‘You can never cross the same river twice’: climbers’ embodied quests for ‘original adventure’ in southern Thailand

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‘You can never cross the same river twice’: climbers’ embodied quests for ‘original adventure’ in southern Thailand

This article presents ethnographic research into individual narratives of adventure in a small, undeveloped bay called Ton Sai in southern Thailand’s Krabi Province. Ton Sai is extremely popular with Western rock climbers and increasingly with other adventure seekers and backpackers questing for ‘au...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bott, Esther
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage 2015
Subjects:	adventure; climbing tourism; distinction; subjectivity; the ‘primitive’
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32761/

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