Why will we want to jump off a cliff?

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 Dean Potter, a celebrated extreme sportsman and a fellow climber, Graham Hunt jumped off a seventy five hundred foot cliff in Yosemite park with the goal of Wing suit flying through the rocky cliffs before parachuting to safety. Both men crashed while trying to fly through an outcropping and were found dead many hours later. Base Jumping is an acronym for buildings, antennas, spans like bridges and earth cliffs and mountain tops.They're all places to leap from while wearing a wing suit, a parachute or both.

A minimum of 383 people have died from Base jumping thus far. Aren't we all programmed to survive? Why will we risk death for a thrill? Around 800 people have died climbing the mountains of Nepal, which incorporates Everest.Annually nearly twenty two people die from skydiving. And even scuba sees about 80-100 deaths annually. Skateboarding also has 40 deaths in annual alone.
 Psychologists believe we perform risky behaviors due to our fear response, and medical researchers believe it's to try  with the brain's reward systems. During a small study from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, researchers explored the psychological results of fear responses in extreme sports participants. Fear is a very important inborn response to perceived danger.


 Your body's top priority is to preserve itself and to motivate it to attain our goals. Except for some people, like extreme sports enthusiasts, overcoming fear may be a meaningful and constructive event in their lives. They, of course, still experience fear, but it isn't seen as a negative but rather a positive experience. Potter wrote specifically and poetically about his experiences with fear and the way overcoming that fear was transformative for him.Unfortunately, that's not easily translatable for a general population.


 Scientifically speaking, we will only examine how the chemicals in our brains surrounding fear last to affect our behaviour when jumping out of an airplane or free climbing up a cliff. An almond shaped set of neurons in our brain called the amygdala releases hormones which quicken the center,sharpens the senses and prepare your body to escape or fight to fear response during this fear response.

 Our brains reward center releases huge amounts of dopamine. Studies have shown dopamine,powerful reward chemical for our bodies is additionally connected to the recollection of terror. It's released once we eat, exercise or see our friends and family. It's reinforcing those healthy behaviors by making us feel good about doing those things. But it also helps us remember things we're petrified of. Massive dopamine release is related to drug use and addiction, which is how extreme athletes and enthusiasts are often related to junkies or addicts
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 Extreme athletes provoke this fear response in themselves, experiencing that fear of death and enjoying the natural high they get from the dopamine release that follows. The problem is that the brain can get accustomed these high levels of dopamine and thus more extreme events may should be performed to easily enjoy day to day life. This can be called sensation seeking behaviour language created to explain heavy use drug ATIC.

 A 2004 study compared ecstasy users to bungee jumpers and located similar sensation seeking brain chemistry. the rationale people still do these activities, other than them being fun and making them feel good, is once their brain gets acclimated to those higher levels of dopamine, it's difficult to wean it off like a fan. The brain craves more dopamine to feel the identical high. In the end, the danger and reward are real and folks can alter their brain chemistry to urge this natural high from things like base jumping.

But I'm not trying to condemn folks that search out these sensations. Sure, Dean Potter participated in dangerous behaviors, but he also knew the risks and inspired people everywhere the world to explore their planet firsthand, to urge off their couches and into their national parks and into their world.He wanted people to undertake their hand at things that they will not have otherwise.

 Extreme sports may also reach long distance races like marathons or ultra marathons .Some men are 100 and that they still runs races, so that they are  fit and block death. I heard a few man who just won't quit running.He's travelled the world, broken numerous world records, and was even awarded the Empire Medal by Queen Elizabeth the second. But what's even more remarkable about him is that he didn't start to run until he was eighty nine years old.

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