Ralph Tuijn is rowing across the pacific ocean

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:33 pm

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Ralph Tuijn (35) is an adventurer with many challenging expeditions to his name. Since the beginning of the 90s he has had a passion for the combination of endurance sports and nature in its most extreme form. He has visited the hottest, coldest, and most remote parts of the world, his guiding notions being: unmotorized and on his own power. He has covered more than 50,000 miles around the globe in this manner, cycling in temperatures of more than 50 degrees Celcius (122 Fahrenheit) through the desert, but also at temperatures as low as -55 (-67 F) degrees over frozen lakes and rivers in arctic Siberia. Ralph has cycled across the Greenland icecap without any support and he is the only person who has traveled from one end of Russia, the largest country in the world, to the other—twice.

In his quest for both the greatest challenge for the human body and the most expansive place on Earth he stumbled across a large blue area on the globe: the Pacific Ocean. No place else on the planet is bigger, more isolated, as inhospitable or as remote. An area almost as large as all the landmasses on the planet put together—the ultimate test in endurance sports.

"Crossing this ocean at its widest point, on my own and with no outside help, will be the ultimate trial and challenge for both my mind and my body. It is a quest to test the very limits of my abilities," says utter adventurer Ralph.

http://www.zeemanoceanchallenge.com/item.php?id=136&language=EN

that dude is nuts. He's a smoker. He has a kid and wife. He's doing this absolutely alone. I was suprised to learn that 9 people have already crossed the pacific in a row boat though, just no one has done it completely alone. How they heck can someone do that for 7-9 months??? he's going to die, no doubt. people have too much time on their hands.

related: have you ever heard of the floating neutrinos or Poppa Neutrino? apparently, this family likes to build giant rafts and live in them. they have floated across the pacific as well. CRAZY PEOPLE! http://www.floatingneutrinos.com/

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:09 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulph_Fiennes another mentalist, with a similar sounding first name