Rafters Get Last Look at the Great Bend of the Yangtze

Text by Rivers in Demand teammate Kyle Dickman

A year from now, it will be impossible to repeat the eight-day rafting trip we just completed down the Great Bend of the Yangtze. This 120-mile section of the Yangtze, like many of China’s rivers, will be dammed in 2009. It was amazing to experience this world-class stretch of whitewater before it changes forever.

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Photograph by Adam Mills Elliott