In addition to not being afraid of risks, certain people may perceive risk differently from others. Shane Murphy, a sports psychologist and professor at Westen Connecticut State University, has worked with Olympians and other athletes. He says he struck by the way that redefine risk according to their skills, experience, and enviroment. He worked with a group climbing Everest without tion to oxygen, which to him was the riskiest thing anyone could do. But the climbers took every precaution to prepare themselves for this climb. As Murphy describesit, To them it was the next step in an activity that they've done for years. They weren't going out there to get hurt, Murphy said the perspective of extreme athletes is very different from our own. We look in that situation, we would be out of control, he said. But from the atnletes' perspective, they have a lot of control, and there are a lot of things that they do to minimize risk.