Colin Angus (explorer)

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Colin Angus is a Canadian author and adventurer who is best known for being the first person to make a self-propelled global circumnavigation. This status is questioned as his circumnavigation was not anti-podal. Records established in that expedition with Julie Wafaei include the first rowboat crossing of the Atlantic Ocean from mainland Europe to mainland North America, the first Canadian woman to row across any ocean, and the first woman in the world to row across the Atlantic from mainland to mainland.

Other expeditions Angus has completed include the first descent of the Yenisei River (the world's fifth longest river) and a complete descent of the Amazon River from source to sea.

Colin Angus has written three books: Lost in Mongolia (2003), Amazon Extreme (2004) and Beyond the Horizon (2007). He has co-produced two films for National Geographic Television.^{[citation needed]} Outside Magazine included Colin Angus in a compilation of 25 people changing the world in its December 2005 issue.^[1]

1 Adventure
2 Recognition
3 Books
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Adventure

Colin Angus began his adventuring lifestyle at nineteen with a five year sailing odyssey in the Pacific Ocean, half of it done with his best friend Dan Audet. In 1999, along with Australian Ben Kozel and South African Scott Borthwick, he was among the first to raft the Amazon river from source to sea. The trio retraced the route of Polish kayaker Piotr Chmielinski's 1986 historic first-ever descent of the Amazon River from source to sea, which used a kayak.

To follow up the rafting of the Amazon, Angus put together a team which would accomplish the same task on the previously untraversed Yenisei river in Asia.

Map of 2004-2006 Colin Angus circumnavigation of the northern hemisphere.

Most recently, Angus claimed to be the first person to circle the world using exclusively human power, biking across land and rowing across water. His starting companion was Tim Harvey. However, they fought bitterly and parted and Harvey also circled the planet on zero emissions, but on a longer route than Angus, including Africa and South America. He was joined bicycling in Europe by his fianceé Julie Wafaei, who then rowed with him across the Atlantic in a leaky boat.^[2] British adventurer Jason Lewis claims that Angus' circumnavigation is not a "true" circumnavigation, because it did not pass through two antipodal points on the globe. The ship's log on the Russian research vessel Professor Khromov cite a high-seas rescue in support of the expedition.^[3] Angus had to return to Canada for medical treatment during the expedition, but returned to continue from the point he had left beforehand.

[edit] Recognition

Adventurer of the Year Award 2007 from National Geographic Adventure presented to Julie and Colin
Four International Books including two National Bestsellers written by Julie and Colin
Outside Magazine named Colin as one of the Top 25 “bold visionaries with world changing dreams” along with three full-page articles detailing his most recent expedition.
Men’s Journal honored Colin and eight others for being part of a new breed of explorers, as well as covering their adventures in other articles
Three Documentary Films produced by Angus Adventures, collectively won 11 awards and aired on National Geographic television around the world
Globe and Mail Newspaper (Canada’s National Paper) published a 16-part series by Colin, as well as five articles written by their own reporters detailing their recent expedition.
CBC Radio conducted 26 interviews from the field for the national program “As it Happens”
Reader's Digest, the world’s number-one selling magazine, published a 5000-word article written by Colin Angus.^[4]

[edit] Books

Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River. Anchor Canada: 2003. Paperback: ISBN 978-0-385-66014-3, ISBN 0-385-66014-6.
Amazon Extreme: Three Ordinary Guys, One Rubber Raft, and the Most Dangerous River on Earth. Anchor Canada: 2004. Paperback: ISBN 978-0-385-66009-9, ISBN 0-385-66009-X.
Beyond the Horizon: The Great Race to Finish the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Planet. Doubleday Canada: projected release date 27 March 2007. Hardcover: ISBN 978-0-385-66123-2, ISBN 0-385-66123-1.

[edit] References

^ "2005 All-Stars", Outside Magazine, December 2005.
^ Bruce Kirkby. "A Canadian Phileas Fogg" (html), Toronto Globe and Mail, (Abstract. Full article reprinted with permission on workopolis.com), 31 March 2007.
^ Angus, Colin. "Planet Earth Home at Last", Toronto Globe and Mail, 2006-05-20.
^ Colin Angus (February 2007). "Could someone circumnavigate the globe on human power alone?". Reader's Digest.