860 days to walk the Amazon

[Yorkshire Boy]

An amazing journey by an ex-British army captain.

Living off piranha, turtles, monkey etc...evading angry tribesmen...he joins the pantheon of great British adventurers and explorers.

I can't wait to read his book when he writes it!

http://www.walkingtheamazon.com/

 

[grunt soldier]

thats some serious bushcraft/living right there. 860 days is a very long time and i agree a book would be awesome

 

[JohnWayne360]

I wish they made a documentary to go along with it. Looks interesting.

 

[Yorkshire Boy]

I wish they made a documentary to go along with it. Looks interesting.

If you look on the top bar of his site you'll see videos!

Amazingly he took his Mac computer along with him and it survived all that time in the jungle, he uploaded videos along the way, 104 of them!

http://www.vimeo.com/walkingtheamazon/videos

His last day he walked 85km in 21hrs!

 

[DocGP]

HE is one serious Hoss if he can evade the indiginous (sp?) people!! Those guys are some serious trackers and outdoors experts (true experts, they don't post about it, they live it).

Interested to watch the videos


Doc

 

[JimSocks]

in the newspaper article i read, the tribes people caught & let him go after he told them what he was doing.

 

[TheGame]

That is amazing. Thanks for posting :thumbup:

 

[JCK]

He must have his backpacking/hiking system very very efficient, of course he probably has quite alot of skill to go with it, but it would be interesting hearing what he took, and him providing some commentary on his gear.

about his Mac, how many spare batteries do you think he would have needed for 860 days? I'd imagine quite a few

 

[Yorkshire Boy]

He must have his backpacking/hiking system very very efficient, of course he probably has quite alot of skill to go with it, but it would be interesting hearing what he took, and him providing some commentary on his gear.

about his Mac, how many spare batteries do you think he would have needed for 860 days? I'd imagine quite a few

3 batteries, he charged them at various towns. In his videos he says to some Scottish primary school kids 11-, that solar powered gear wasn't so good in the jungle.

 

[Aubrey]

Similar trip by Mike Horn ..... ..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oo3tiEQZ7g as part of a larger goal ....The Latitude Zero Expedition.

 

[Joezilla]

awesome. I saw this when the guy first started. pretty sweet stuff. Check out "swimming the amazon" and "tropical frontier"

 

[DennisStrickland]

have'nt seen anything this impressive since Kon Tiki with thor heykedahl. dennis