Ed StaffordThe Amazing man to cross the

amazing river Gayathri R Iyyer, MA.HRM,D.G.Vaishnav

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An Overview

Gayathri R Iyyer, MA.HRM,D.G.Vaishnav College

Personal Life

• Raised in Leicestershire

• Cub and a Scout

• expedition leader

• Married to Amanda Rica Barclay

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The Amazon Expedition

• began with a friend, Luke Collyer, on 2 April 2008• Collyer left in three months• on the southern coast of Peru• On 09 Aug, 2009, became the first person on

earth to walk the length of AmAzOn river• completed the journey with Gadiel "Cho" Sanchez

Rivera.

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Luke Collyer

Gadiel "Cho" Sanchez Rivera

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The Amazon River

• Largest River in the world• South America• Water Discharge of 209,000 cubic meters per

second• Second Longest River in the world• Largest Drainage about 7,050,000 square

kilometres• The width is between 1.6 and 10 kilometres

expands to 48 kilometres in the wet season

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Media

• May, 2009- appeared on the cover of the Geographical Magazine.

• April 2010, Diane Sawyer’s ABC News “Person of the Week”

• 2011, TV series walking the amazon on Channel 5

• 2012, filmed a three part survival experiment for Discovery Channel

Gayathri R Iyyer, MA.HRM,D.G.Vaishnav College

Media

• 2013, “Ed Stafford- Naked and Moroned” and “Naked Castaway” aired in Discovery channel

• Established Face of Discovery.

• Self filmed series “Marooned”

• Aug, 2009, started writing a biweekly blog for the Prince’s rainforest project

Gayathri R Iyyer, MA.HRM,D.G.Vaishnav College

Awards and Achievements

• Described "truly extraordinary...in the top league of expeditions past and present“ by Sir RanulphFiennes

• National Geographic adventurer of the year 2010

• European adventurer of the year 2011

• Guinness world records in 2011

• Guinness book of world records in 2012

• Mungo park medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 2011

Gayathri R Iyyer, MA.HRM,D.G.Vaishnav College

Ed, A Role Model

• His adventurous attitude to explore new things

• Patience to achieve his goal

• The drive he had in himself that made him succeed in his task

• Confidence that he never did quit like his friend who left in three months

• His thirst to adventure

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The TEDx Talk

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