'Because it's there'

For some genetic reason, British so-called 'explorers' still seem drawn to particularly pointless activities like trying to scale Everest by hopping backwards in their PE kit or trying to be the first 11-year-old to reach the South Pole blind-folded.
I was reminded of this by events last weekend at the World Sauna Championships, dominated by Scandanavian countries where saunas are a big part of the culture, especially in Finnland. Well, take a competition in which you win by enduring incredible temperatures for longer than everyone else and eventually guess what happens? That's right- someone died. Very tragic but very stupid.
There is usually a perfectly good reason why no-one has done something before- it's stupid, dangerous, pointless or all three.