This essay sheds light on what is extreme tourism, demystifies the different types of extreme tourism activities, and reveals the problems with engaging in extreme tourism. Extreme tourism encompasses the act of partaking in extreme tourism activities. Extreme tourism activities are perilous tourism activities to partake in and often transpire in remote environments. People should never partake in extreme tourism activities since doing so can imperil them. Partaking in extreme tourism activities is grossly unwise in all facets. In spite of its perils, extreme tourism has surged in popularity amid the 21st century as of March of 2024 since engaging in extreme tourism allows people to be able to partake in more exhilarating tourism activities during their vacation periods than they otherwise would have if they forgone to do so. Certain people are enticed to engage in extreme tourism since partaking in thrilling tourism activities can potentially induce a pleasurable dopamine-release sensation in the brain which people voraciously crave to experience. Certain people are enticed to engage in extreme tourism also because it allows them to have far more novel vacation experiences during their vacation periods than they otherwise would have if they forgone to do so. Engaging in standard vacation experiences amid vacation periods is far less stimulating relative to engaging in extreme tourism experiences during vacation periods. Partaking in extreme tourism activities is a pursuit that only affluent people can only afford to be pursuant of since it can be eminently expensive to engage in extreme tourism. Engaging in extreme tourism cannot only deplete a substantial amount of a person's fiat currency, but can also drain a sizeable amount of a person's time. In addition to requiring a person to have a substantial amount of fiat currency and sizeable amount of time to be able to engage in extreme tourism, a person also often needs to have a bevy of specialized equipment items to be able to engage in extreme tourism. The specialized equipment items that are needed be able to engage in extreme tourism can vary from extreme tourism activity to extreme tourism activity. Partaking in extreme tourism activities can render a person more prone to succumbing to an unnatural death since the vessel is not designed to handle experiencing the brunt of severe injuries to the organs which can potentially be induced from partaking in perilous tourism activities. Once the organs fail to function, the vessel can no longer sustain itself which thereby causes a person to become deprived of his life. Once an organ shuts down, it often causes a cascade effect and lamentably subsequently leads to other organs shutting down in the vessel. Even though mitigatory measures can be taken in advance to mitigate against the risk of succumbing to an unnatural death while partaking in perilous tourism activities, partaking in perilous tourism activities is a needless risk that renders a person more vulnerable to abruptly succumbing to an unnatural death. It can be cumbersome to engage in extreme tourism. If a person opts to partake in extreme tourism activities, then he will not only be traveling to distant locations to do so, but will also be prone to experiencing the adverse weather conditions at the distant locations. If a person opts to partake in extreme tourism activities, then he may also be engaging in moderate-intensity activities in certain contexts in which the extreme tourism activities are able to double as moderate-intensity activities. Engaging in extreme tourism experiences is a stark contrast to indulging in most standard vacation experiences since extreme tourism experiences are perilous participatory experiences which can even double as moderate-intensity experiences in certain contexts, whereas most standard vacations experiences often consist of passive experiences and low-intensity experiences. Engaging in extreme tourism is unequivocally not for the faint of heart. There are a multitude of disparate types of extreme tourism activities. The pursuit of extreme tourism experiences is a pursuit that appeals to people who have eclectic interests in the sphere of vacation experiences. The level of intensity can vary extreme tourism activity to extreme tourism activity. The perils can also vary from extreme tourism activity to extreme tourism activity. Some of the exorbitant amount of extreme tourism activities encompass going mountaineering, going abseiling, going cave diving, going ice diving, going paragliding, going skydiving, going snorkeling, going white water rafting, going mountain biking, going on a sightseeing aircraft, going on a sightseeing spacecraft, and going on a sightseeing submersible. Going mountaineering entails ascending mountains. When people go mountaineering they often aim to reach the summit of a mountain. It can be a brobdingnagian challenge for a person to reach the summit of a mountain.
