Hellooo. I'm new, and this forum has so many categories I wasn't sure which one this would fit into, if any at all...
Does anyone have any views on this new "urban explorers" craze? Apparently it's all the rage. Don't suppose anyone on here is into this stuff? I'd never heard of it until Monday night, when our local paper (the Evening Gazette) dedicated three and a half pages --
including its front page and a condemnatory editorial -- to these "wreckless" thrill-seekers. It's almost like a moral panic, the way some of the press are treating it.
As I've written in the blog entry linked, I'm far too much of a coward to be a dare-devil adventurer but I find the idea quite romantic. I've always thought there was something eerie, sad and fascinating about derelict industry and abandoned buildings. There's lots of it on Teesside (see below). The photographs taken by the urban explorers are stunning and, I think, can also be seen as a form of social commentary on industrial decline etc. (I suppose if the authorities object so much to people sneaking around these 21st century ruins, shouldn't they actually be renovating or building in their place instead of leaving them there to rot?)
See the link for more:
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=94
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