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Beforeyou book

The questions people search before they book.

Every ground on Thrillgrounds lists the operator's own limits and prices. These guides pull them together per activity and add the numbers the operators don't put on their booking pages: how often things go wrong, according to the associations and agencies that count.

A bungy jumper diving head-first from the Nevis pod, arms spread, with the dry Nevis gorge far below

Guide · 8 grounds

35–150^{kg · the widest weight band, Kawarau}

Bungee jumping

weight bands at 8 sites, minimum ages from 10 to 18, what a jump costs, what is known about the risk

La Fortuna waterfall dropping into a jungle pool

Guide · 11 grounds

11 of 12^{Swiss canyoning deaths 2000–17 were drownings}

Canyoning

ages from 6, weight bands from 25 kg, prices from €62 to $300, why the flash flood is the whole risk

A balloon basket and envelope being prepared at dawn near Marrakech

Guide · 2 grounds

45^{fatal balloon accidents · USA 1982–2015}

Hot-air ballooning

age from 1 to 6, physical requirements, prices from €10 to $525, the NTSB record

A tandem paraglider with a red and black wing high in a blue sky above Interlaken

Guide · 10 grounds

11^{fatal accidents · Germany 2022, 38,000 pilots}

Paragliding

passenger limits at 12 launch sites, tandem prices, DHV accident statistics

Two people under an orange parasail canopy towed by a boat off Miami

Guide · 2 grounds

3–5 m^{rides a year in the US · NTSB}

Parasailing

combined weight limits, age from 5, prices, the NTSB investigation

The jump aircraft of Taupō Tandem Skydiving on the ground

Guide · 14 grounds

0.46^{deaths per 100,000 jumps, USA 2025}

Skydiving

weight limits at 15 drop zones, real prices, USPA and BPA accident data

A climber in a helmet standing at the top of Via Ferrata Loen with the Nordfjord and snow-capped mountains spread out below

Guide · 6 grounds

40–120^{kg · the EN 958 test weights}

Via ferrata

the 40–120 kg rule of the lanyard standard, ages from 8, guided prices, DAV accident analysis

A raft full of paddlers in helmets crashing through a grade 5 rapid on the Zambezi

Guide · 12 grounds

0.45^{deaths per 100,000 commercial boaters · American Whitewater}

White-water rafting

minimum ages from 3 to 15 by river class, prices, the fatality rate per 100,000 user days

Zipline cables strung high over Fitzsimmons Creek between Whistler and Blackcomb mountains

Guide · 18 grounds

77 %^{of zipline injuries are falls · US study}

Ziplining

weight bands at 17 lines, minimum ages from 5, prices, the only national injury study