Exciting experience nearing river? (9)
I believe the answer is:
adventure
'exciting experience' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'nearing river?' is the wordplay.
'nearing' becomes 'advent' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'river?' becomes 'ure' (river in Yorkshire).
'advent'+'ure'='ADVENTURE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for adventure that I've seen before include "Exciting or daring experience" , "Exciting series of events" , "Exciting exploit" , "that may be exciting" , "Risk" .)