mean a female who enjoys or
partakes in adventures, but (particularly in older literature) it can also have
the negative connotation of one who schemes for material advancement by the use
her sexuality; a gold digger[2] As an instance of the latter the Oxford
English Dictionary cites
"Our Adventuress had the pickings of a few Feathers from an old Gentleman
who fell in Love with her".
Adventurous experiences create psychological arousal, which can be interpreted as negative (e.g. fear)
or positive (e.g. flow). For some people, adventure becomes a
major pursuit in and of itself. According to adventurer André Malraux, in his La
Condition Humaine (1933),
"If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?".[full citation needed] Similarly, Helen Keller stated
that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
Outdoor
adventurous activities are typically undertaken for the purposes of recreation or excitement: examples are adventure racing and adventure tourism. Adventurous activities can
also lead to gains in knowledge, such as those undertaken by explorers and
pioneers – the British adventurer Jason Lewis,
for example, uses adventures to draw global sustainability lessons
from living within finite environmental constraints on expeditions to share
with schoolchildren. Adventure education intentionally uses challenging
experiences for learning.
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