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Walking the Amazon

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In April 2008 ex-soldier and explorer Ed Stafford and his friend Luke Collyer embarked on a colossal challenge: to walk the entire length of the Amazon, from its source in Southern Peru to its mouth on the Brazilian coast. They believed it would take them one year and would involve walking 4,000 miles. Two and a half years and 6,000 miles later, only Ed made it to the journey’s end on the Atlantic. Along the way he climbed an 18,000 foot mountain; filmed never-before-seen tribal ceremonies; ate cactus, tortoises and tapirs; was mistaken for a white man buying human organs; and met a remarkable local guide named Cho, who, after Luke’s departure, accompanied Ed on his mammoth trek. As well as filming all his own footage and demonstrating the skills needed for survival, ‘Walking the Amazon’ is a vivid portrait of a man driven to the edge of his own sanity, in his quest to join the ranks of the greatest explorers of all time.