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Nat Geo People’s Adventurer of 2015

02.03.15

Nat Geo People’s Adventurer of 2015

Adventurer of the week

Nat Geo People’s Adventurer of 2015
Nat Geo People’s Adventurer of 2015

“If 67 years young can do it, you can do it, too.” — Aleksander Doba

At 67 years old, a Polish kayaker completes the longest open-water kayaking expedition across the Atlantic in history. At 67 years old, the Polish adventurer made the longest open-water kayak crossing of the Atlantic in history. Using just his arm strength and considerable willpower, Doba paddled 7,700 miles in his 23-foot kayak, OLO, departing in October 2013 from Lisbon and arriving six months later in Florida. The retired mechanical engineer, now 68, is the only person to kayak across the Atlantic, continent-to-continent, alone, unassisted, and under his own power.

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Photography. Nicola Muirhead

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