Tsangpo

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The Tsangpo is a river that runs through Tibet (China) from the Himilayas to the Indian province of Arunachal Pradesh. (At that point, the river becomes the Brahmaputra River.) The name is also given to the gorge through which the river flows. It's likely the deepest and longest canyon in the world. The area is so inaccessible that its Hidden Falls waterfall wasn't even discovered until 1998.

The river is an unthinkably remote and often powerful flow of water, unpaddled in recorded history until a successful descent in early 2002 by Mike Abbott, Allan Ellard, Steve Fisher, Johnnie Kern, Willie Kern, Dustin Knapp and Scott Lindgren.

The National Geographic Society had undertaken a descent in 1998, but massive water levels claimed the life of kayaker Doug Gordon, a very experienced paddler.