Inside Knox Hammack's and James Shimizu's April 2019 runs of Washington's Palouse Falls, matching the world record of 186 feet. Directed and edited by Liam Fournier
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00:00Yeah, we're just dropping off about 30 seconds in to kill some air right here.
00:11Palouse became a dream of mine when I was 10 years old.
00:15That was the first time I saw the video of Tyler running it, and it just blew my mind.
00:23I wanted nothing more than to do that.
00:26I think the first time it really crossed my mind was living at the Beaver Lodge in White Salmon.
00:33There's a pretty big poster of it on the wall inside.
00:37I think everyone's looked at that poster at one point or another and thought about it.
00:44I genuinely didn't think anyone would want to run Palouse other than me.
00:50It's double anything I had run before it.
00:54It's a really scary spot even just to look at.
00:57It just demands respect.
01:01If you, say, land flat on something that you're trying to pencil in or plug,
01:05you could break your back, you could knock yourself out, you could fold your boat.
01:12Any movement you make on a waterfall is just going to get extrapolated on the way down.
01:23You need to have extremely good boat control and body control so you don't make any big movements
01:28because you're more likely to be injured that way.
01:54It's just extremely strong currents down at the bottom.
01:58It's 2,300 cubic feet of water falling off 186-foot cliffs.
02:06And water will do whatever it wants to you, so you're totally at the mercy of it.
02:12You just have to be really, really chill and not do anything too crazy.
02:18It's all about just being calm and really stable at the lip.
02:24I was actively just trying to envision the line in my head
02:27so that once I got to the lip I had already, in my mind, done it so many times
02:32that the feeling would just be natural with my body to do it again.
02:37I knew that everything I'd done would have been worth it to be at the bottom,
02:43be in one piece and feel okay.
02:45I knew that everything I'd done would have been worth it to be at the bottom,
02:46be in one piece and feel okay.
03:16When you're at your limit, I feel like that's when your true colors show, you know?
03:21Once people reach their limit, you can really see who they are for who they are.