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White Water Rafting provides you with the excitement and challenge of white water.
It emerged following the Second World War when enterprising adventurers in America
realised that they could take unwanted inflatable rubber pontoons and use them as a
means of descending some of the country’s most challenging white water.
We asked some of our winners what they thought of
the experience and whether it has inspired them to
take on another paddling adventure...
Caroline
Awesome day... great to meet Steve Backshall.
Proud to be part of the launch of National Go
Canoeing Week... Feeling Inspired to go out and
have #thebigadventure, especially as I seem to have
overcome my fear of white water. I laughed all day!
Our competition winners took to the Olympic course
at Lee Valley to experience the thrills, spills and
adrenaline pumping challenge of rafting and were
lucky enough to spend their first time on the rapids
with adventurer Steve Backshall who famously tackled
some seriously impressive white water in his latest TV
series ‘Down the Mighty River’.
Sarah
Absolutely loved my first time rafting and it
definitely won’t be my last!
It has inspired me to get into paddlesport adventures
and I have already been stand up paddleboarding
since.
I have never tried white water rafting or any
type of paddlesport before and didn’t know what
to expect. It was a great adrenalin pumping
experience and something I will definitely be
looking to do again!
Chris