Adventure & Extreme Sports

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Fluid and Fuel for Marathon Running (Oct 07)
Nutrition for an Ultra Marathon event (Oct 07)
List of Marathons and Utra-Marathons from around the world (Feb 07)
Adventure & Extreme Online Store (Jan 07)
Details about some Ultra-Endurance events from around the world (Nov 06)

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Did you Know?

The Mt Everest Marathon, held in Nepal is the highest marathon in the world

Adventure Sports have been best defined as 'Outdoor Sports or Activities in which the participant competes in a natural environment, more against themselves than against others'. Although the term is sometimes used interchangeably, Extreme Sports can be considered a sub-category of Adventure Sports, as well as the terms 'Action Sport' and 'Adventurous Sport' also being used.

An extreme sport is any sport featuring speed, height, danger, a high level of physical exertion, highly specialized gear, or spectacular stunts. Another characteristic of activities such extreme sports is that they tend to be individual rather than team sports. Extreme sports can include both competitive and non-competitive activities.

Some of the sports listed here as Adventure Sports would probably not be considered as 'true' extreme sports. True Extreme Sports are more likely defined as a leisure or recreation activity where the most likely outcome of a mismanaged accident or mistake was death. Extreme sports are often associated with young adults wishing to push themselves to the limits of their physical ability and fear, in turn pushing the boundaries of a particular sport.

List of Sports

The following is a large list of sports that some people consider to be classified as Adventure or Extreme Sports. You may or may not agree with what is here, or you may want to suggest one that is not.

Adventure Sports with more information

BASE jumping - The acronym BASE stands for building, antennae, span, and earth - some of the things BASE jumpers launch themselves from. BASE jumping is considered very dangerous and is often done without permission. This article is a description of the sport.
Endurance events - details about some events held around the world, and some stories from participants too.
Orienteering and the related team sport of Rogaining - the thinking person's sports, requiring both navigation skills and endurance.

More Adventure or Extreme Sports

Airsoft
Backpacking
Ballooning
Bicycling
Bodyboarding
Bossaball
Bouldering
Buildering
Bungee Jumping
Canoeing and Kayaking
Canyoning
Caving/Spelunking, Cave diving
Cycling - Mountain Biking, BMX freestyle
Dog sledding
Extreme Ironing
Extreme skiing
Flowboard
Four Wheel Driving
Freebording
Free-diving
Gliding
Hang gliding
Hiking, Hill Walking, Trekking
Horseback Riding
Hot air ballooning
Hunting

Kayaking, Canoeing (& sea)
Kite Landboarding
Kite-surfing
Kitesurfing/Kiteboarding
Kneeboarding
Motorsports - Motorcycling, Drag racing, Freestyle Motocross
Mountain boarding
Mountaineering / Mountain Climbing, Ice climbing
Paintball
Parachuting / skydiving
Paramotoring
Parasailing, Paragliding
Parkour
Poweriser
Rafting
Rappelling
Rock-climbing, Climbing Walls, Abseiling
Roller derby
Sailing and Windsurfing
Scuba Diving and Snorkelling
Skateboarding
Skiboarding
Skiing, Barefoot skiing

Skimboarding
Skysurfing
Slamball
Snakeboarding
Snow shoeing
Snowboarding
Snowmobiling
Snowskating
Soaring
Spearfishing
Street luge
Stunt pogo
Surfing
Tricking
Unicycling
Wakeboarding
Water skiing
White water rafting
Whitewater kayaking
Windsports
Windsurfing
Zorbing

More to Come

what to pack
hiking food - food to take while hiking or on the run, and tips for preparing food on the trail.
taking your bike - comparison of the different ways to transport your bike
hiking tracks in Australia
hiking adventure stories

List of all sports