Portfolio Items

The French Trio near end of their traverse from Green River, Wyoming to Lees Ferry.The Otis Marston Colorado River Collection, Huntington Library

Genevieve and Bernard de Colmont and Antoine de Seynes

The French Trio brought the latest technology of whitewater kayaking to America in 1938, while becoming the first to take kayaks down the mighty Green and Colorado rivers.

Bill Mason

Bill Mason developed a great passion for canoeing and the wilderness very early in life. As a renowned, award winning Canadian naturalist, author, artist, filmmaker and conservationist Bill Mason is widely considered a Canadian Canoeing Legend.

Oliver Cock

Oliver J. Cock’s contributions to whitewater kayaking became an integral part of the foundations of the British Canoe Union (BCU). His whitewater films, many from the 1940’s and 1950’s provide a valuable documentation and history of early whitewater paddling and training.

Chris Hawkesworth

Through his decades of camerawork and film-making alone, Chris made a remarkable and pioneering contribution to interest in, and enthusiasm for, whitewater canoeing, kayaking and rafting.