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1. Expedition : Papua - Grand Canyon of the Pacific

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   This “Grand Canyon” was a kind of riddle we were unprepared to solve. But in turning our backs on the daunting Canyon and the river locals call the Beriman, we turned our attention to finding a solution and a logistic that would one day make the dream of kayaking the Grand Canyon Pacific a reality.

2. ‘Living the Best Day Ever’, Hendri Coetzee – memoirs of the Nile source-to-sea expedition

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   Sportscene was given exclusive access to the pre-published draft of Hendri Coetzee's autobiography; the South African was one of the most-respected explorers and paddlers in African history who navigated, by raft, the source of the Nile to its sea-mouth, Coetzee was sadly presumed dead in 2010 following an attack on his kayak by a crocodile.

3. Amazon: Where time has a different measure

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   As soon as the aeroplane approached the Eduardo Gomes Airport in Manaus, we already had the impression, the strong feeling, that time has a different currency in this city.

4. Stand up expedition to one of the world’s largest glaciers: the Helheim Glacier

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   August 2013, 9 stand up paddlers will navigate Greenland's iceberg-littered Sermilijk Fjord on route to the Helheim Glacier becoming the first explorers to ever undertake such a paddleboard feat.

5. Congo: The Grand Inga Project (2012)

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   Steve Fisher and a trio of the bravest elite white water paddlers undertake an expedition to become the first to successfully navigate the Inga Rapids, considered the sacred heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the most perilous descent in Africa, if not the world.

6. Destination: Grand Canyon

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   One of the most intense things in the Canyon is the general isolation from man-made noise and you will treasure the memory of the unique sounds of the Canyon long after you leave.

7. An expedition across Iceland

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   I had trained hard and planned carefully. I needed this. The last few months had been claustrophobic back home.

8. Crossing the Ditch to a heroes welcome

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   After sixty two days of paddling James Castrission 25, and Justin Jones 24, reached the New Zealand shores of Nagamotu Beach at 12.20 pm local time (10.20 am AEDT).

9. Australian kayakers set off to cross the Tasman

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   Two Sydney adventurers have set off from Forster on the NSW mid north coast in their bid to become the first kayakers to cross the Tasman Sea.