Amazon Woman

Before her amazing feat, Darcy Gaechter was already know in kayaking circles as one of the best whitewater kayakers in the world. But something was gnawing at her – she was already a successful small business owner and had a great group of friends and family around her – yet she felt pressured to do ‘one last big thing’ and then settle down and live a ‘normal life.’ Get a ‘real’ job, have kids, have a retirement account…

So she sold her successful outdoor adventure business and embarked on a whopping 148-day journey that began on her 35th birthday. Starting at the mythic source of the Amazon River up in the Peruvian mountains, she would tackle raging class 5 whitewater for almost an entire month, with one dynamite filled canyon thrown in. Darcy and her two companions would encounter illegal loggers, narco-traffickers, murderous ‘Shining Path’ rebels, and ruthless poachers. She would navigate Peru’s notoriously dangerous ‘Red Zone’ and plead for mercy at the hands of the Ashaninka people who were convinced she and her fellow kayakers had come to steal their children’s organs.

But the toughest journey was inside her. With blistering lips and irradiated fingernails, Darcy would have to find the courage and strength to challenge nature, cultures, social norms, and her own expectations of who she is and what she really wanted her life to be.

Amazon Woman speaks to all of us feeling trapped by our desk-bound, online society. This a story of finding the courage and strength to challenge nature, cultures, social norms, and oneself.

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