Adventure Magazine

TAKING THE DROP

American kayaker Dane Jackson has revealed the story behind his breathtaking 134-foot descent down the Salto del Maule waterfall in Chile, after his paddle over the edge became the second highest in history.

The reigning ICF canoe freestyle world champion grew up travelling the USA in an RV with his family, getting homeschooled by his mother and chasing kayaking competitions with his father, Eric Jackson, an Olympic paddler and founder of the company Jackson Kayaks.

The 26-year-old, who has now completed six waterfalls that are at least 100-feet high, has spent the last decade travelling the planet in search of new places to freestyle kayak as

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