SOLOING

In this column, Nouria reflects on her experience soloing the Tsarap and asks herself if it was worth the risk.

By Nouria Newman

I messed up. I messed up bad. I was alone in the Himalayas, stuck in a pocket eddy, which feeds into a siphon. No one could help me. No one but myself. I managed to stabilize myself, jam my paddle, and throw my Watershed onshore. If I jumped out of my boat and made it onto the rocks, there was a chance that I wouldn’t get sucked into the human-sized toilet flushing right next to me. But that was the ideal scenario, not the reality. Next thing I knew, I was getting sucked underwater, straight into the siphon. As I went down, I pushed my boat as far away from me as possible in a last attempt to maximize my chances of not getting stuck. There was nothing else I could…

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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, Winter 2019

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