From the towers of the Titanic to space exploration: extreme tourism is on the rise

The shipment of $250,000 for the tourist who disappeared this week on his way to the shipwreck on the high seas of the transatlantic titanic this is just one example of extreme tourism becoming more common for those who can afford it.

From the highest peaks on Earth to sub-orbital space, here are some of the other feats that can be attempted:

A three-way competition between billionaire businessmen Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson It stimulated the development of a nascent industry of astrotourism.

Galactic Pristine Backgrounds of Branson said last week that its first commercial spaceflight, called “Galactic 01,” would launch between June 27 and June 30. who paid between $250,000 and $400,000 for their tickets.

Since June 2021, when the first seat was sold for $28 million, Bezos’ space tourism business, blue origin offered 10-minute flights at an altitude of approximately 106 km, where passengers experience a few moments of weightlessness before descending back to Earth.

A Japanese billionaire has already bought all the seats on the maiden voyage of Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket, which intends to spend three days circling the moon and approaching within 200 kilometers of the lunar surface . Originally scheduled for 2023, the flight was delayed by failed vehicle tests.

Back on Earth, meanwhile, wealthy tourists who don’t want to take strenuous treks through some of the planet’s toughest terrain can fly over or book private helicopters instead.

Before aiming for space, Branson was part of an elite group of extreme hot air balloon travelers, becoming the first to cross the Pacific Ocean in a balloon in 1991. Other distance records have been set by other wealthy people. , height and duration over the last decades.

Heli-skiing services have been launched in the snow-capped Himalayan mountains of Indian Kashmir, between India and Pakistan, during lulls in violence between Muslim separatists and the New Delhi government.

Mount Roraima, a mystical flat-topped mountain on the border between Venezuela and Brazil that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel ‘The Lost World’ and previously only accessible to native Pemón, attracts now thousands of hikers each year, and some visitors who reach the summit by helicopter.