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 one place it could be used ...

All of that was prelude to Inga, where the world’s second largest river takes a hard right turn, dropping through seven major rapids over the course of about 15 miles. Here the Congo River has ...

Steve Fisher is a 2013 Adventurer of the Year for leading an expedition to kayak the Congo River's Inga Rapids, the largest rapids in the world, culminating in the release of the film Congo: The ...

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.

Kayaker Steve Fisher knows a thing or two about doing the impossible. Fisher, who was named a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2013, paddled the Congo River’s notorious Inga Rapids.

Benny Marr is one of the best, as proven on the world stage by his victory in the Whitewater Grand Prix, the craziest and most outrageous event ever hosted for kayakers. The Whitewater Grand Prix ...

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 ...

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, ...