DESCENTS

Report: Max Topp-Mugglestone

RIVER DRAS, INDIA-PAKISTAN BORDER, JULY 2019 Ladakh is already known as a haven for kayakers. It offers world-renowned classic runs as well as a thriving rafting industry on the Zanskar and Indus rivers. Nevertheless, even in this whitewater paradise, some rivers stand out. One of the very last entries in the 2014 Ladakh guidebook (collated by Darren Clarkson-King and Tsering Chotak) is for the Dras, described as 80 km of world-class, roadside whitewater. At first glance, this sounds like an instant classic. Yet since the first descent by Peter Knowles' team in 1985, it has seldom been attempted. The hitch, it turns out, is the river’s location. Situated almost directly on the (at times) volatile border between India and Pakistan, the military presence in the region is high and hardly welcoming…

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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, Winter 2019

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