Kayak & Big-Water
Steep-creek descents, the first 100-foot waterfall drop, expedition kayaking, Tyler Bradt's Palouse Falls record.
Part of Extreme Sports
5 moments in this segment.
- — Modern whitewater kayaking — short boats. Plastic-rotomolded short kayaks (Dagger, Wave Sport) replace fibreglass long-boats. Steep-creek and play-boating disciplines emerge.
- — Tao Berman — 98-foot Johnstone Falls. Tao Berman runs 98-foot Upper Johnston Falls — the highest waterfall descent at the time. Sets the world record at age 20.
- — Tyler Bradt — 189-foot Palouse Falls. Tyler Bradt runs 189-foot Palouse Falls — the still-standing world record waterfall descent. Survives a heel injury.
- — Rafa Ortiz — Niagara Falls (stand-up). Rafa Ortiz plans to kayak Niagara Falls — pulls out at the last minute citing the rescue risk to spotters. The Red Bull doc Chasing Niagara becomes the genre-defining big-water film.
- — Aniol Serrasolses — Antarctic ice waterfall. Aniol Serrasolses kayaks a 20-metre Antarctic glacier ice waterfall — the first descent of an ice-fall on this continent.
