Ed Stafford - Walking the Amazon

Approx. Running Time: 2hours 20mins (inc. interval)

No-one had ever attempted it before and everyone said that it couldn’t be done…

When British explorer Ed Stafford set out to walk the entire length of the Amazon river in April 2008, he was roundly dismissed. Fixers in Brazil said he would probably die and refused to have anything to do with him. The expedition community said it was too far: that he would get ill or that the dense forest, biting insects, snakes, bogs, jaguars and fearful tribes would be too much. But he went anyway. Two and half years later, 18 months longer than he thought it would take, Ed finally reached the Atlantic Ocean in August 2010 and became the first known person to walk the 4000 miles length of the Amazon river from source to sea.

Apart from the physical exhaustion of walking through the dense, humid jungle, Ed encountered every conceivable danger along the way. From 18-foot long caimans, enormous anaconda snakes, deadly pit-vipers, illness, food shortages and the threat of drowning, Ed endured considerable hardship on his epic journey. But the most serious threat to his life came from a terrifying encounter with a particularly fierce indigenous tribe, who chased and captured Ed and his companion Cho, holding them at gun point until they were finally released after three long hours of negotiations.

In ‘Walking the Amazon’, Ed recounts his epic 860-day, 4000 mile journey with images and footage from his expedition. A fascinating insight into the Amazon rainforest as well as an extraordinary account of one man’s astonishing expedition of endurance.

"Stafford's endeavour is in the top league of expeditions past and present". Sir Ranulph Fiennes

“Like Livingstone and Scott before him, Stafford has completely bought into the stiff-upper-lip masochistic absurdity of his endeavor, and he’s proud of it.” Men’s Journal

For more information please visit www.walkingtheamazon.com

Minimum age recommendation: 10

Monday, June 13, 2011, 7:45:00 PM

Location: Queen's Theatre

All seats £13.50; Student £9.40; Young Person £8.40

 

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