Unforgettable Adventures
Would you risk dying just for the fun of it?
A thrill-seeker is a person who takes pleasure in activities with significant physical risk, including death. Thrill-seekers feel like they have superpowers for the brief time they are carrying out their dangerous activities. The thrill pays enormously. Many have had life-threatening incidents, but once they are healthy again, they run back to thrill-seeking.
Thrill-seekers are adrenaline junkies. In a thrill-seeking event, your adrenaline will shoot, and your heart rate increases. This increases oxygen flow through your mind for some time and a flood of mood-boosting chemicals. This is what motivates a thrill-seeker again and again.
In adventure, you will explore, travel, take part in extreme sport, mountain climbing and river rafting and more. Your quest for adventure and thrill is all around you. Only you know what tickles your nerves. The experience will create psychological arousal, anxiety, fear, and enjoyment but could also achieve a higher goal in the pursuit of knowledge and discovery.
A History Of Thrill Seekers
The United Kingdom is a haven for thrill-seekers. Did you know that in 2019 nearly 200, 195 to be exact, set a new world record by riding the famous Grand National rollercoaster completely naked? If you didn't, now you do. Brits spend a whopping £3.5 billion a year in thrill-seeking and adrenalin rushes.
Adventuring and thrill-seeking is a UK thing. Even in the royal habitat are likes of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bear Grylls, and Sir David Attenborough. Few other countries produce characters like this. The United Kingdom is leading in exploration, discovery, adventure, and thrill-seeking. For generations, the British have influenced the word in these enjoyable activities. They are attracted by risk.
One of the most startling stories of the Victorian age was that of Livingstone. David Livingstone was a Scottish explorer and a Christian missionary. He had a mythic figure during his era. He went to Africa to discover its mysteries at a time very little was known of the continent. Then he got lost. Henry Morton Stanley, a journalist, went searching for him. It took Morton a six years’ expedition to finally locate Livingstone deep in the African jungle. Must have been a thrill.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes tells us that lure of doing something first, discovering, and seeking thrill will always be there. Whether it is people crossing deserts, swimming through oceans, or sky diving without a parachute, they are things worth doing.
Short Stories
Short stories are enjoyable and can help the reader to identify different writing styles. It improves imagination scope and vocabulary. It additionally enhances your writing skills.
Are You A Spectacular
Storyteller?
Storyteller?
Now short storytelling is an art and even writing them takes a bit of practice to get to the core message and central focus, working within a tight framework. So, I thought I would invite you to share in my next big endeavour. This will take place in two parts so if you are a writer but enjoy curling up by the fire with a hot cupper and enjoy a nice story, I would love to invite you to become a Happy London Story Maker.
Well, what might this be I hear you say...Well, let me explain some more. We want to create a short story competition and make a beautiful creative hardback book of short stories with contemporary photographs. And to make sure every entry has been fairy read and rated, we need volunteer readers to pre-select and shortlist several stories for the judges to choose the finalists.
We would like to invite you to become a Happy London Story Maker (unless you want to wait a while and submit an entry into the competition). So here is the plan and what to do;
Each story will be up to 800 to 1000 words long. Good clean fiction. All you need to do to get involved is sign up and register to become a HappyLdn Story Maker.
Send an email to Clare marked ''I would like to become a HappyLDN Story Maker
to happylondon@gmx.co.uk
Looking forward to sharing the pleasures of reading with you!!
Well-known Thrill-seekers
Robin Knox-Johnston
Would you attempt a voyage round the world alone? Well, that is what Robin Knox-Johnston exactly did. And his thrill-seeking missions have earned him a knighthood. He is officially Sir William Knox-Johnston.
In 2007, at the incredible age of 67, Robin became the oldest yachtsman to complete around the world solo voyage. He also holds the record as being the first guy to perform a non-stop circumnavigation of the globe non-stop single-handedly.
Ann Daniels
Life at the two poles is not easy, to put it mildly. Not many have been there. Ann Daniels was the first woman to get to the South Pole and the North Pole.
Born and raised in Bradford, England, Ann Daniels first reached the North Pole in 1997. Like all thrill-seekers, she did not get enough of it and has been there at least six other times. Juggle this with raising triplets and an extra kid, and she is fantastic.
Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold likes ascending big walls. His photos doing his ventures will give you goosebumps. He prefers tall, long routes. To add to the thrill, he wants quick ascents. He is the only person to the El Capitan in the American Yosemite National Park.
He also did the fastest ascent of the Yosemite triple crown. Honnold prefers to live in cars and has written a memoir Alone on the Wall (2017). A biographical documentary done in 2018 and named Free Solo won an Academy Award and a BAFTA. He prefers to live in the car.
Sam Elias
Sam Elias has been a ski racer but is better known for his climbing. He has been at the summit of the Everest, he has won ice-climbing competitions and climbs just about anything.
Wide Illumination
by author
Tom Rubens
''Set in the mid-1960s, this second novel in the trilogy shows Richard
Lane continuing his studies in English Literature at university.
These studies become a springboard for a frank sharing of
ideas with a circle of other male students. Their conversations are partly to do with moral attitudes and with differences in social position.''
A University Student's Encounter
During his first summer vacation,
he visits Germany and meets a
female German student named
Helga, with whom he develops an
intimate understanding, enriched
by sexual pleasure.
Available on Kindle
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Sir Ranulph Fiennes was referred to as the world’s greatest living explorer by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1984. He has authored many books on his expeditions. He is the first person to visit both the North Pole and the South Pole.
This guy crossed Antarctica on foot. At 65, in 2009, he climbed the Everest up to the summit. His career as an author grew alongside his adventure and exploration career. He has authored 24 books, fiction, and non-fiction.
Benedict Colin Allen
If you want to take hazardous journeys through unfamiliar terrain, borrow a leaf from Benedict Colin Allen. The author of Faber Book of Exploration and ten other books, he is famous for his many TV series that have been aired by BBC. He recorded solo some of these TV shows. Benedict wrote his first book in 1985 and did not slow down since then.
Brian Milton
Most adventurers like to write their experiences down and share them with others. Brian Milton a 1937 Austin, 7 Ruby across the Sahara Desert, to meet his beloved spouse in 1968. He became the first person to go around the world in an ultralight aircraft. Brian Milton started his writing career as a journalist for the San Francisco Examiner in 1964. His drive through Sahara is captured in Alexa: The Life and Death of an Austin 7 Ruby(2009).
Karl Bushby
Karl Bushby is an English ex-paratrooper, walking adventurer and author. He is currently attempting to be the first person to walk an unbroken path around the world completely. His trek is known as the Goliath Expedition. What a fantastic achievement that would be.
Bushby started writing in 2005. He wrote a book about his walk entitled Giant Steps, first published in 2005. The latest edition includes events up to March 2006 and his Bering Strait crossing.
Calling Short Story Lovers!
We love to provide opportunities for talented podcasters with authentic content. We have an opportunity for podcasters with great content. All you have to do is read three of our short stories and submit your recording to our contact page through the link below:
We hope you enjoyed the adventure, please do let us know which story you have enjoyed the most.
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