A SLOVENIAN adventurer completed his swim of the entire 5265km Amazon River - a 65-day odyssey during which he battled exhaustion and delirium while avoiding flesh-eating piranhas and the dreaded bloodsucking toothpick fish.
‘’He’s hit point zero,'’ Martin’s son and project co-ordinator Borut said. In 2000, Strel swam Europe’s 3004km Danube River, and then broke that record two years later when he swam 3797km down the Mississippi in the US. And in 2004, he set a new world record after swimming 4003km along China’s Yangtze River.
Strel’s health worsened on Thursday evening as he struggled with dizziness, vertigo, high blood pressure, diarrhoea, nausea and delirium. But despite having trouble standing and being ordered not to swim by his doctor, he insisted on night swimming to finish the course. Speaking by satellite phone during a break aboard his support vessel on Thurdsay, Strel said the journey became tougher as he approached Belem…. (courtesy of The Courier Mail)
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