Harrowing Holidays
November, 1980
The Promoters most commonly call it adventure travel, though saner souls point out that it more often means a jaunt on which you can get meaning fully maimed. There are cold-weather choices such as helicopter skiing (where schussers have been buried in an avalanche or killed when one of the copters fell out of the sky) or such tropical trips as the search for the giant leech in Surinam (where the perils include poisonous snakes, amoebic dysentery, fire ants, killer bees, piranha, malaria, vampir...
