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Delivering Adventure

Understanding Risk & Adventure with Grant Statham

26 Nov 2022

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Risk is an essential part of any adventure experience, but what is risk and what does it mean to manage it? In this episode, ACMG / IFMGA Mountain guide Grant Statham joins Chris and Jordy to explore the topic of managing risk. Grant currently works for Parks Canada as a visitor safety specialist doing mountain. Rescue and avalanche forecasting. He also works as a risk consultant, and as a mountain guide.Key TakeawaysA risk is a chance: When we take risks, we have a chance of losing something, but we also have a chance of gaining something. The uncertainty of not knowing which will happen is the risk.Not taking a risk, comes with risk: It is impossible to live a life without risk. Not taking risks comes with a danger of missing out.You can’t have adventure without taking risks: Challenge, adversity and risk taking are essential components of any adventure experience.Have a process that helps guide you in your risk taking: This can be a decision-making tool, framework, philosophy or a list. The process that we use to make decisions will increase your chances of having a positive outcome.Reserve your decision until you have as much information as possible: Waiting until you have to make a decision keeps your options open. This means that if new information becomes available, you haven’t committed yourself to a course of action that may be hard to reverse.Guest Links & ResourcesInstagram: @stathamgrantTed talk on Risk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGZu5Lzgv1AThinking in Risk: https://thepowdercloud.com/learn/avalanche-education/thinking-in-risk/Avalanche Canada Ice Climbing Avalanche Atlas: https://www.avalanche.ca/resources/ice-climbing/atlasGordon Graham: VideoFollow or SubscribeDon’t forget to follow and share the show!Share & Social Linkshttps://linktr.ee/deliveringadventure

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