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Pip Stewart: ‘Kayaking the Essequibo will be a world first’

January 16, 2018 by badassery No Comments

Photo Credit: John Oakley

Next month journalist and adventurer, Pip Stewart, will embark on a world-first descent of South America’s third largest river, the Essequibo River, from source to sea via kayak, alongside fellow expedition adventurers, Laura Bingham and Ness Knight. Not a journey to be underestimated, this challenge will take the trio on remote river passes, rapids and waterfalls as they paddle its 1014km length from southern Guyana to the Atlantic ocean.

I caught up with Pip, whose previous adventures include cycling 10,000 miles from Malaysia to London, to get the details.

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