The slide is so dangerous all riders are required to wear a life jacket before taking the plunge. But Hess nearly got done in by another obstacle—the head-jarring speed bumps at the slide’s lift.

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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 ...

Schlitterbahn co-owner Jeff Henry struck on the idea some time around 2012: His Texas company would build a water slide zipping riders from a height nobody had gone to before. The notion looked ...