CanYonIng

If this picture doesn’t make you quiver with fear, then chucking yourself down a raging mountain stream could be right up your street.

If you like the idea of leaping off a cliff into a mountain plunge pool, slipping down natural rock slides and flying along rapids in nowt but a wetsuit, then canyoning is for you. This is more technical than ghyll scrambling and unless you’re already equipped with kit and know-how, you’ll need a guide. Journeys typically descend a mountain stream, following the water as closely as possible. Which can mean swimming, wading, high and low level traversing, scrambling, abseils and jumps into deep water. Canyoning is more adrenaline fuelled than ghyll-scrambling, where you can take your own sweet time, but an absolute riot on a hot day.