When Eli Pyke first started kayaking, he would have nightmares of being pulled from his boat and then tumbling over a waterfall. Seven years later, the Bend, Ore., resident is dropping off 70-foot ...

One of the best parts about enjoying our great outdoors is that you can make your time as relaxed or as intense as you wish. You can hike a nice trail to see tall, awe-inspiring waterfalls. You can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. National Kayaking Champion Dane Jackson is defying the odds. Earlier this month, Jackson — who was born deaf — accomplished a ...

There isn’t a lot that scares Tyler Bradt, so before he steered his kayak off the lip of eastern Washington’s Palouse Falls and dropped 18 stories amid water rushing at 2,000 cubic feet (57 cubic ...

Let’s get this out of the way. Tyler Bradt kayaked off Washington’s 189-foot Palouse Falls first. That was in 2009, and he stayed in his boat the entire time. On April 25 of this year, when Mexican ...

Very few mortals will ever willingly plunge over a waterfall. And that's a good thing. Even the best of the professional kayakers suffer serious injuries when they descend waterfalls. Tyler Bradt, the ...

The first — and maybe the last — descent of Salto del Maule. A national kayaking champion dreamed of being the first person to run a 134-foot waterfall in the mountains of Chile. Credit...Courtesy of ...

"It was a pretty wild feeling," Dane Jackson told CNN National Kayaking Champion Dane Jackson is defying the odds. Earlier this month, Jackson — who was born deaf — accomplished a longtime dream of ...