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Extreme tourism: ‘If it was safe, that’s not an adventure’

By Tom Robbins, Simon Usborne, Oliver Barnes
Financial Times·
13 mins to read
Extreme tourism: ‘If it was safe, that’s not an adventure’
Extreme tourism: ‘If it was safe, that’s not an adventure’

Why do people pay small fortunes to risk their lives?

Tomaž Rotar knows a thing or two about life and death in extreme environments. In February 2021, the Slovenian oral surgeon was sitting inside a cramped tent 7,300m up K2, the world’s second highest mountain. More than 20 climbers had

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