Just saved my friend's life. Now I'm going to drop this 60 footer. No biggie.

AWESOME SAVE...AWESOME SAVE!!!! Textbook! If you used your wedged kayak as an anchor for yourself, then this is elevated to the level of WORLD CLASS BRILLIANT!! You had the presence of mind to read the situation and act swiftly...and you knew the clock was ticking on your friend's ability to hang on. Swimming that falls likely would have ended with a broken femur/hip, because it was not a clean drop. so you HAD TO MAKE THAT TOSS!! And the editing of the two experiences together gave full breadth to the narrative of the film. Best of its kind I've ever seen.

Showing both perspectives was nice. You had one chance at that throw, he had one chance to make the grab...absolutely nuts. Glad you both made it out relatively safely!

Thank you for saving bren! This time and all the others we didn't see.

Just replaced my old ragged throwrope with a new 70 footer NRS partly due to this video - hope I don't need to use it... This is the best rescue footage I've seen! Thanks.

You can fake a lot of things, whitewater kayaking is not one of them

That goof-music is just wrong for this.

I thought people were probably exaggerating about the song... nope it's definitely awful.

I like the comment about "don't run a waterfall you wouldn't care to jump down or swim over..." Does that guy think that the kayak is just for style? Being in a kayak allows us to do things in places that would be dangerous otherwise. That's the point. Awesome save. Sick drop. Great footage.

That was just so well executed that rescue ! Excellent job. Assessed the situation made sure he was safe and secure before attempting rescue!

Fair play to everyone involved. We all swim sometimes, but we definitely don't always pull off such a good rescue. Great effort! Haha, "only run something if you'd be happy to swim it or jump over it", what a ridiculous idea.

Great save... shitty song, but great save.

HATE THE MUSIC.

That was pretty gnarly. Nice toss on the throw bag. As somebody who's been bagged multiple times myself, it's comforting to boat with friends that you 100% trust. Good job. I've made your vid the video of the day on GPA.

The guy (Bren Orton) saved in the video died a few weeks ago on a river in switzerland. One of the most beloved kayakers in the scene

This video has it all. Swim queen action, superman saves the day and then the hot boater runs the next waterfall. Reminds me of the big swim of 89.

Man, wouldn't want to swim that! Great save dude!

Awesome video and wicked rescue. That dude owes you one! Nice work

How did he end up getting out of that gorge?

I could hardly finish due to music'..if u can call it that

I've never even done a class III but love watching stuff like this! Crazy footage and overall vid was put together with soundtrack and different angle edits perfectly.

Entertainment at others' expense. The very essence of comedy. Must have been a fun climb out of there for Orton.

Wow!!! Nice editing!!! thanks for this piece. Yeah..."Now I'm going to drop over this 60 footer!" so good.

This guy literally fucking owes you his life.... like holy shit. I got a rush from that, can't imagine how you felt. Like man props as fuck to you for keeping your shit together and pulling that off, that's some insane respect!

Good save! Your the hero man!

Something like this happened me once. I planted my paddle to my right to break into an eddy just before a big waterfall. The blade got wedged into a split in a submerged rock (I presume) and was ripped from my hands. I tried to keep hold but the flow was too strong. I obviously pivoted around the paddle as I tried to keep hold and ended up flowing backwards towards a massive drop, with no paddle. My buddy was on the bank eating sandwiches (not paddling that day) just there with his girlfriend. Mercifully, he had a throw bag at his feet. There was an instant of panicked eye contact followed by flying sandwiches, followed by a throw bag launch. He just pulled me off the lip of the falls. It could have been a very bad day otherwise.

He is one DAMN luck guy. KUDOS to the rescuer!!!

Amazing rescue!

Nice rescue. Good rougbag shot. Only one chance. It's a long fall with out the kayak (my english is not so good🙊) the most inportant is know who are you with in the river

It gave me the beautiful goosebumps equipment that god illuminates them forever for that courage of friends

Not sure why people are wondering about how they got the boat. I was in a similar position 10 years ago. We free climbed out of there in the dark leaving the boat. The next day we brought our abseiling kit and a body builder into the canyon, to get it. Problem was it was a write off.

Great job

Great save mate, well done :) i would paddle with u happyly knowing u got my back

Nice. (But: the music is, as ALWAYS in these kinds of vids superfluous).

The dude's gotta swim back across and get his kayak. :)

DUDE... the music... why would you do that? Video would have been great.

the music was very unbearable

Whoop! That'll make you feel alive! Nice FN save. Nice throw too😎

WOW! what a hero

Nice rescue

No way he said “you have one chance for this”

Mute Song and watch along.

Can the music, Jesus!

Wow that guy is strong!

Thanks for saving the short ginger bloke, he's one of my favorite kayaker's. I have to agree about the music, what were you thinking?

How did you get the swimmer back into his boat or down the other waterfall. Basically how did he get away from the falls????

ROBERT... IT GO DOWN

When you play with nature, specially water, don't expect to never die: it's coming for someone.

Some recorded audio of what you were doing and why would have way more useful than that song...

Instead of Macklemore we need Mackle-less.

Just wondering, how the resuced guy now can come to his green boat again ?

I'd def want that guy on my team !

what a shot with the rope bag

What's with the s*** music we're trying to save a life here

Good rescue. What happened to Bren after? Was he able to hike out of that area?

Macklemore I can dig it

Well done.

Who's scrolling through comments in hopes to find out how ole dude got out?

Awesome bro!🤙🏻

Whats the name of the fall? Looks like a sick spot

Lack of experience, this team should not be running waterfalls or atleast the guy who pulled. If you can’t roll up in whitewater you shouldn’t be running a waterfall especially a 60’

lmao this is macklemore? Why does he suddenly "rap" with a british accent?

Music made this hard to watch

Note to self...don't go kayaking in rapids with 60 foot waterfalls.

Fricking "Music" NOISE. RUINS a great video.... why doe everyone have to have skull splitting "music" in all these video.... IT REALLY RUINS IT ALL...we are out in nature after all...not is some GANG BANGING GHETTO. DOWN WITH NOISE POLLUTION

how did they get the green kayak unstuck to eventually get the kayaker down the waterfall?

I had to watch twice to understand the situation , great save!

Admittedly, my spine would probably do better swimming than kayaking over a 60-footer. :-D

The music is an odd choice, but I didn't mind it.

Ha GOLD! That would have been a pretty tense ferry on the rope, couldn't have got much closer to the lip!

I THOUGHT THE SONG WAS WRECKING BALL LOL

Wait, he saved himself and his friend but did they go down the fall anyway?! Or just the first guy? Oh my 😮

Good save.

Ok so what exactly is was the plan there??? get down the small waterfall and then what? there is nowehere to go.

The friend whose life was saved probably took a long time before getting any energy back into his body! The panic and exhaustion of the rescue take a toll on the energy level. I was literally a near death experience for him. This was a warning. He may have decided not to go through such rapids again.

Holy shit ive never seen such a bunch of entitled children in the comments having a rager that the music isnt exactly what they want...

What country are you kayaking in

Damn it. I lost my water bottle

Did the 2nd paddler not have a good line to hit the 50 footer?

great job!

Quick fast and in a hurry with that rescue!!

Is that Bren?

What was their plan in the first place? To drop the second fall as well?

He might not have the best roll but he knew who to paddle with. His partner had his shit together.

why the music????

Ok and how did you guys get out there?

holy shit. good job you stud

What in the world is this music? O people actually like this “song”??

I think the watermark is too small. Maybe you just need to go the extra mile and cover the whole darn video

Shouldn't have leaned upstream in a broach! That's a recipe for capsize, carnage and yard sale.

damn that water looks good to me about right now as Im drenched in sweat

What song and artist is the music in this video?

Whoa chills

Is that Pete DeLosa over there 😂😂😂

Why why why would you choose this bloody awful music? Totally inappropriate for the video. Ruined it utterly.

just heard this song for the first time- new favorite song because of how ridiculous it is

did he ever get his gren kayak back

Great save, music was fucking obnoxious. Why keep the throw rope inside the boat, under the skirt? Why not clipped to the vest?

You'd have to go out of your way to ruin this video with a song. 🤢🤢🤢

The song is probably Copyright free, YT and Copyright forces content makes to use shit or pay out the nose for good tracks.