Kayaker Ben Stookesberry, who’s featured on the cover of this month’s Men’s Journal, had his expedition cut short last week when he was stopped and held by a team of rogue elements of Colombia’s rebel FARC army, which for decades controlled large swathes of the country and made kidnapping a cottage industry.
Stookesberry and an international team of whitewater paddlers were in the midst of the first descent of the Río Apaporis, which snakes 700 miles through the Colombian rainforest and drops over seven distinct waterfalls. The paddlers were among the first adventurers to … More
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