It has, as one member of the first team to run the Inga Rapids on the Congo River put it, a "haunted vibe." Inga, which is actually a 50-mile series of rapids with football-field-sized whirlpools ...

It’s a horrible cliché, Steve Fisher concedes, but to run the Inga Rapids on the lower Congo River can be likened to scaling Mount Everest. “This would maybe be the ...

Steve Fisher knew two things for sure about the Inga Rapids of the Congo River: It’s the biggest whitewater on Earth, and the last seven people who tried to run it had died in the attempt.

The Inga Rapids are mired in red tape and steeped in a troubled history. In 1985, seven adventurers attempting to travel from the Congo River’s source to the sea disappeared there.

Fisher, who was named a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2013, paddled the Congo River’s notorious Inga Rapids. The last attempt of its kind ended in tragedy when seven French ...

Kayaker and filmmaker Steve Fisher knew he wanted to make a movie about kayaking the world’s biggest rapids on the Congo River more than five years ago. By the end of 2007, after making his ...

The proposed plant at the Inga Rapids, near the river’s mouth in the western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), would cost $50-billion and could generate some 40 000MW, twice the power ...

The Inga III hydropower project, on the Congo River's Inga Rapids, located some 225 kilometers from the capital, Kinshasa, is likely to be bogged down by its design.

They are the world''s biggest rapids, thundering down the final pitch of the mighty Congo River. Legendary kayaker Steve Fisher and his elite expedition team battle seemingly insurmountable obstacles, ...