Outdoor Sports
Outdoor sports, including mountaineering, rock climbing, cliff dropped, in the wild camping, a picnic, directional movement, streams, exploration and other projects, cycling are becoming more and more popular. Many of the outdoor leisure sports have expedition, great challenging and irritating. It’s a great chance to embrace nature and challenge you.
Outdoor sports history, earliest started to the 18th century Europe. According to historical records, a famous French scientist in order to explore the alpine plants resources, long for someone to help him overcome when seemed insurmountable dangers – boarded the Alps peak. 1760 May, he posted a notice at the foot of the Alps: “Who can surmount or provide line to board to the top Mont Blanc will get big-money reward.” Until 26 years later, in June 1786, a doctor takes off the notice; he passed two months of preparation, with a worker of Local Mountain, in the Aug. 6th, first landing of the Mont Blanc. This is the origin of outdoor sports.
Britain is the “hometown of outdoor sports”, and also an important birthplace of modern athletic sports. 18th century 60s, Industrial Revolution began, the steam engine and textile machines in the UK is widely used in production, promoting the rapid development of industrial production. Although at the time for the purpose of military-style military campaign is sweeping across Europe gymnastics, the British bourgeoisie in order to address the emerging production by large machinery, production, and accelerate the pace of urban population growth and a series of social problems, actively promote the development of the national outdoor sports and games, such as hunting, fishing, archery, travel, mountain climbing, rowing, sailing, swimming, water polo, skating, sprinting, long jump, high jump, pole vault, a stone’s throw, discus throw, badminton, cricket, ground ball, golf, hockey, rugby, soccer and so on. Outdoor sports, as an ideal means of Sports and leisure, is a more free and casual sport. With the UK’s overseas development, the impact of outdoor sports and cycling games quickly spread to the United States, France and other countries in the world.
June 21, 2011 