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Exist almost anywhere else on our planet. >> the llanganates mountains is a wild place in that it is completely roadless. it's vast, impenetrable jungle with 14,000-foot ridge lines going in, surrounded by a 20,000-foot volcano. the topography of this area is like none other. what we're attempting to do here is basically be the first people, the first known group to cross the llanganates via the chalupas river. >> it's crossing this part of the jungle that's pretty impenetrable. some people have tried to cross there by foot, and it hasn't worked. we know it will be big and complicated and remo...

On the hiking scale. >> the one thing about this river objective, nobody's done it. there's no map. there's no information. you're moving through this huge national park that doesn't even have a park ranger. >> the challenge of crossing the llanganates is only made possible because of the whitewater kayak. and so that becomes some kind of life's accomplishment to have trained as a whitewater kayaker for more than two decades, to bring that to bear on one of the world's greatest river challenges. there's no other accomplishment that i can imagine that would match that for me. it's winning the w...