Ed Stafford has been walking beside the Amazon River for 524 days, but he’s still a long way from reaching the end and his goal of becoming the first person to walk the length of the world’s largest river.
A 33-year-old former British Army captain who looks the part - tall with a stocky build [...]
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Featured Expeditions - Ed Stafford - first to walk the Amazon River
September 8th, 2009 3 Comments
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Featured Expeditions - Zac Sunderland – Youngest to Sail Around the World Solo
August 10th, 2009 1 Comment
Back in the late 1960s Robin Lee Graham became the youngest to sail around the world in a journey famously recorded in the book “Dove”. Many cruising sailors (including myself) were inspired to head out to sea after reading the enchanting tale of Graham’s five-year voyage.
Since then Robin Lee Graham’s record has been broken by [...]
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Featured Expeditions: Roz Savage rows across the Pacific
June 3rd, 2009 No Comments
Roz Savage is en route to becoming the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean. She left Hawaii on May 25th and has rowed 400 km towards the tiny island of Tuvalu, still some 3,700 km away. This is the second leg of her three-part, 13,000 km journey that began in the USA [...]
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Canadian Sam Whittingham Shatters Speed Record
May 1st, 2009 2 Comments
Of the 100 billion or so humans that have ever existed there is only one that has travelled faster than 130 km per hour using only his muscles. Canadian Sam Whittingham of Quadra Island, BC has propelled himself faster than any Olympic athlete or Tour de France hero in his custom-made bullet-shaped recumbent bicycle. His [...]
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Featured Expeditions: Matt Hill and Stephanie Tait on a year long run
April 1st, 2009 No Comments
How would you like to run a marathon, and then wake up the next morning and do it again? Now imagine doing that for a year.
Vancouverites Matt Hill and Stephanie Tait are running 18,000 km through Canada and the USA. (Courtesy of Run For One Planet)
Matt Hill and Stephanie Tait are two Canadians doing just [...]
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