Slovenian man swims the Amazon

Posted by Aleki in World Records on April 9, 2007 at 3:36 am


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After 9 weeks and 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, Martin Strel, a 52-year-old Slovenian, successfully completed a swim down the Amazon River.

That’s almost as long as the drive from Miami to Seattle.

It’s a good thing it wasn’t the Congo River.

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