Escalada noturna na Serra do Mel: experiências de lazer, aventura e bem-estar de escaladores de Montes Claros – MG

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze the aspects and factors that lead climbers to practice night climbing on full moon nights in Serra do Mel. It aimed to describe the experiences and verify the personal representations (values and meanings) related to the practice of night climbing. This was a descriptive qualitative research, with literature review on the subject in order to provide a theoretical framework for further discussions. We used an open questionnaire to better capture the individual translation of the participants in relation to the practice of night climbing at the Campo Escola Pedreira, Montes Claros Municipality – MG. The sample was comprised of ten climbers (men and women), with experience in climbing. We concluded that the factors and aspects that lead climbers to practice night climbing is curiosity, the search for new challenges, overcoming their limits, interaction with nature, the technical development that the practice allows, and the available time they have, released from their obligations. The adventure, according to the surveys, is linked to the idea of the search of the unknown, what is to come and the desire for exploration.