Five Finger Rapids

Four islands of composite rock divide the river into five narrow channels of which only the eastern is passable.

Indigenous Canadians called the Five Finger Rapids "Tthi-cho Nadezhe," or "big rocks standing up.

[2] Writer and artist Tappan Adney described them:[3] "The opening is about one hundred feet wide, with vertical walls, through which the river drops a couple of feet, the waves rising angrily in a return curl, then dancing on in rapidly diminishing chops until lost in the swift current below.

We turn our prow squarely for the middle of the cleft; a drop, a smash, a few quarts of water over the sides, and we are shot through into the fast current, without even looking back."

Humphrey's canoe tips while passing through the rapids during his four-year journey around the world by bike.