--- title: Watch the First Kayaker to Successfully Run Keyhole Falls description: It's pretty epic canonical: https://time.com/3667544/kayak-lillooet-river-keyhole-falls/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-14T17:42:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:56.979Z og:title: Watch the First Kayaker to Successfully Run This 115-Foot Waterfall og:description: It's pretty epic. og:url: https://time.com/3667544/kayak-lillooet-river-keyhole-falls/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the First Kayaker to Successfully Run This 115-Foot Waterfall twitter:description: It's pretty epic. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the First Kayaker to Successfully Run This 115-Foot Waterfall  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jan 14, 2015 5:42 PM UTC  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jan 14, 2015 5:42 PM UTC It took two years of planning, but Aniol Serraolses of Spain just did what no kayaker has done before—successfully run the 115-foot tall Lillooet River Keyhole Falls in British Columbia. The Spanish Red Bull athlete spent two months in the area training and visited the falls six times before he decided conditions were right for kayaking. And then he dropped 115-feet down rushing water and survived. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3667544/kayak-lillooet-river-keyhole-falls/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3667544/kayak-lillooet-river-keyhole-falls/"},"headline":"Watch the First Kayaker to Successfully Run This 115-Foot Waterfall","datePublished":"2015-01-14T17:42:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:56.979Z","description":"It's pretty epic","url":"https://time.com/3667544/kayak-lillooet-river-keyhole-falls/","keywords":["Newsfeed","World"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3667544/kayak-lillooet-river-keyhole-falls/","name":"Watch the First Kayaker to Successfully Run This 115-Foot Waterfall"}}]}] ```