Since I was a small boy I was dead set on a life of adventure. In those days the world was still a vast place, with large parts still undiscovered, and world travel was a lot more prestigious than it is today (but easier in some aspects). The ghost of colonialism and easily accessible science meant that you could appear almost anywhere on the globe and strike out on a new expedition almost on a whim.
Explorers advertised for help, agencies recruited for expeditions, and there was still the mystery and romance of not knowing where you might be in a week's time.
With advancing science, improved communications and electronic networking, are these days long dead?
2007-09-28 01:05:16 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Steve Fossett didn't think so.
It wasn't that long ago that Thor Heyerdahl set sail.
The International Space Station is a bastion of modern adventure.
And the thought at every place on earth has been traveled simply isn't true....
Go for it.
g-day!
2007-09-28 12:49:07 · answer #1 · answered by Kekionga 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are adventures to be had - You just know where to look for them OR you are not looking hard enough.
Think of all the MISSING treasures and other items waiting to be found. There are still areas of the world where people have not set foot.
And what is wrong with trying to do what has already been done? Michael Palin happily went round the world in 80 days in 1988 well after the original book was published. Last year a group of people re-enacted the Scott expedition.
As for modern science - well that can be used to ENHANCE adventure Just imagine the possibilites - You could be recording your video diary as you on the run quickly book a passage on a cargo ship via your lap top. As well as checking whats over the next ridge via google earth.
2007-09-28 07:33:43 · answer #2 · answered by David 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sign up for the military and go to Iraq. There's adventure there.
Or... sign up for the Peace Corps. There's adventure there too.
Heck, you can have an adventure going to a new city and wandering around.
If you're talking about adventure from a historical perspective, we've got lots of issues.
How do we overcome our warrior-dominator culture and learn to live in harmony and peace with ourselves and nature?
How can we stop overpopulation and the destruction of the earth by human colonization and growth?
What would it take to colonize Mars?
There will always be adventure as long as there's a human race. The thing is we don't have much time.
The struggle of our age is to survive ourselves. It won't be easy. We have to wake up and look at the world in a new way. We have start thinking about making a sustainable world for all life.
If we don't, we go the way of the dinosaurs.
2007-09-28 01:18:27 · answer #3 · answered by dgrhm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no - but the ones you want would cost you alot of money - there are adventure packages for vacations where you go in small group with a guide much like you are describing. The areas are unexployed - many - since mostly the nationals live there and only the few europeans of the past and recent have trodden there and visited - all over asia - africa and south america - the north of canada
2007-09-28 10:25:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
True adventure comes from within your own spirit. The 'age gone by' to which you elude was quite easy for adventurers in so much as they could latch on to someone else's adventure, you quote recruitment for expeditions etc. I believe that if adventure burns within you then you will find your own, because - as you are right in saying - those days are long gone.
2007-09-28 02:29:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
small boats+big oceans=adventure
There are still lots of places you can go and be the first human being to step there. Try the northern Labrador, no one goes there. A Nazi weather station went undiscovered for 40 years until a German went looking for it!
http://itotd.com/articles/501/weather-station-kurt/
2007-09-28 02:28:36 · answer #6 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to look really hard for adventure these days. You need to travel somewhere truly remote and away from all the tourist destinations and then the adventure can begin.
2007-09-28 01:12:34 · answer #7 · answered by LoveBeingAMum 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The adventure now is the journey toward a freer, less destructive state of being for humanity. The frontier is not physical but spiritual. and ethical.
It is as perilous an adventure, and one whose outcome appears to be far from certain.
2007-09-28 01:09:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Undersea exploration and spelunking are the only two still around now. Space exploration is almost pointless unless we actually start doing someting.
2007-09-28 05:55:33 · answer #9 · answered by 29 characters to work with...... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three quarters of the world is still largely unexplored...the sea bed.
Space might offer even more opportunities!
2007-09-28 01:11:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋