A Western Michigan University student has completed a six-day, 216-mile kayak trip down the Muskegon River to raise money for Parkinson’s disease research, education and advocacy.
Cody Ledsworth paddled to the finish line at a boat launch on Muskegon Lake on Tuesday. The 20-year-old’s trip was in honor of his grandmother, Marguerite Ledsworth, who has the disease, The Muskegon Chronicle reported.
Sage Donnelly and Henry Hyde are not your average 12-year-olds; they conquered waterfalls at age 8, share goal of competing in 2016 Olympics
Youth is served.
Certainly it is when it comes to the sport of kayaking and two 12-year-olds who are paddling beyond their years.
Sage Donnelly of Carson City, Nevada, and Henry Hyde of Denver, Colorado, have much in common besides their age and sport of choice. They compete and often beat adult competition, they have realistic aspirations of competing in the 2016 Summer Olympics, and they have conquered waterfalls, having gone where most kids their ages don’t even dream of going at age 9, let alone at age 12 … Pictures and more
Three well-known kayakers completed a top-to-bottom descent of world’s steepest river section, located on Mexico’s Rio Santo Domingo.
A trio of kayakers completed the impossible, or what seemed impossible, since no other kayaker had done what they did.
Rafa Ortiz, Evan Garcia, and Rush Sturges became the first kayakers to run a series of five waterfalls on the Rio Santo Domingo in a top-to-bottom descent of the world’s steepest river section, according to a report by Red Bull. The waterfalls had been successfully run individually before, but not all in one run. Until now … Great pictures and more