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Personal Life
• Raised in Leicestershire
• Cub and a Scout
• expedition leader
• Married to Amanda Rica Barclay
Gayathri R Iyyer, MA.HRM,D.G.Vaishnav College
The Amazon Expedition
• began with a friend, Luke Collyer, on 2 April 2008• Collyer left in three months• on the southern coast of Peru• On 09 Aug, 2009, became the first person on
earth to walk the length of AmAzOn river• completed the journey with Gadiel "Cho" Sanchez
Rivera.
Gayathri R Iyyer, MA.HRM,D.G.Vaishnav College
The Amazon River
• Largest River in the world• South America• Water Discharge of 209,000 cubic meters per
second• Second Longest River in the world• Largest Drainage about 7,050,000 square
kilometres• The width is between 1.6 and 10 kilometres
expands to 48 kilometres in the wet season
• Lengths about 6,992 kmGayathri R Iyyer, MA.HRM,D.G.Vaishnav
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Media
• May, 2009- appeared on the cover of the Geographical Magazine.
• April 2010, Diane Sawyer’s ABC News “Person of the Week”
• 2011, TV series walking the amazon on Channel 5
• 2012, filmed a three part survival experiment for Discovery Channel
Gayathri R Iyyer, MA.HRM,D.G.Vaishnav College
Media
• 2013, “Ed Stafford- Naked and Moroned” and “Naked Castaway” aired in Discovery channel
• Established Face of Discovery.
• Self filmed series “Marooned”
• Aug, 2009, started writing a biweekly blog for the Prince’s rainforest project
Gayathri R Iyyer, MA.HRM,D.G.Vaishnav College
Awards and Achievements
• Described "truly extraordinary...in the top league of expeditions past and present“ by Sir RanulphFiennes
• National Geographic adventurer of the year 2010
• European adventurer of the year 2011
• Guinness world records in 2011
• Guinness book of world records in 2012
• Mungo park medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 2011
Gayathri R Iyyer, MA.HRM,D.G.Vaishnav College
Ed, A Role Model
• His adventurous attitude to explore new things
• Patience to achieve his goal
• The drive he had in himself that made him succeed in his task
• Confidence that he never did quit like his friend who left in three months
• His thirst to adventure
Gayathri R Iyyer, MA.HRM,D.G.Vaishnav College