Adventure Magazine

DEFYING DEATH

To defy: by definition...

1 : to confront with assured power of resistance.

2 : to challenge to do something considered impossible.

In the adventure community you don’t have to look far to find good survival stories. Kiwi kayaking legend Mike Dawson writes for us on a regular basis, and I knew he would have been in some tight situations, so I asked him. His response straight away was ‘if you wanna talk to someone who knows how to survive talk to Anoil’. So we did!

You grew up in Catalonia,We got introduced to the sport by random luck. We used to ride our bikes to school daily, on those trips we happened to ride next to our local river, the TER.

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