"What if you spent a weekend rafting on rapids close to home?"
The splash of cold water in your face while your team shouts to keep paddling — that's not something you forget quickly. You learn to collaborate instinctively under pressure, and afterwards that satisfying muscle soreness feels like a badge of honour.
Joris (29), Tilburg — geography teacher, restores old bikes in his shed
We'd barely gotten the boat onto the water when Daan was already out of it — literally the first rapid, not even twenty metres from the jetty.
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