This morning at 7.30am Tyler Bradt, Anton Imler, Rush Stuges and Lane Jacobs put on at Karuma falls to paddle the epic Murchison Falls section of the Nile. Having been involved in one of the first descents of the section Tyler is leading the trip.
The boys were nervous before putting on. And rightly so - 20,000 hippos occupy 40km of gnarly whitewater and flats, making it the highest concentration of hippos anywhere in the world.
It's the combination of the hippos, crocs, remoteness and potential rebel activity that makes this trip such an udertaking. The fact that the whitewater is some of the biggest in the world is not seen as a major danger in view of this, yet swimming is obviously not an option.
We wish the team luck, and hope to hear good stories in a few days time.
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