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...fear combine to give weekend warriors and professional athletes alike a sense of pushing out personal boundaries. According to American Sports Data Inc., a consulting firm, participation in so-called extreme sports is way up. Snowboarding has grown 113% in five years and now boasts nearly 5.5 million participants. Mountain biking, skateboarding, scuba diving, you name the adventure sport--the growth curves reveal a nation that loves to play with danger. Contrast that with activities like baseball, touch football and aerobics, all of which have been in steady decline throughout...
...More Americans than ever are injuring themselves while pushing their personal limits. In 1997 the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission reported that 48,000 Americans were admitted to hospital emergency rooms with skateboarding-related injuries. That's 33% more than the previous year. Snowboarding E.R. visits were up 31%; mountain climbing up 20%. By every statistical measure available, Americans are participating in and injuring themselves through adventure sports at an unprecedented rate...
...American Jewish Committee who also teaches at Cardozo Law School; William H. Kenety, a Department of Justice trial attorney; Katherine Kennedy, an environmental attorney with expertise in energy-related issues; Amy Schwartz, a New York district attorney; and Shavi F. Shrink, the founder and executive director of the Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center...
...other workers at Springfield's nuclear-power plant head up snow-covered Mount Useful in pairs, competing to be first to reach a cabin at the top. The boss cheats, the employees just want free sandwiches, and an avalanche sabotages the whole thing. In the real world, climbing a mountain or learning to handle a kayak with someone you've barely met or, even worse, someone you see at the office every day can be just as lame. Toss in the fear of tackling physically challenging tasks and the potentially corny kum-bay-ya-ness...
...around entertaining adults under false pretenses. To prepare, I ran up miles of hills carrying a 10-lb. volume of Shakespeare on my back and searched the Internet for information about adventure racing, a fast-growing sport in which small teams navigate over long, difficult courses by kayak or mountain bike, on foot and on horseback. I'm training with members of the Charles Schwab Adventure Racing Club, who believe the sport does wonders for corporate esprit and performance...