Patagonia Quad-crown

I've been living in Chile for years now, but in the summer of '23, I had some friends coming over... Sven Laemmler, Ian Salvat, and Benny Marr gathered in Futa for some big water training.
Afterwards, we headed South to fulfill a long-time dream: completing four of the best rivers in Patagonia in one season. The quad-crown, as they call it, is one of the most epic big water trips in the world, encompassing the Baker, Pascua, Mayer, and Bravo rivers. These are truly the jewels of Patagonia.
While I've done most of those runs a few times before, I was particularly excited about descending the Rio Pascua for the first time - known as the scariest, toughest, and most legendary of them all.
Flowing out of Lake O'Higgins, the Pascua ranks among the most powerful rivers in the world. With over 1200 cumecs rushing through tight canyons in the middle of nowhere, navigating its rowdy whitewater has high consequences in a very wild zone. It's a big water mission like few others left in the world.
We started the hike midday and paddled most of the lake overnight to avoid the wind. By midday the next morning, we reached the put-in. Despite the terrible weather, we pressed on, completing all the major portages that day and camping just before the start of the runnable gorges.
After a goodnight's sleep, we set off early and paddled the remaining whitewater - some massive holes and must-run gorges in the menu - in just a couple of hours we where out, having completed a run we’d been wanting for a very long time.
Over the next few days, we paddled the Mayer, Rio Bravo, and Baker. Great sections that used to be multi days at a time but now have become one day runs.
It took us six days to complete the quad-crown. Lots of kms and epic whitewater was ran. By far one of the best missions I've ever had in Patagonia with an great group of friends.
A huge thank you to Gonzalo Robert, for filming our journey and doing all our shuttles and to our good friend in the south Papo, for the amazing hospitality every time we come south.
Stoked for the next one.
Aniol
#patagonia #pascua #baker #bennymarr #svenlaemler #iansalvat #aniolserrasolses #classv #whitewater

[@kayakkootenaybc]

Absolute Banger. The evolution of kayaking and the evolution of film making combined.

[@pezeshki]

Beautiful, Aniol! Hi Benny!

[@arokit]

Those moves at the end are epic. Great video.

[@oscarhenry6243]

Man, I can't describe how watching this makes me feel. Truly amazing kayaking from u guys :)

[@norganic1972]

Masterpiece of filming and kayaking. Thank´s for that. Greets Norganic

[@Cary_Glenn]

Amazing! The cinematography, the audio, the BIG water! So good.

[@davek7810]

Wow , stunning.. also captures the beauty that surrounds these amazing rivers.

[@brianluisi7616]

Thanks for keeping the swim, nice to see that you guys are not always perfect

[@kylebuss4623]

Best kayak video i have seen in a long time.

[@climbiker]

Estan remando super bien chiquillos... sigan asi.

[@alejandroyena2168]

Tremendos rios, tremenda edición...un lujo verlos kayakear ahi, son un faro guia para todos los que disfrutamos tanto fluir con los mas preciado de nuestro planeta, el agua, corriendo librementey llevando de a poco las montañas al mar :-)

[@ucb0y]

Deliscous Rios and stunning crew on and off the water. I’m loving Patagonia

[@epincion]

Thanks, a beautiful film scenery like out of a CGI fantasy, big knarly rivers and mad kayaking skills

[@Labuenavida84]

Epic video! Brings back some good memories from a trip a long time ago! We got scared on the Mayer and hike/climbed out! Wild part of Chile!

[@andretaylor1969]

Congratulations on this epic video. As good as it gets.

[@andrewjackson8825]

Effortlessly beautiful filming; of course it’s not, just so well done it seems that way. Re-ignites my lust to travel to far away places.

[@tobyneo10101]

Gnarly underrated sport.

[@yevhenii_iv]

Wow!!!

[@Famagogo]

Wow this is the best kayak video I've seen in years. I loved it. Thanks! I'm driving to Patagonia now and I'm more stoked than ever.

[@trentmccrerey3156]

Epic!!!

[@nicolasbrahic7587]

Great video!

[@JakeYaks]

I LOVE KAYAKING LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHOOOOOOOO

[@TrumanHouseCompany]

temendisimoo! 🔥🔥🔥

[@enriquevilasuso7975]

❤❤❤

[@justinmilner390]

epic sheep shit! did benny dirty at 4:50 lmao

[@enriquevilasuso7975]

🎥💯

[@notorious_media_tent]

epish

[@ChristopherWensvoort]

Wicked! Any chance you could share gopro settings for POV footage?

[@kilianivelic]

La wea buena

[@urko_wf]

😍🙏 brutal nen

[@Otetcfedor]

Привет из России!

[@jamiefrompaddle365]

Not much footage from the Mayer? Just the massive drop that someone swam from and presumably the others portaged, and then the exit rapids of the last canyon. How did you get on with the incredibly sketchy portage in the 2nd canyon?

[@serrasolsesmedia]

For the portage you just walk it out on the right side, one goes first and helps the rest go out. More footage on the mayer here:kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZrRYpuqadRnlac

[@jamiefrompaddle365]

@@serrasolsesmedia The eddy river right looked too sketchy when i was there, which led to an 8 hour walk out. I guess you either have to have lower water level than we had to safely make that take out or we missed something.

[@claudiotorres9068]

The best gringos😅😅