Braldu River
Encyclopedia
The Braldu River is located in the Himalayan
range and runs off the K2
Mountain.
. It was on that expedition that Jones lost his life trying to rescue a fellow team mate.
Himalayas
The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...
range and runs off the K2
K2
K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest...
Mountain.
Kayaking
The Braldu is considered to be extreme white water. The first attempt to kayak the river was a British expedition led by Mike JonesMike Jones (canoeist)
Mike Jones QGM was a 20th century canoeist known for his expeditions on the Blue Nile and Dudh Kosi.-Early life:Born in the early 1950s in Yorkshire, England, he began kayaking in November 1965 at age 14...
. It was on that expedition that Jones lost his life trying to rescue a fellow team mate.