Briton dies on river adventure holiday.A 24-YEAR-OLD British man has died while canyoning Canyoning (known as canyoneering in the U.S.) is traveling in canyons using a variety of techniques that may include walking, scrambling, climbing, jumping, abseiling, and/or swimming. on holiday with friends in France. Vikram Reddy, reported to be a law student from Maidstone, Kent, died near the town of Tourrettsur-Loup, near Cannes. He was canyoning on the River Loup loup a bounding gait. when he is believed to have drowned in a whirlpool. The daredevil sport involves riding along fastrunning streams and abseiling down waterfalls. Capitaine Henri Souverain, of the Bar-du-Loup gendarmerie gen·dar·me·rie n. 1. A body of French gendarmes. 2. Slang A group of police officers. [French, from Old French, calvary, from gent d'armes, gendarme, , said: ``His friends were watching as he jumped from a 40fthigh boulder into the river. ``He was sucked under and then reappeared and was thrown on to rocks where he hit his head hard. ``His friends tried to reach him but he was swept away.'' |
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