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| First to walk the Amazon | Former soldier becomes first to walk the Amazon
Updated Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:48am AEST, ABC and Reuters Ed Stafford, a 34-year-old from Leicestershire, England, dived into the Atlantic Ocean after taking 859 days to walk the length of the world's second-longest river, starting at the peak of Mount Mismi in Peru in April 2008. "It's just phenomenal to be here at the end of the journey after two-and-a-half years slogging our way through the jungle," he said after arriving at the beach about 150 kilometres north-east of the Brazilian city of Belem. |
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