The quest for excitement and the safe society / Gunnar Breivik -- Legislators and interpreters : an examination of changes in philosophical interpretations of being a mountaineer / Paul Beedie -- Philosophy outdoors : first person physical / John Michael Atherton -- Adventure, climbing excellence and the practice of bolting / Philip Ebert and Simon Robertson -- Reading water : risk, intuition, and insight / Douglas Anderson -- Nature and risk in adventure sports / Kevin Krein -- Aesthetic and ethical issues concerning sport in wilder places / Alan P. Dougherty -- Outline of a phenomenology of snowboarding / Sigmund Loland -- The performative avant-garde and action sports : vedic philosophy in a postmodern world / Robert E. Rinehart -- Extreme sports and the ontology of experience / Ivo Jirâasek -- Kant goes skydiving : understanding the extreme by way of the sublime / Jesâus Ilundâain-Agurruza -- Can basejumping be morally defended? / Gunnar Breivik -- Walking the edge / Verner M²ller.