British explorer becomes first person to travel the length of an uncharted Amazon river

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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.

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00:00Transcribed by ESO, translated by —

00:30And the last was this, and it's just this.

00:33It's a whole other story.

00:37And my toys are back.

00:42I think that one was better.

00:45It's my first scorpion sting.

00:47Ha ha ha ha.

00:48And we finished.

00:49We've done it.

00:51We've achieved a world's first record.

00:54That was full on.

00:56Oh wow.

00:5837 days, 34 days without seeing a single person.

01:02We were bitten.

01:03We were stung.

01:04We had infections.

01:05I lost three toenails.

01:08We didn't make the second mountain.

01:10We had ups and downs.

01:13We, my God, went on today for 80 kilometers.

01:17We kayaked for all the way through the day,

01:20through the night, and through the following day.

01:22And as a team, we've stuck the course,

01:26and we've completed a new Guinness World First record

01:31here in Suriname, as first to kayak the Kopenham River

01:35from source to sea.

01:37And it's been absolutely unbelievable.

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