>> yeah. >> a sliced finger in day-to-day life isn't such a big deal. but in extreme class 6 whitewater kayaking, your life depends on your hand. it was pretty clear that my clock was ticking in terms of an infection. >> it's bleeding the same as it was. this is going to have to do. >> in scouting the river, we knew that maybe the most committing portion, maybe the most dangerous section of river that we had seen on the entire thing was situated almost just upstream of the actual lz. so for over 2 1/2 weeks, we always had that in the back of our mind of that shit that's between here and any hope of exit is peppered with areas that were completely unrunnable or