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Pete Casey will be fol­low­ing the mighty Ama­zon river in the most ambi­tious and inti­mate way pos­si­ble: walk­ing, some­times swim­ming and prob­a­bly at times crawl­ing every inch of the Ama­zon from sea to source, and in the process inter­act­ing with its peo­ple and its wildlife face to face at ground level.

He will use social media via satel­lite com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nol­ogy to share the adven­ture with peo­ple inter­ested in fol­low­ing the jour­ney across one of the most vast and bio diverse land­scapes on Earth.

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  • Alas De Esperanza – Wings Of Hope
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A lapsed moratorium protecting the Amazon river dolphin is up for renewal, but the Bolsonaro administration has dela...

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“Soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no life” ~ Wendell Berry

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Alas De Esperanza – Wings Of Hope

February 17, 2021 by Pete

Blogs sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski Canoandes.org   First and foremost, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has donated via Paypal or to the Fundrazr campaign to keep the expedition going. I realise I probably couldn’t have chosen a worse time to beg for money, post-Christmas and in the grip of … Read more »

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The Elixir Of Life

December 5, 2020 by Pete

Blogs sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski Canoandes.org   I can’t express in words how relieved Pizarro and I were to finally arrive safe and sound in Pucallpa almost 8 months later than expected. The Covid pandemic and lockdown in Peru had made us prisoners of the forest, effectively, unable to move from community to community, and therefore … Read more »

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Q&A for National Geographic Poland

October 31, 2020 by Clive Maguire

Blogs sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski Canoandes.org   I have not been able to blog for some time now, so I would like to share a copy of the Q&A I did during lockdown via Garmin Inreach messages earlier this year with Piotr Chmielinski for an article in Nat Geo Poland. Piotr was the first person to complete … Read more »

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Marooned In The Amazon

May 8, 2020 by Pete

Blogs sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski Canoandes.org This blog has been painstakingly recreated by a friend from 74 separate satellite text messages. Apologies for the lack of new photos – although I have many, I can only send text. UPDATE November 2020 i have now added some photos to this blog Now, where to start… Well, so … Read more »

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Billion-Star Accommodation

December 20, 2019 by Pete

Blogs sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski Canoandes.org   Every delay in this journey leaves me feeling anxious. I left Requena knowing that I had to reach Pucallpa before the rivers flooded again. I could not have known that the flood would come early, leaving me a long way from Pucallpa and having to go further inland now … Read more »

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Guardians Of The Forest

September 8, 2019 by Pete

The crossing Walking (& swimming) from Nauta to Requena had been playing on my mind for months. I just could not see a way across, and even at low water the route seemed impossible. I met Jorge, an out of work maths teacher, when I was in Nauta standing on the bank of the Marañón river … Read more »

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Rumble In The Jungle

August 1, 2019 by Pete

As Diego and I headed into the low-lying, tangled jungle and said our goodbyes to the people of the tiny community on the Rio Orosa, our packs seemed heavier than ever. We were carrying two weeks of  food supplies, and the pack straps were already digging into my shoulders. With the oppressive heat and humidity, … Read more »

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Still Waters Run Deep

April 18, 2019 by Pete

We were lucky it was raining… It was nearing 3pm, and I was looking for a suitable place to make camp. Diego and I, and Diego’s young son-in-law Liacon, had been walking through the heavy rain for the last few hours. We climbed a steep forested bank, cutting vigorously to reach the top, all the … Read more »

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Eyes Of The Jaguar

February 17, 2019 by Pete

Diego and I are currently at a large community only a few weeks walk (and swim!) away from the biggest city in the Peruvian Amazon, Iquitos. We have found WiFi in a school that is a mere hour’s boat ride downriver in Yanashi, where I had planned to re-supply food and rest a day or two. Diego … Read more »

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Jungle all the way

December 22, 2018 by Pete

Apologies for the big gap since my last blog. All the goings-on over the last few months are far too numerous to mention in detail, but here`s a quick overview to give you some idea. The main task was to complete the final leg of the Brazilian Amazon from the large Ticuna community of Feijoal, … Read more »

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