Adrian Mattern - A few short years ago, Adrian Mattern left school to pursue kayaking full-time, and since then has squeezed in a lot of travel, competitions and waterfall descents. Multiple first descents, youngest on the Stikine back in 2014, youngest and 4th decent on Newen Falls in Chile, successful descent of the 80ft Newen Falls, 1st Place Fuy Festival Freestyle, 1st Place Palguin Race Slalom - these are a few of his accomplishments.