In a message dated 7/29/99 11:32:12 AM, jessie at SIRSI.COM writes: << I heard on the news that the term in the U.S. in "canyoneering." Jessie Emerson >> I doubt that CANYONING is a French term, though I guess it isn't impossible! Do you mean to imply that CANYONING is British? Odd, since they don't have canyons (well, maybe they do now)