The oxford English dictionary (brown 1993:31) defines adventure as a chance of danger or loss risk jeopardy a hazardous enterprise or performance clearly it has in the English language acquired a connotation of risk and uncertainty suggesting that insight seeking could replac risk to refer to adventure appears to be clear contrast to its historic meaning it seems more appropriate that both risk and insight seeking have to be present in varying degrees for an adventure to take place.
In accord to this line of thinking gaining insight as one motive for and a result of adventure has been pointed to in earlier writings Quinn(1990)notes that the human desire or drive to experience what is hidden and unknown initates adventure similarly dufrene states
“we are attracted by a deep forest or lake because it gives the impression that there is some truth to discover some secret to abduct from the heart of the object it is the eternal seduction of the hidden”