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  • Ed Stafford became the first man to walk the length of the Amazon river in South America from the source to the sea. He walked for:

    860 days

    He started on 2nd April 2008 and finished in August 2010. No-one had ever done what he attempted.

    • Team: Ed Stafford and Gadiel "Cho" Sanchez Rivera
    • Guides: None
    • Location: The Atlantic Ocean!!!!
    • Latitude: -0.58360
    • Longitude: -47.65206
    • Morale: 10/10 the best day of my life so far. Cho's happy too!
  • Archive for February 10

  • 25th Feb A Squatter’s LifeSee stats
    • Latitude: -2.87485
    • Longitude: -59.38432
    • Location: Km 164, AM010, Amazonas, Brazil
    • Morale: 7/10 Totally fine - but yearning for the jungle again.

    …We stayed the night in a shed that smelt like the outbuilding, just away from school, where boys used to go to smoke and urinate…

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  • 18th Feb Manicure and shampoo Cho?See stats
    • Latitude: -3.05853
    • Longitude: -59.94857
    • Guides: None
    • Morale: Last day in Manaus
    • Morale: 8/10 We can sniff the sea air! (ish)

    Manaus is a stubborn chip fat stain on your wife’s best Nepalese pashmina…

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  • 11th Feb The Line of Least ResistanceSee stats
    • Latitude: -3.56383
    • Longitude: -60.18306
    • Location: Km 76, BR317, Amazonas, Brazil
    • Guides: Nope
    • Morale: 7/10 - road walking is just a bit dull...

    For 95% of the past seven or eight months in Brazil Cho and I haven’t seen many roads. We haven’t even seen many paths for that matter. Our normal routine has us both rotating half hour shifts at the front with a machete in hand cutting an opening: the line of least resistance through the [...]

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  • 4th Feb Damming the AmazonSee stats
    • Location: Itapiranga
    • Morale: n/a

    Walking the Amazon has always been to designed to “draw attention to the complexities of the Amazon rainforest” and this week´s news is pertinant to the whole Amazon conservation debate. Whilst Cho and I have been resting and repairing our kit in Itapiranga, Brazil’s government has granted an environmental licence for the construction of a [...]

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