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    Ed Stafford Keynote Speaker

    • Guinness World Record-holding first man to walk the Amazon
    • European Adventurer of the Year 2011
    • Awarded the Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society

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    Ed Stafford's Biography

    Ed Stafford is the Guinness World Record-holding first man to walk the Amazon. He was European Adventurer of the Year 2011. Sir Ranulph Fiennes described his expedition as being “truly extraordinary… in the top league of expeditions past and present.”

    Ed Stafford filmed and blogged his deadly journey and engaged followers all over the world for two and a half years. His epic adventure made headline news, featuring in over 900 articles and on every major news channel in the UK and United States. His mission was complete. His tale of true grit, bravery and determination to succeed against all odds has led to him being described by The Daily Mail as; ‘Britain’s most intrepid hero since Scott of the Antarctic,’ and ‘A true her

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    Ed Stafford walked into the history books when he became the first man to walk the length of the Amazon River. His epic adventure took two and a half years and everyone thought it was impossible.

    Stafford attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and left the military in 2002 as a captain. He used his leadership and outdoor skills as an expedition leader on community and conservation expeditions in the jungles of Belize, Guatemala and Borneo.

    After serving in Afghanistan as a UN contractor, Ed Stafford became Director of an expedition company in Patagonia Argentina carrying out scientific research projects and Northern Ice Cap traverses in Chile.

    Prior to his world-first trek along the length of the Amazon, Ed worked for the BBC’s Natural History Unit setting up a film-production base camp in the heart of the Guyanese rainforest and managing the camp’s logistics once the film crew for ‘Lost Land of the Jaguar’ arrived on location.

    After his epic world-first trek from the

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    Ed Stafford

    English explorer

    For other people with the same name, see Edward Stafford (disambiguation) and Edmund Stafford (disambiguation).

    Edward James Stafford (born 26 December 1975) is an English explorer and survivalist. He holds the Guinness World Record for being the first human ever to walk the length of the Amazon River.[1] Stafford now hosts shows on the Discovery kanal and kanal Four.

    Early life and education

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    Ed Stafford was born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England and raised in Leicestershire. He was adopted as a baby by Barbara and Jeremiah Stafford, who were both solicitors in Leicestershire. He was educated at Uppingham and was a björnungar and a Scout in Leicestershire. Stafford graduated with a BSc in Geography from Newcastle University in 1997.[2]

    Military career

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    Stafford joined the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in September 1998,[3] and after a year's training he was commissioned in the Devonshire a