Video: Avon Descent

One of my favorite gurus, Tom Hodgkinson of The Idler, demonstrates what you can do with your spare time if you don’t waste so much energy on work, paying taxes and doing what everyone tells you. An awesome achievement pulled off at the last minute! This was the 2011 Avon Descent, the only white water race of its kind in the world.

Robert J. Hutchinson is a writer, essayist and author of popular history.