Swimming
with sharks, free-falling from the Grand Canyon, skinny dipping in Phuket, climbing
via ferrata in Borneo, cycling across Siberia… the latest list of adventure
travel goes on. Businessmen, world’s top CEO’s, and even meek housewives are
donning the new mantle – that of the adventure-seeker. Gone are the days when a
lone traveller across the Atacama Desert won records for his daring. Fed up of
work tensions and responsibilities, people are out seeking a new high from the
independence of thrilling escapades into the unexplored.
The yearning
to travel and explore is there in each one of us. It’s just that only 10% of us
willingly travel to locations outside our comfort zone. Visiting your friends
across the state no longer accounts as travel. The new generation – and even
the old – is ready to do the dare. Check out Briton Dan Parr’s experience:
Full-time director of an
international sports marketing company and part-time ultramarathon runner, Parr
has raced 250 kilometres over seven days in both the Sahara and Gobi deserts - and
won.
On these trips he had to carry
his own food, water and equipment.
“I loved the feeling of
isolation, being completely out in the desert, completely dependent on
yourself,” says Parr.
“I have a wife and three kids, I
run an office. There are a lot of things weighing on our minds in day-to-day
life. Things become simple in the desert: you need to get from A to B in as
quick a time as possible, in the best shape.
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