Life on the edge
Take one of these daredevil trips to find out whether your relationship will stay the course
Ian Fleming, creator of the world's most famous daredevil, James Bond, wrote: "You only live twice. Once when you are born, and once when you look death in the face."
The adventure trips below may not bring you directly into the face of death, but they are death-defying enough to revive a stale marriage, bond an awkward honeymoon couple or prove once and for all that your girlfriend has what it takes to go the extra mile with you.
Sure, it's easy to talk your best male friend into climbing an erupting volcano or cage diving with great white sharks - but if the woman in your life agrees to it, and does it with a smile on her face, you had better treat her right for the rest of your lives and never let her go. She's truly a keeper.
If you are a couple who feel alive only when adrenalin is pumping through your veins, try one of these adventures of a lifetime for a his-and-hers holiday that will elevate your relationship to an entirely new level:
The setting: Nowadays, numerous spots around the globe - from the Swiss Alps to the Chilean Andes - offer helicopter tours whisking you up to remote mountain slopes for the ultimate ski escapade. But why not start where it all began? Canadian Mountain Holidays (www.canadianmountainholidays.com +403-762-7100) conducted the world's very first heli-skiing trips in 1965 in the Bugaboo Mountains, near the border of British Columbia and Alberta. The dramatic Bugaboos are a collection of rock spires jutting into the sky like granite knives over 3,000 metres high. "Bugaboo" is gold prospector slang for "dead-end", which only makes them more attractive to diehard thrill seekers.
