Contents	6
	Figures	8
	Contributors	10
	Acknowledgements	14
	1 Adventurous activity, prudent planners and risk	16
	2 The quest for excitement and the safe society	25
	3 Legislators and interpreters: An examination of changes in philosophical interpretations of ‘being a mountaineer’	40
	4 Philosophy outdoors: First person physical	58
	5 Adventure, climbing excellence and the practice of ‘bolting’	71
	6 Reading water: Risk, intuition, and insight	86
	7 Nature and risk in adventure sports	95
	8 Aesthetic and ethical issues concerning sport in wilder places	109
	9 Outline of a phenomenology of snowboarding	121
	10 The performative avant-garde and action sports: Vedic philosophy in a postmodern world	133
	11 Extreme sports and the ontology of experience	153
	12 Kant goes skydiving: Understanding the extreme by way of the sublime	164
	13 Can BASEjumping be morally defended?	183
	14 Walking the edge	201
	Index	213
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