ABSTRACT
The original event to experience adventure was probably Homer’s Ulysses. Adventure education can also be traced back to the ancient Greeks, Plato and Aristotle, who emphasized the learning of virtues by being impelled into adventurous situations. Adventure sport as a kind of leisure or recreational sport allows one to exhaust emotional potentials through socially accepted actions to an extent that is almost impossible to match or even beat. Adventurous and high-risk sports activities have for quite some time been addressed in sport science from a pedagogical perspective and in relation to self-reports. Adventure is relevant in various spheres and behavioural settings and for different purposes: such as, expeditions, scaling Mount Everest, exploring the deep ocean or outer space, and, in outward-bound pedagogy, survival trainings and similar adventure events to explore the self and team spirit in extreme situations.
