Katie Scott in New Whitewater Kayaking Documentary
From Helena Independent Record:
At only 20, Scott is already considered one of the top female kayakers in the world. Now, come next week, she'll travel the planet documenting three endangered rivers while dipping her paddle into some of the most unforgiving water known to man.
Scott, from Helena, will leave for Nepal to begin her journey with a group of kayakers to make a documentary already dubbed "The Final Descent."
Likely to take a year to shoot and edit, the film will someday play at universities around the country, not to mention a little thing known as the Banff Mountain Film Festival.
"We just came up with this idea," she said. "We wrote the proposal and I called 30 different companies to meet with them. I went to the outdoor retail show in Salt Lake and since August, it's been about following up."
Scott described the documentary's purpose - to bring attention to some of the world's most beautiful and ecologically significant rivers, each threatened by large-scale hydropower dams.
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