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Ed's Frog MessageBlog Archive17th June 2010 - Ricky Gervais and the Bible... 20th May 2010 - Caught with our pants down 15th April 2010 - How dangerous are jaguars really? 18th March 2010 - A Hungry Anaconda? 4th March 2010 - Ed's Rotten Arm 18th February 2010 - Paddling across the 'Meeting of the Waters' 4th February 2010 - Damming the Amazon 21st January 2010 - Dedication 7th January 2010 - Swamp Donkey 17th December 2009 - A Little Bit Scared 3rd December 2009 - Scratched and Confused 19th November 2009 - Oil Under the Jungle 29th October 2009 - Watch out for the CAIMAN! 15th October 2009 - On our own in the jungle 1st October 2009 - Trench Warfare 17th September 2009 - The Island of Food 3rd September 2009 - Food Dreams 27th August 2009 - Heavy packs and the search for fish
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The Story So Far
Amazingly no one has ever walked the length of the Amazon River. Ever. The Amazon is the largest river in the world and flows through the largest rainforest in the world. Ed Stafford started his walk in April 2008 from the west coast of Peru on the Pacific coast. He walked up the deepest canyon in the world to get to the mountain from which the Amazon starts. The mountain is called Nevado Mismi and is in the Andes mountains. From the top he knew he had to follow the river for the next two years of his life. Over 4,000 miles lay ahead of him as he started walking - further than the distance to the centre of the Earth. Ed has had to deal with some dangerous things along the way: snakes, jaguars and biting ants all live in the Amazon. He has also had to make friends with local people who had never seen an English person before and explain to them he was friendly and would do them no harm. The Amazon jungle is flooded for many months of the year and Ed is often walking half underwater! Ed is now in Brazil. His journey is half complete and he has just over a year to go before he hopes to arrive at the mouth of the Amazon. Will he make it? Nobody knows - but you can follow his incredible adventure here with new updates from Ed on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month, 4pm UK time. You can also send in your questions for Ed about his trip and living in the jungle to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it – Ed will answer a “question of the week” by video. If you want to find out more about Ed's Amazon adventure, visit www.walkingtheamazon.com. |
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Ed
Stafford is an explorer. Like Captain Scott of the Antarctic and Sir
Ranulph Fiennes before him, he has a passion for discovering and
learning about the vast planet that we all live on. Today, so many of
the great expeditions have already been done by explorers of the past.
There are no longer many things that people can do and say, "I was the
first person in the world to do that!" 
Ed
started running expeditions after retiring from the British Army as a
captain in 2002 and has led remote expeditions all over the world. He
is inspired by explorers such as Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Borge Ousland and
Mike Horn - all of whom have accomplished outstanding feats of human
endeavour and his passion lies in pushing himself to achieve feats that
others may not believe are possible. Today, so many of the great
expeditions have already been done by explorers of the past. There are
no longer many things that people can do and say, "I was the first
person in the world to do that!" 