ABSTRACT
This chapter works in the border zone between tourism and mobilities studies, engaging performance-based theories to consider the case of lifestyle rock climbers. Because these individuals spend months to years to decades in the pursuit of rock climbing, they exemplify the precondition of privilege as well as the shortcomings of both tourism and mobilities literatures to capture the nuances of hypermobile lifestyles. Within the rock climbing community there exist a number of subcultural identities relating to style of climbing, regional preferences, and degree of dedication to the sport. The chapter considers the concept of home, a relatively stable idea used to define tourism, but one that needs rethinking as we approach and cross the boundaries between tourism, travel, and mobilities. It provides a larger research project which investigates lifestyle climber motivations and experiences, travel behavior, and community dynamics. The chapter works to rethink the concept of home in the context of long-term travel, lifestyle travel, and lifestyle mobilities.
