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ABSTRACT
This study is a phenomenological portraiture of an adventurer that explores the meanings of the adventure experience. Through interview and observation, I reveal four thematic meanings of the adventure experience for the research participant: solitude and camaraderie; escape; challenge; and living life. The implications of these findings for adventure education are discussed.
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Notes
1. Pseudonym.
2. Brymer and Gray (Citation2009), on the other hand, liken the relationship between the extreme sports athlete and the natural environment as akin to a ‘dance’. As they explain, athletes in their study ‘described their experiences as being in harmony with nature and suggested that the natural world provides a context for self-learning’ (p. 146).
3. Mortlock (Citation1978, Citation1984) changed the name of this stage across publications of this model.
4. The contribution of qualitative methodologies to the development of knowledge has been acknowledged in both sport and exercise science (see Gratton & Jones, Citation2010; Sparkes & Smith, Citation2014) as well as education (Eisner, Citation1998).
5. See West and Allin (Citation2010) for a more thorough exploration of the meanings of risk in this context.
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Benjamin C. Ingman
Benjamin C. Ingman is Senior Instructor and Co-Principal Investigator in the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz, USA. His research interests include arts-based and community-based research, curriculum studies and adventure education.