4. Hot air balloon ride
A hot air balloon is a lighter than air aircraft consisting of a bag,
called an envelope, which contains heated air. Suspended beneath
is a gondola or wicker basket (in some long-distance or high-
altitude balloons, a capsule), which carries passengers and (usually)
a source of heat, in most cases an open flame. The hot air balloon
is the first successful human-carrying flight technology. The first
hot-air balloon flown in the America was launched from the
Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia on January 9, 1793 by the French
aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard. The international hot air balloon
festival runs from the 27 January to the 4 February 2018 in the
picturesque pre-Alpine town in Switzerland. This year is the event’s
40th anniversary.
UK, Indonesia, Switzerland, Italy, Myanmar etc.
5. Water rafting
Rafting and white water rafting are recreational
outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to
navigate a river or other body of water. This is often
done on whitewater or different degrees of rough
water. Dealing with risk and the need for teamwork is
often a part of the experience.
Canada, Ecuador, Chile, Nepal, Australia etc.
6. Sky diving
Parachuting, or skydiving, is a method of transiting from a high point to
Earth with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the
descent with the use of a parachute. The first parachute jump in history
was made by André-Jacques Garnerin, the inventor of the parachute, on
22 October 1797. Garnerin tested his contraption by leaping from a
hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet (980 m) above Paris. widely considered an
extreme sport due to the risks involved. About 21 skydivers are
confirmed killed each year in the US, roughly one death for every
150,000 jumps (about 0.0007%).
Switzerland, Hawaii, Namibia, Nepal etc.
7. Bungee jumping
It’s an activity that involves jumping from a tall structure while connected
to a large elastic cord. The first modern bungee jumps were made on 1
April 1979 from the 250-foot (76 m) Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol,
by David Kirke, Geoff Tabin, and Simon Keeling,all members of the Oxford
University Dangerous Sports Club. The word "bungee" originates from
West Country dialect of English language, meaning "Anything thick and
squat", as defined by James Jennings in his book "Observations of Some of
the Dialects in The West of England" published 1825.
New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Switzerland, South Africa, Nepal, Austria etc.
8. Scuba diving
The first commercially practical scuba rebreather was
designed and built by the diving engineer Henry Fleuss in
1878, while working for Siebe Gorman in London. The
history of scuba diving is closely linked with the history of
scuba equipment. By the turn of the twentieth century.
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the
diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
(scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply,
to breathe underwater.
Indonesia, palau, Mexico, Fiji, Australia etc.
9. Fly boarding
A Fly board is a brand of hydro lighting device which
supplies propulsion to drive the Fly board into the air to
perform a sport known as hydro flying. A Fly board rider
stands on a board connected by a long hose to a watercraft.
Water is forced under pressure to a pair of boots with jet
nozzles underneath which provide thrust for the rider to fly
up to 15 m (49 ft) in the air or to dive headlong through the
water down to 2.5 m. The Fly board was invented in Autumn
2012 by a French water-craft rider, Franky Zapata. The
device was presented to the public for the first time at the
jet ski World Championship 2012 in China.
San Diego, Miami, Lake Las Vegas etc.
10. Paragliding
Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying
paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no
rigid primary structure. In 1952, Domina C. Jalbert advanced governable
gliding parachutes with multi-cells and controls for lateral glide. In 1954,
Walter Neumark predicted article a time when a glider pilot would be
"able to launch himself by running over the edge of a cliff or down a
slope whether on a rock-climbing holiday in ski-ing in the Alps.
France, Turkey, Italy, France etc.