I would too. I suspect it's got nothing to do with that either though. These are just people out for adventure, also a modern pathology.

Hell, I concede that you might even be able to find them saying "it's not as unsafe as they claim". I've been to (way safer) places that my very safety-conscious family criticized for me, and my response was: it's not as unsafe as you think. That is me covering my ---. Not trying to prove a point. So to assert that the whole motivation was "to prove that it's not unsafe" is a bit much.

People are selfish and self-interested (even if that is a thrill for novelty). They don't put their own lives at risk to prove some sort of weird point. They may dress up their self-interest as humanitarianism or defend it, but that's very different from that being the actual reason.