Ed Stafford Wins European Adventurer Of The Year Award

A British explorer who walked along the entire length of the Amazon River has been ‎honored by bestowing the title of ‘European Adventurer of the Year’.‎

Ed Stafford, 35, Former Army officer finally reached the mouth of the Amazon river in ‎Brazil in August last year, after 859 days of grueling and painstaking efforts, from the ‎day he set off in his path following the Amazon River from the point of the river’s origin, ‎located high in the mountains of Peru.‎

All along the way he encountered poisonous snakes, electric eels and piranhas, and other ‎creepers, creatures and insects. He was wrongly accused of murder and chased by local ‎tribesmen armed with shotguns and bows and arrows.‎

Ed Stafford, hailing from Mowsley in Leicestershire, was facilitated with the award at a ‎function organized in his honor at the Wilderness Fair in Stockholm.‎

Mr.Ed Staford had covered more than 6,700 kilo-meters from the Peruvian Andes across ‎Colombia and into Brazil and had provided an insight into the lives of the local people in the ‎endangered rain-forest. The expedition was peculiar in a way that in walking the length of ‎the Amazon river, Ed Staford had shared his exciting experiences and story online, ‎creating an awareness about Amazon itself. This award was also a tribute to all those ‎people who followed Ed’s adventures online, and those who had sent messages of ‎support and money for the charities.‎