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Duncan 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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Rumble In The Jungle
Still Waters Run Deep
Eyes Of The Jaguar
Jungle all the way
The Law of the Jungle
Rivers in the Sky
To the Brim

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Attempting a world first Ascent of the Amazon river walking & swimming SEA to Source. Be good to have your company. Tag along & I will carry you-in my phone!

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Update. Heading to Requena on the eastern bank after swimming across the Maranon then the Ucayali river & traversing the impossible terrain in between a few days ago. Close encounters with Dolphins lg venomos snakes & Caiman. #Amazon

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Rio Maranon swim🏊 in the can! New guide Jorde seems to have a knack for filming📽. Now 9 km of Caiman inhabited islands to cross to get to the Rio Ucayali.
Photo, Jorde sampling the @WatertoGoUK filtered Maranon river water this morning. #Amazon

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“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.” —Basavanna.

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Been using the incredible @WatertoGoUK bottles on this last leg. As mentioned in my latest blog. It's also proved invaluable in towns, as i don't need to buy single use plastic bottles, especially useful in remote communities where the river/lake water can be unsafe to drink.

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I have been using the amazing @fatmap to study the terrain and plot my route even when in the jungle. As mentioned in my latest blog. Thank you FatMap!

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Rumble In The Jungle August 1, 2019
Still Waters Run Deep April 18, 2019
Eyes Of The Jaguar February 17, 2019
Jungle all the way December 22, 2018
The Law of the Jungle September 7, 2018

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