We're delighted to offer our congratulations to Ed Stafford for his successful epic journey along the whole length of the Amazon.

Ed applied for a Wilderness Award a couple of years ago but we regrettfully turned him down. This wasn't a lack of faith in Ed but because his trip was going to take longer than a year and thus didn't fit our criteria.

In fact his 6400km journey took him 859 days, for much of the time accompanied by Peruvian forestry worker Gadiel "Cho" Sanchez Rivera.