For a man that gave away all his material wealth, explorer Mike Horn is still incredibly rich if you consider everything he has experienced since.
Who the hell is Mike Horn? – that would probably be the same question you would be asking, if you got an invitation to spend a couple of hours on a yacht with this intrepid explorer. Yet, as I stand aboard the Pangaea off the coast of Port Dickson, with the wind whipping saltwater into my face, listening to him speak about his adventures, another question replaces the former – how the hell could anyone not know Mike Horn?
If you do a quick Google search on the man, you’ll see why some have pegged him as the world’s greatest modern-day explorer. His list of accomplishments looks similar to that of Marco Polo, Captain James Cook and Sir Edmund Hillary, combined!
He has swum the entire length of the Amazon (using a hydrospeed), hunting for food to survive and resting along dangerous riverbanks at night. He was the first man to circumnavigate the globe around the equator, alone and without motorised transport. He was the first human being to complete a 20,000km journey circumnavigating the Arctic Circle using only a boat (also unmotorised), kayak, ski kite and on foot, which lasted two years; and he reached two peaks higher than 8,000m in the Himalayan mountains without the use of any oxygen.
This story is from the October 2018 edition of The PEAK Singapore.
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