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For the last three years, waterfall huckster Rafa Ortiz has been sizing up the grand-daddy of them all, Niagara Falls.

Yesterday, with all the pieces in place for the historic first descent, he walked away from the 167-foot behemoth.

“I walked to the drop like I’ve done with many waterfalls in the past, looking for that last positive feeling,” the Mexican phenom said in a Facebook post. “It was not there.”

Ortiz, who ran 189-foot Palouse Falls last year   …  More

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