Extreme landscapes of leisure: not a hap-hazardous sport

In recent years, there has been an increased engagement throughout the social sciences with the study of extreme places and practices.

Dangerous games and adventure tours have shifted from being marginal, exotic or mad to being more than merely acceptable.

They are now exemplary, mainstream even: there are a variety of new types, increasing numbers of people are doing them and they are being appropriated and have infiltrated more and more contexts.