most of the villages are scattered around the banks of the belisle river locals know it's capricious current so old some ralph never ventured down stream and wooden rafts or marriage but it's in the rafters of old enough to descend into steep gorges in pursuit of thrills me the freezing cold water well police nor rapids can put them off the adrenaline some can end this. i'm one and i'm one and two in winter time the actual level of the bell i read the drops revealing shot rocks and large boulders before embarking on such a dangerous trip to the block down scummy and several members of the rafting team tested their skills in a kayak. we're going to be weaving through the ropes as we go along the right bank . i really wish i hadn't given away my gloves how did you give your bugs to. my hands are freezing. the starboard to starboard to starboard starboard i told you. the crew wants to see how low the belisle river has dropped so they can spot the uplift of the ministry shallow water in the strong rapids of the forum's rough just right to say this kind of scouting helps them get what the

more than three thousand mountain streams and springs flow into the belisle river small waterfalls cascade from mountain tops into rocky gorges some canyons to form a full flowing river and many of the rocks overhanging the water a one hundred meters tall sunlight never reaches some of these places this is a kingdom of rock and water. the instructor insists that the crew hold a brief final training exercise in open water before reaching blackguards canyon this place is free from rapids and offers a good opportunity for safe training crewman put the finishing touches to stroke techniques and synchronised you know what it's like hell we can train here and you remember that we should have done it before we got to the canyon. what are we supposed to do in areas that. but yeah let's go skating. i think covers the lake they used to mine limestone here when the deposit ran dry water accumulated on the lakes bed it was then the rafters began using the lake for practice there is no other place anywhere near here without waves or strong current . the ice is breaking. let's go somewhere else. friends

is taken millions of years for belisle river to wind its way through the great caucuses mountain range the end result is made up of rocky banks clues and rough it is tolls. seven people decided to take the unpredictable river pedal they intend to navigate the passages granite walls of block house can honestly rob. gold. come on all of the wrong together is water. borne echoing. on the latest childlessness feel the full impact of the mountain streams on the giving spirit. make sure you stay up on top live it marching to the ball. to the bottom tell you. in the deep pool it's the group of tourists who come face to face the big challenge . it. the belisle river begins on the mountain tops of the caucasus range as the main waterway of the republic of add to gain in russia's south the mountain separate the public from the black sea coast. adding the one of the local ethnic groups that once lived up in the mountains. many years ago i digs with the first to leave the highland homes and to send them to the plane well the mountain dwellers followed suit later today there is ethnic groups inhabi

put themselves to the test in a bid to get the upper hand on the powerful mountain stream the belisle river always keeps rafters on that clearing is quite an ordeal. being. all bronze bronze oh if you want but the ones are the ones. who are back away. rafters know the velayat river has an unpredictable current and extremely difficult rapids it is the science of international competitions each year tons of money it's a russian play bass and it boulders and treacherously can seal elbows. so the limb currents change cools to hollow out inches on the rocks and will pull spring up in the most unexpected places a river flood and detailed study of it is that possible to chop the best route from the rapids. yes all the boat everybody gets out. let's listen up before we go on we need a breather. after our daughter santana let's have some rest. with half of the journey behind them it is to rest a strain of the rapids has taken its toll. we've covered about half of the distance so for another four difficult records are still ahead of us so let's get go and. the rest is relax on a small flat patch of t