'Great Britain's Natty Cordon Crutches Path to Silver Medal in Giant Slalom'

A great race report by David Hughes from Pucon Kayak Hostel. Click Here to read the full article.

"It was a blue sky Chilean day for the 2013 Palguin events... Chile’s Rio Palguin is South America’s most run steep creek for good reason. The Middle and Salto Palguin sections attract top pro-kayakers and wannabe huckers to fantastic clean drops at all-you-can eat heights. A series of class V rapids keep the huckstars challenged."

"The events began with the Giant Slalom Women’s division. Great Britain’s and PKH guest Natty Cordon with broken foot crutched her way down the canyon as fellow Brit Tony Becker carried her kayak. Natty would notch a clean first heat run while her United States competition Jessie Rice would miss the hard to make second gate taking a 50 second penalty. After Cordon crutched her way out of the canyon exhausted she decided to stick with her clean first run and the pressure would be on Rice to clean her lines. Rice did clean her lines to win the giant slalom and Cordon would finish her day with a silver and later the 70 foot drop of her life....

...Congrats Natty for being a badass and having great lines."

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Palguin Giant Slalom Results

Jessie Rice- Gold (Women)

Natty Cordon- Silver (Women)

Evan Garcia- Gold (Men)

Momo Castillo- Silver (Men)

Wes McCue- Gold (Men University)

Jacob Slobodian- Silver (Men University)

Jaime Lancaster- Gold (Jr class)