Thursday, July 29, 2010

Nasu

Ed Stafford, 34, from Leicestershire, central England, has been walking the length Amazon River since April 2, 2008, to raise awareness of the region. he began his trek at the souce of the river in Peru, encountering pit vipers, electric eels, anaconda, mosquitoes and scorpions. He was in joined in July 2008 by Gadiel "Cho" Sanchez Rivera. The pair are due to reach the shores of the Atlantic on August 9. (CNN July28)