What do you call these outdoor sports?

[cftranslate]

Walking through difficult mountain paths -- Spanish 'senderismo'
Jumping off bridges tied to a rope - Spanish 'puenting'
(is it bungee jumping? - what's the correct spelling?)

Descending steep ravines - Spanish 'descenso de barrancos'

Thanks

[JuanTwoThree]

Trekking ?

Yes, bungee-jumping. At my school we called an eraser a bunjy, which must be the same word.


Canyoning or canyoneering.

[Lorikeet]

Descending steep ravines - Spanish 'descenso de barrancos'

Thanks

If you use a rope: rappelling

"A descent of a vertical surface, as a cliff or wall, by sliding down a belayed rope that is passed under one thigh and over the opposite shoulder or through a device that provides friction, typically while facing the surface and performing a series of short backward leaps to control the descent." (Dictionary.com)

[lolwhites]

How is rappelling different from abseiling, or are they just two words for one thing?

[Lorikeet]

How is rappelling different from abseiling, or are they just two words for one thing?

I never heard of abseiling before.

I looked it up in the dictionary, and it says it comes from German and means "to rappel"

[JuanTwoThree]

Yes but I think cftranslate and I are talking about getting wet: following the course of the river in the bottom of the gorge. Climbing, swimming, wading, jumping down waterfalls, rappelling/abseiling where necessary.

Like caving with no roof.

[Sally Olsen]

"Being, as you might imagine, of an advanced age and sedentary temperament, even reading about this activity is too stressful for me. It is one of a number of adventure sports like white-water rafting and bungee jumping which have grown up over the past decade or so. Gorge-walking is one of the newest, only beginning, I am told, two or three years ago. It is a smaller-scale version of the longer-established canyoning, but which is better suited to the gentler scenery of British mountains, at first mainly in Wales but now also in Scotland. When you gorge walk you follow a stream or small river, not just its general course, but the actual flow of the water. This is fine when the stream is just a foot or so deep, provided that you can keep your footing on slippery rocks, but you are often forced to swim through rough water as the depth increases or negotiate rapids. The real fun starts when you encounter a waterfall: there’s no question of going round, you just have to jump. It’s guaranteed to leave you tired, wet, cold and probably rather scared. Gorge-walking is regarded as a dangerous sport, requiring qualified guides and instructors."
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[Sally Olsen]

Just saw something on TV that showed the young people in Australia hiking down the rivers, swimming and falling over waterfalls. They called it something different and now I have forgotten, rats.

[lolwhites]

White water rafting?