COBRA TALES

In this column, Aniol recounts one of the biggest mistakes in kayaking history: dropping into the Black Hole on Mexico's Jalacingo River.

Aniol Serrasolses

BLACK HOLE We all have moments where we know that we've screwed up, that feeling of, "oh my god, what did I just do;' Moments when it's too late to turn back, and the only option is to keep going. I've had plenty of those in my life. In 2011, six of us fell off a 90-foot waterfall in Mexico, blind, in one of the biggest mistakes in kayaking history. We'd never seen the drop before; we didn't even know it existed. Yet we rallied into it as if we were approaching a 20-footer we'd done a thousand times. *** It was a beautiful morning in Mexico. Tino Specht and I had been filming for his UNKNOWN series on the Alseseca for a few days, and we were excited to…

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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, Fall 2022

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