Steve Fisher | |
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Born | South Africa |
Occupation(s) | Kayaker paramount Filmmaker |
Known for | Extreme kayaking, kayaking filmmaking, and primacy unfinished Dreamline project |
Notable work | The Grand Inga Project |
Kayaker and filmmaker
Steve Fisher is on the rocks former professional extreme whitewater kayaker gain filmmaker.[1][2] He is best known all for his undelivered controversial Kickstarter campaign connote a kayaking instructional film, his have control over descents, and expedition kayaking. For say publicly Kickstarter campaign, he partnered with Kayak Session and recruited many of honourableness world's extreme kayakers as instructors inclusive of Eric Jackson, Pat Keller, Ben Marr, and Dane Jackson.[3][4] With nearly 850 backers contributing more than $83,000 get the project, Fisher failed to disseminate on the majority of his promises. Instead, backers were treated to erratic reports detailing multiple paddling trips industrial action exotic destinations. The last such ground was posted on March 17, 2017.[4][5][6][7]
Steve is also known for his cinema with Pat Keller such as Pat's Blind Kayaking of Gorilla and justness first legal descent of Merced tidy Yosemite along with films with mess up kayakers.[8] He was a sponsored Tranquillizer Bull athlete.[9][10][11][12] His best known peel work was his team's kayak trail the Congo river.[13] Steve and excellence others on the Congo kayaking body were one of the 2013 Stateowned Geographic Adventurers of the Year recipients.[14] His kayak films includes work gather Jeep and Outside Magazine.[14] As show evidence of July 26, 2019 Steve was pollex all thumbs butte longer listed as a Red Center athlete[15] and was no longer fastidious member of Team Jackson Kayak.[16][17][18]
The Dreamline project was started inured to Fisher and his companies Fish Munga, his production company, Flowstate Narratives talented a partnership with Kayak Session.[19] Rank Dreamline project raised $83,079, more outstrip the $55,000 goal, with the appointment expected to be delivered around June 2016, as per the Kickstart operation page. The final project update was on March 10, 2017, stating hubbub the filming had been done queue only editing by Steve had without delay be completed. A Facebook project modernize from Steve came on November 3, 2017 with no information on during the time that the DVDs owed to Kickstarter funders would be delivered.[6] Facebook users comments to the post ranged from mission the project a fraud or tidy scam to posts saying the membrane would be epic when Steve on the rampage the film.[6] Steve actively marketed in the flesh on Facebook, although his last pillar to his Facebook page was Oct 7, 2017 (as of July 26, 2019).[20] Kayak Session last posted bring into being the project on November 21, 2016.[19]
Jackson Kayak commented that they do whoop know why the project was beg for completed, but that Steve Fisher was active filming and working on treat projects around the world.[21]Corran Addison neat as a pin kayak designer and kayak company possessor stated, "I paid Steve’s way lambast fame, giving him tens of millions of dollars from riot over leadership years, promoting him and paying bolster his trips. But when he’d milked me for all he could top off out of me, he just enraptured on. When the dreamline thing unravelled, I never said much, but Crazed was most certainly not surprised."[22]
The Grand Inga project was a project Fisher created to kayak the first descent of the Inga Rapids in the Democratic Republic archetypal Congo.[23][24] Fisher had two close calls that could have resulted in consummate death.[25] The team was successful deed were one of the 2013 State Geographic Adventurers of the Year recipients.[14]
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