Do you know how much perseverance it takes for a person to walk through the entire 7,000-kilometer Amazon?
In 2009, explorer Ed Stamford 'Hungry Ed' and guide Zio Sanchez completed the feat on 860 days on foot.
Head north from Peru's Pacific coast into Brazil and then east into the suffocating Amazon rainforest. After 18 months of difficult progress, Deye's "Ed Hungry" ushered in the second rainy season of the Amazon, the remaining mileage of the 632nd day is more than 2,000 kilometers, and the continuous heavy rain has raised the water level to a worrying level, and the river has risen by 30 centimeters in one hour.
Although they tried to leave the river as much as possible, the water depth here still reached about one meter. The inevitable factor finally came, and when De Ye was collecting firewood, he accidentally fell and directly cut off a piece of his little thumb, which looked like he had injured his tendon.
The severe pain made Ed scream with hunger, because there was no medical conditioning in the wild, he could only temporarily tie it with a bandage to avoid bleeding too much, but the wound was still at risk of infection without antibiotics, but he did not complain, but was glad that he did not lose his finger. A week later, they arrived in a small town,
The doctor who helped him treat the wound also found a rupture on Deye's arm. It doesn't seem like a big problem, but it's actually a parasitic disease that devours the flesh.
In order to avoid being damaged in the near future, Deye's "Ed Hungry" still chose a course of medicine. But two weeks later, his physical condition began to deteriorate again, there was a swollen pustule in his hand joint, and De Ye thought that if he wanted to continue to move forward, he must pull out the liquid inside.
。 At this moment, De ye also realized that two years had passed, and his body was beginning to be on the verge of collapse, accompanied by a deterioration of psychological conditions. If the journey ahead is pleasant, it is now a tormenting challenge, which destroys not only the human body, but also the will. Day 645 Today is Christmas 2009, and it is also the second Christmas that Deye has spent on Amazon, and a downpour combined with the joy of the festival has dispelled their low mood. What's even happier is that Zio brought back a lot of piranhas,
The two looked at each other and smiled, thinking that life was not so bad. On the 686th day, with 1828 kilometers left, Dedey left the flooded jungle and arrived at the city of Manaus, the first modern city they encountered.
The perilous Amazon River is transformed here into a 30-kilometer-wide industrial highway, and they must cross the river to reach a higher and stronger other side. They saw the most magical picture of the journey, where two different tributaries of the Amazon converge but did not merge together to form a clear and spectacular scene.
Across the river, the two re-enter the deep forest, but Deye's "Ed Hungry" immediately receives a gift from nature. A larvae of a polychaet is parasitic on his head, and without medicine, Deye can only apply glue to it to suffocate the larvae.
On the 828th day, with 399 kilometers remaining, De Ye and Qi Ao finally left the jungle and entered the last part of the journey. This is the agricultural heartland of Brazil, where the Amazon rainforest has been razed to the ground. Go down this dirt road, and Deyo will be the first man to walk through the Amazon.
Now they travel an average of 40 kilometers a day. De ye planned to complete the challenge within ten days and informed the world of the time to reach the finish line. The news soon spread internationally, and De ye found a shorter shortcut on the map, but this shortcut was full of dense thorns, and the speed of progress was greatly slowed down at this time. They had only advanced ten kilometers in two days, their arms littered with weeds.
Fortunately, two days later they were back on the road, and on the 860th day they reached the Atlantic coast, 500 meters ahead of them. De Ye rushed to the sea with Zio,
The two clasped their hands and declared the challenge successful. At this moment, it was all over, and it took two and a half years to hike through 7,000 kilometers of the Amazon. Deye's eyes were full of tears, and the hardships of this road may only be known to the guide Zio next to him. The expedition also changed the life of Qi'ao, and after 860 days of trekking, Deye's name was written into the Guinness Book of World Records, and he was the first man in history to complete the entire Amazon.