Kayaker Dane Jackson descends
300 feet down waterfalls in Mexico...
When
Dane Jackson turned around and looked back at the tower of frothing water above him, he could scarcely believe what he had just experienced.
The American has taken his trademark pink kayak to some of the most remote waterfalls in the world, but few, he says, compared to the Santo Domingo Gorge in Mexico – home to the
steepest, runnable section of whitewater in the world.
Buried deep in a jungle in the southern state of Chiapas, the four tightly-packed waterfalls are well secluded from civilization, as hazardous as they are paradise for kayakers like Jackson. “It’s one of those sections that you just cannot believe even exists,” he tells
CNN Sport, several weeks after descending the whitewater section in March.
The run drops more than 300 feet in the space of 0.2 miles and is broken up into four sections: Angel Wings, The Dome, Toboggan, and Raw Dog. The first two are the tallest and therefore the most challenging; Angel Wings drops about 80 feet and runs almost directly into The Dome, which is 85 feet.
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