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Adventure's Greatest Winners And Losers

2008-10-13

Adventure's Greatest Winners And Losers

08:57:14 pm, by Pablo Edronkin, 285 words
Categories: HOBBIES AND CRAFTS, ENTERTAINMENT, ADVENTURES, EXPLORATION AND EXPEDITIONS, FOLKLORE, NORMS AND CUSTOMS, Some Jokes, History, Books, Novels and Tales, Music, Shows, Concerts and Public Displays, OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AND WILDERNESS, Nature-Related Lifestyles, Strange and Bizarre

Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose... but sometimes you win or lose in a truly scary way.

Playing Bach after dinner in a camp; we also tell stories.

Adventure is not just rafting or trekking; there are many activities - whether desired or not - that constitute adventure. Becoming an adventurer doesn't necessarily just encompass extreme sports or at least, those of the highest popularity among tourists. Explorers, military leaders, social workers, NGO volunteers, professional gamblers, mercenaries, treasure hunters, caravan merchants and field correspondents are also adventurers, in their own ways.

And sometimes these adventurers get what they want... or not, and sometimes they get what they have to get, whether they wanted to get it or not, in an unquestionable, irrevocable way, as if destiny were imposing something unto them. These are the greatest winners and losers of adventure's history, for adventure, as a part of history also has its own history as an activity that deserves to be told too.

Over time we have collected and prepared literally hundreds of short comments and stories related to these ueberwinners and ueberlosers among the fellowship of adventurers. These are the stories that we tell as we have dinner around a campfire, while we work in our labyrinth, or while taking a rest and having a cup of mate. We hope you enjoy reading them and learn what to do, but more importantly, what not to do:

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