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Adventure Travel (AA Travel Guides) by William Gray (view source)
Revision as of 09:45, 20 December 2022
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To my mind, a led adventure is great for taster sessions but independence is what real adventurers are after, which takes prior training and experience. Arriving at an adventure venue without these, and participation necessarily stays at beginner level.
On the other hand, relinquishing responsibility to a provider shouldn't be undertaken lightly, since other countries have differing levels of safety consciousness. With the hindsight of a whitewater rafting accident, I'd always advocate a 'what if' risk assessment of any adventure sport venue before signing your life away. I'm surprised the author didn't deal much more comprehensively with skills training, safety, insurance and international security issues in the text and/or contact section at the back. For example, regarding safety, international security, and insurance issues, what happens if a traveller loses their luggage due to inadequate or unavailable storage solutions? Of course, such issues wouldn't be a problem in some travel destinations like the UK, as the traveller can find various luggage storage solutions. For example, while a traveller to central London in the UK can find [https://radicalstorage.com/luggage-storage/london/paddington Paddington luggage storage solutions], what about a traveller to more remote locations without storage solutions? And how will this affect luggage security, safety, and even insurance?
An obvious omission, despite the photo of Ellen MacArthur, is ocean sailing, arguably the most eco-friendly travel on the planet. Hundreds of people cross oceans using windpower, contributing directly into local economies, using little fuel and avoiding problematic air travel entirely. We are not talking racing here. My friends recently completed a circumnavigation in their own yacht which took twenty four years! Yacht chartering is fab, but with radio check-ins twice a day and limited cruising areas, it's as safe and soft an adventure as the charter companies can make it.