STRANDED AND ALONE: AMAZON EXPLORER ED STAFFORD SURVIVES 60 DAYS ON HIS OWN ON A DESERT ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC (The Mail Online)
Ed Stafford, a former British army captain, went into the Peruvian jungle in April 2008.
Eight hundred and sixty days later he came out on the other side of South America having become the first person to achieve the ‘impossible’ by walking the length of the Amazon.
It was an endeavour described by Sir Ranulph Fiennes as ‘truly extraordinary’ and ‘in the top league of expeditions past and present’.
Over the course of 6,000 miles Stafford faced starvation, was bitten by scorpions and mosquitoes, accused of murder and threatened and imprisoned by machete-wielding tribesmen.
But Stafford wanted to do something else. It tuns out he wanted to try and survive on an uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for 60 days with nothing other than a camera for company – not even clothes.
This is his story.
