Tristan Jones On Adventuring After the Loss of His Leg.
Adventurer and author Tristan Jones. Tristan Jones is almost certainly the most intrepid sailor alive. At last count he's journeyed more than 450-thousand miles in small boats. That includes 20 crossings of the Atlantic, and 3 and a half circumnavigations. Many of those miles were racked up during the course of exceedingly dangerous, some would say foolhardy, adventures. Jones tried to sail as close as possible to the North Pole, and as a result spent a year frozen in the Arctic ice pack. When he set out to sail from Lake Titicaca to the mouth of the Amazon, he ended up fighting border guards, hunger, leeches, and hitherto impenetrable jungle. After losing a leg to an old World War two injury, Jones has continued to travel, and he now works with disabled kids throughout the world. (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)
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