I have never, not once, turned down an opportunity to go on a water slide. They are one of life’s true simple pleasures. I’ve never been worried they were too fast, too dangerous, or too scary. But ...

From the moment that Jeff Henry, owner of Schlitterbahn Waterparks in Kansas City, Kansas, looked at his partner John Schooley and told him that he wanted to build the world's tallest water slide, the ...