Suzanne Harrington: The thrill of wild camping is waking up alive

Since when did camping become wild camping, and swimming become wild swimming? Since the invention of campsites and swimming pools?

OK, so not everyone wants to do what bears do in the woods — except unlike bears, responsible campers bring a shovel and dig deep — but humans have been wild camping since before we were humans. So why do we swim anti-clockwise in tiled rectangles of chlorinated child wee when there is the sea, the lake, the river? Why camp in a row of tents when we could strike off — with our shovel — into the wild? Or even the semi-wild?