In the late 1980s, two explorers paddled the full length of the Amazon after walking its first 200 miles; they reached the Atlantic after a 4,200-mile journey

In the late 1980s, two explorers paddled the full length of the Amazon after walking its first 200 miles; they reached the Atlantic after a 4,200-mile journey

In the late 1980s, Polish explorer Piotr Chmielinski and American writer Joe Kane became the first people to paddle the full length of the Amazon from its source area to the Atlantic Ocean. Kane first walked 200 miles before joining the paddling journey.