Imagine swimming the length of the Amazon - all 5268 kilometers of it!
14/07/08 19:20
That's exactly what Martin Strel did. He completed his
epic Amazon river swim on April 7th, 2007, all the way
from Atalaya (Peru) to the Atlantic Ocean at Belém
(Brazil). He was struggling the river for 66 days for
more than 10 hours a day and totally swam 5268 kms or
3274 miles. He became a wordwide hero and wrote a book
about his experiences. Martin has been swimming
ultra-marathons and raising an important awareness of
clean waters for many years. He has dedicated several
swims to the protection of environmental resources.
The Amazon is known as the largest, longest and
the most dangerous river in the world. Martin decided
to risk his life and made history. For him this was a
story of “Achieving the Impossible”. Martin wanted to
show the world that people can achieve their dreams and
goals with hard work and persistence. He also called
the attention to the continued deforestation of the
Amazon rainforest and river pollution.
Guinness Book record entry is in progress. The whole world was following this amazing historical event, American filmmakers are producing a documentary called Big River Man and the book is going to be released worldwide. I intend to have it as part of my forthcoming online Bookstore which should be going live by around 11th August. You can read more about Martin's incredible swim on his website. He seems to specialise in amazing swims and more, worth checking out.
Guinness Book record entry is in progress. The whole world was following this amazing historical event, American filmmakers are producing a documentary called Big River Man and the book is going to be released worldwide. I intend to have it as part of my forthcoming online Bookstore which should be going live by around 11th August. You can read more about Martin's incredible swim on his website. He seems to specialise in amazing swims and more, worth checking out.
Launch of this News section of the site and the new Trails Newsletter
05/07/08 20:11 Filed in: Journal
It signals the start of a lot of writing ahead, not
only is this News section going live today but there is
a new Trails Newsletter being published every 6 weeks.
The first edition of the Trails Newsletter will be on
1st August 2008. If you want to be one of the first to
get it hot from the digital presses you can sign up for
your copy of the free Trails
Newsletter here. It will be published
regularly every 6 weeks and sent out to you by
email. At that rate it won't overload your
mailbox.
It's going to be packed full of interesting stuff about the Amazon Rainforest, the Andes, Vision Quests, Shamans and Plant Diets and lots more besides. If you haven't already spotted it there's also the new Trails Blog Website which will cover anything we might have missed in the above.
Whew! It's going to be a busy year ahead on the keyboard.
Barry
It's going to be packed full of interesting stuff about the Amazon Rainforest, the Andes, Vision Quests, Shamans and Plant Diets and lots more besides. If you haven't already spotted it there's also the new Trails Blog Website which will cover anything we might have missed in the above.
Whew! It's going to be a busy year ahead on the keyboard.
Barry