I sat down to watch this Channel 4 show with some bias in that I simply don’t get this whole ‘adrenalin junkie’ thing. I don’t understand, for instance, why someone would hurl themselves out of a perfectly good plane just for the fun of it.

I similarly don’t understand – and find it a tremendously selfish act – that someone would want to climb Everest, risking their own lives and those of any rescuers who may be needed to save their obsessive butts…

My question is always, “What’s the point?” I know the multitude of answers to that question; it’s proving I can do it, it’s defying nature, it’s the thrill of it… but again, to what end? Read more & comment »