Liveonce Adventure

July saw water levels drop off in Norway so we headed north towards the arctic
circle for some exploratory boating. Liveonce Media and an international crew
of Sam Hughes, Rosie Cripps, Simon Westgarth, Ali Donald, Matt Tidy and Dan
Cassin completed several first descents and shot plenty of footage for an
up coming road trip film. 5, 000 kilometres and around twenty new rivers later
we arrived back in Sjoa for the Sjoafest. Team member Rosie Cripps continued
to take the kayaking world by storm by winning both the freestyle and boater
x events.

This was undoubtedly some of the most beautiful and enjoyable paddling I
have ever done- a great crew of people running everything from big volume
to steep creeks in the most pristine environment.

Rob and Jonno Church, Photo by Tyler Curtis

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Oh yes, then I broke myself. After two amazing months creeking everyday,
my paddles broke just above the bottom drop on the triple waterfall drop on
the Songdalselva. As a result I blew the line, and hit rock at the bottom
very hard.

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For the second time I teamed up with Dave Carroll, Colin Wong, Simon Westgarth to
competed in the Teva X-treme Mountain Games held in the beautiful Val Sesia
Valley, Italy. Despite a late night the night before I was stoked to make
the semi-finals against very strong opposition. An awesome event, an awesome
weekend!

Results here

Liquidlife Festival, Scotland

May 2005 Together with Bob Campbell, Ali Donald, Shane Cronin and the Pyranha landrover we drove from Hollyhead to Scotland for the Liquidlife
festival held on the Tummel river. Despite some rough weather, the event
was a great success.

Ali
Donald

After fours years of planning, two members of the Blue Nile Expedition successfully
reach the Meditareanean, in doing so becoming the first people in history
to kayak the Blue Nile from source to sea. Over the coming winter Liveonce
Adventure Media will be editing a documentary of the expedition for television.
International interest has followed the trip including features in National
Geographic Adventure, Paddler (US), Kayak Session, Canoe and Kayak (UK) and
Outsider.

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Together with Simon Westgarth and Kala O’Riordain, we spent five weeks in
British Columbia filming for Hypoxia 2, a whitewater kayaking documentary.

We teamed up with Patch Bennett, Mark Basso and loads of BC locals who showed
us around the best rivers in North America. Committing class 5 wilderness
boating at its best.

For an guide to boating in British Columbia that appeared in Outsider click
here

Rob on the
Pingston , BC

Diego
Valsecchi

Check out Diego’s latest crazy exploits

here

Liveonce Adventure Media took part in a gruelling month long expedition to
the Lorestan Mountains in Iran to film a documentary on kayaking the Baktiari
River, which expedition legend Dave Manby describes as the most "full on river
I have done in 25 years of expedition boating". The trip turned out to
be epic, with first descents, robberies, and some of the most remote whitewater
any of us had ever paddled. Over the coming winter we hope to be involved
in the post production of the documentary of the trip for the BBC.

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