What will be the limit? From the current drops happening this new record will not be the last. However, this hasn’t been random heroes hucking themselves over huge waterfalls. The record has been held by professionals from the likes of Sean Baker, Corran Addison, Shannon Carroll, Tao Berman, Dave Grove, Ed Lucero, Paul Gamache, Tyler Brandt, and recently Pedro Olivia. These innovators have pushed the sport to a place few thought it could go. In March, Pedro’s decent went down in Campos Novo, Brazil on an Amazon tributary named Rio Sacre. The Salto Belo or Beautiful Falls stands 127 feet tall and only took Olivia 2.9 seconds to plunge to the rushing waters below. It only took Tyler Brandt a month to reclaim the crown of highest waterfall run in a kayak.
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