Pioneering trips, great expeditions and remarkable feats of kayakers – told from sources, participants' accounts, archives and historical records. These are stories of people who chose unknown rivers over well-worn trails, and of expeditions that pushed the limits of exploration and left a lasting mark on the history of kayaking.
Nearly a year in Australia, a single university map instead of a guidebook and months of fruit-picking to get on the water at all. The CanoeAustralia 1990 expedition, in the recollections of Zbigniew Owsiak.
Read →Thirty-three months, twenty-three rivers across the Americas and the Colca canyon, where they paddled two kilometres a day drinking river water with sugar. The story of the CanoAndes ’79 expedition.
Read →The first descent of the Colca canyon, 1981. Seven students from the Kraków club Bystrze, seventeen days fighting for every metre of the river, and a depth record still disputed today.
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