Totally Lame GoPro: Setting a Kayaker on Fire

Someone posted the below video to my social media feeds today and made the comment, “There are thousands of good reasons and good ways to paddle, this is not one of them.” The title for the video was, GoPro: The Kayak Fire Fall with Rafa Ortiz. With a clickbaity title like that, how could I not click on the link and see what GoPro was doing now?

My first thought when I started the video was, I wonder if they found a natural phenomenon like Yosemite’s Firefall. When the setting sun hits Horsetail Falls exactly right in the month of February, it lights up like a burning stream of fire. I thought that GoPro found another sweet waterfall that does that and they were going to run it.

But, nope.

They lit a kayaker on fire and pushed him over a waterfall.

Is this what extreme sports is coming to now?

It isn’t good enough to run a big waterfall anymore without setting yourself on fire. The total disrespect for the environment is stunning. But, in this day and age I guess you have to pull a stunt to get any views.

Totally lame stunt, GoPro. Totally lame.

GoPro: you are giving kayaking a bad name and turning outdoor adventure into a joke. Just stop it.