The man who went down the Amazon …

First, the big question is "Who Is Ed Stafford" (well, since he has an English name, we ask the question in English). So Ed, 34, British, is the first man to have walked the entire length of the Amazon, a journey of 6,500 km over 2 years (860 days exactly)…

But Why? Just for glory... that's what the AFP dispatch says... but actually not really, well I think he's quite megalomaniacal but he still has a foundation on the side...
The human adventure is immense nonetheless because he started from the summit of Nevado Mismi, in Peru, at the source of the river, the adventurer was joined after five months by a Peruvian companion and a real friendship developed...
The BBC even put up an interactive map to better recount his adventure...

The foundation, because in the end no one talks about it (I don't understand why) isn't it the most interesting thing about this adventure? It's Rainforest Concern (a foundation for forest preservation) at the same time when you spend more than two years in the forest you probably realize that something needs to be done... in Peru, the country of our comforters, action is being taken for Polylepis trees which grow very slowly...

Yes, I still think it's a shame that everything is focused on Ed's "pointless" record and not on deforestation... perhaps in terms of communication it's more marketable to say that you were chased by tribes and attacked by animals than to say this journey has an ecological purpose like collective awareness of deforestation or river pollution...

++ Walking The Amazon
++ Rainforest Concern