Headless chickens and dead car batteries: chasing the monsoon in eastern India
In August of 2014, as part of the five-month All India Kayaking Expedition, five Brits and one Indian traveled and paddled through three central-eastern Indian states that had never seen any whitewater exploration. With a winning combination of heavy monsoon rains and huge mountain ranges, this new region holds incredible paddling potential and enough whitewater to fuel years of exploration.
As I shone the light on the chickens Arjun and Ayodhya had bought from the local village, one of them flinched -- a strange reaction from a chicken you thought you had just killed. Just to be sure, Callum grabbed the chicken and pulled its head clean off, covering the granite slabs along the banks of the Sankh River with…
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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, KS#53 (spring 2015)