On my summer vacation I almost paddled down the last un-run tributary of the Amazon
DISAPPEARING INTO A DEEP CANYON ABYSS just downstream of Huanuco in northern Peru, El Rio Huallaga carves its course around the base of a massive Andean peak, and doesn’t rejoin a road until it drifts into the steamy jungle town of Tingo Maria nearly a hundred kilometres later. The Department of Huanuco considers this River Styx unsafe for travel and the U.S. State Department forbids its employees from visiting it. The jungle surrounding the Huallaga’s lower reaches bubbles with malaria and besides Kurt Casey’s original attempt of the Huallaga in 1999, few Westerners have ever peered into the canyon’s depths.
The team was fortunate to have river-level scouting options, as the Huallaga’s massive canyon walls left few options for egress. >
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