Yvon Chouinard’s dictionary
He writes in his memoir, Let My People Go Surfing, that adventure comes in different degrees of truth. “Real adventure,” he says, “is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive – and certainly not as the same person.”
I was thumbing through the ads in the back of Sea Kayaker magazine the other day, which consist mostly of come-ons for kayaking classes and tours in beautiful wild destinations, pretty pictures of happy people and the inevitable call to “adventure.”
I don’t think Yvon and those folks in the back of the magazine are talking about the same thing.