Mikel Sarasola is a whitewater kayaker who’s not afraid of a little bit ice—and even a variety of ice, on this case. Sarasola not too long ago shared a video on social media displaying him kayaking in a slender river carved by ice and snow. At instances, the water sweeps him into tubes of ice barely large enough for him and his kayak to get by. He at all times manages to keep upright, although it appears to be like fairly bushy at instances. On the finish of his run, Sarasola’s reward is plunging off a waterfall.
Sarasola doesn’t present a ton of context about his video, however he does add the hashtag #svalbard, suggesting that’s the place on the planet he took on this journey. Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago within the excessive Arctic that lies between Norway’s mainland and the North Pole.
Although he makes it look fairly simple, we doubt it was simple. It additionally appears chilly. Sarasola doesn’t appear to thoughts the problem, although. He wrote in his video’s caption that the expertise was “a dream come true.” (We assume he knew about that waterfall earlier than he went over the sting.)
Watch a whitewater kayaker tackle ice-river kayaking right here:
Would you do that should you had the chance, waterfall and all?
