In a more recent study, Sacred Nature, Adrian Cooper (1998) explored how 150 travellers reconcile their spiritual faiths with the challenge of interpreting wild, natural environments. From tropical rainforest to frozen lands and deserts. He collected information for eleven years, and in a section called ‘Turning points’ he describes how wildlife adventure had a very significant therapeutic impact upon a woman who was diagnosed as HIV positive and, two years later, was living in Bristol in a derelict warehouse, drinking very heavily and sharing her life with four other homeless woman. She found a rain-sodden magazine blowing across the warehouse floor with a picture of a mother and baby elephant in Amboseli Park in Krnya. A week later she hitched a lift to London and bought a one-way ticket to Nairobi. In the airport in Africa she met a group of American youngsters about to go on a camping expedition, and was invited to join them: