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A leading British explorer has become the first person ever to travel the length of an uncharted Amazon river.
Adventurous Ash Dykes, 33, battled sickness and hallucinations to finish his epic 37-day trip by reaching the mouth of the Coppename River in Suriname, South America.
The extreme athlete and his teammates Jacob Hudson, Dick Lock and Matt Wallace, kayaked continuously for the final three days and nights to complete the mission.
And after suffering from sleep deprivation, infections and malnutrition, they saw strange visions before finally getting to the Atlantic Ocean.
A leading British explorer has become the first person ever to travel the length of an uncharted Amazon river.
Adventurous Ash Dykes, 33, battled sickness and hallucinations to finish his epic 37-day trip by reaching the mouth of the Coppename River in Suriname, South America.
The extreme athlete and his teammates Jacob Hudson, Dick Lock and Matt Wallace, kayaked continuously for the final three days and nights to complete the mission.
And after suffering from sleep deprivation, infections and malnutrition, they saw strange visions before finally getting to the Atlantic Ocean.
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00:30How awesome is this? There was just this bazillion wandering spider in my toiletry bag which
00:42is drop for drop the most venomous spider on the planet. Oh that's the worst thing I've ever had.
00:47What's in your glove? I have no idea but something's not happy with me.
00:58That's the golden rule of the jungle always shake out your boots and your gloves and I just got
01:04lazy and I put my hand in the glove and got a really really bad sting. I have a feeling it's gonna be a
01:12scorpion or something inside.
01:15That's the bad side of the day man. Holy shit that is so much worse than a bullet ant. Not good.
01:28Found it. Is it deducive? Do you like the pain better or worse? Better. It's my first scorpion sting.
01:40Yeah the most venomous one here.
01:48And we finished. We've done it. We've achieved a world's first record. That was full on. I've got so much sweat in my eyes.
01:59And oh wow. 37 days, 34 days without seeing a single person. We were bitten. We were stung. We had infections.
02:09I lost three toenails. We didn't make the second mountain. We had ups and downs. We, oh my god, went on
02:20today for 80 kilometers we kayaked for all the way through the day, through the night and through the following day.
02:27And as a team we've stuck the course and we've completed a new Guinness world first record here in Suriname.
02:37As first to kayak the Kopenham River from source to sea. And it's been absolutely unbelievable.