The Commodification of the Wilderness Experience 

By Trina Schneider and Kelly Knapp

Wilderness Defined

Wilderness Recreation; A Historical Perspective

The Great Outdoors as a Commodity

The Tradgedy at Interlaken, Switzerland

Mount Everest as a Playground

Gear as a Substitute for Knowledge

-The Cell Phone

Why Extreme Adventuring?

"What values matter most to us? In an increasingly urbanized society, surronded by technological marvels in out everyday lives, why do we value the mountains? Are they a sanctuary where we preserve a special kind of experience to savor? Or are they merely a recreational gymnasium for our off-hours? Aren't they something more?

-Laura and Guy Waterman