Adventure Magazine

David Nogales Tarragó, the photographer on this trip...
“Aniol talked to me and proposed that I join his project
in Iceland with Mikel and Aleix. I haven't shot any river
sports before and didn't really know about them apart
from social media, but I've always been passionate
about the plasticity of kayaking and I think there's no
better way to get introduced to the whitewater than a
Red Bull project that was focused on the exploration
of new rivers and running waterfalls in Iceland, so I
accepted without hesitation. We struggled finding the
right river flows during the first days and scouted many
places without any success. We travelled all around
the island, the team knew some famous runnable
spots but the main purpose of the project was to find
first descents, we headed to the famous Studlagil
canyon to visit the place and realised one nearby
tributary river had some potential for whitewater
kayaking. We spent the night close to the spot and
the next day hiked for several hours up the put in of
the river. The run worked pretty well and there was
this waterfall at the end after a really close seal launch
move (sliding from the rock) that gave no time to react.
On spots of this kind it is a one chance shot, because
it is definitely too aggressive to repeat it many times,
so you have to make sure you don't miss the shot.
While Aniol was getting ready I already had the shot
on my mind and started testing settings and frames so
there's no place for mistakes once he's dropping.”
Right: Aniol Serrassolses droping a waterfall in Studlahil,
Iceland
Following page: Aniol Serrasolses on a sequence of 3
consecutive waterfalls in the Keldus river in Iceland
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