Press – Amazon Express

It’s been little over eight years since Jeff Wueste, Ian Rolls and I stumbled onto a white sand beach that shared the Atlantic Ocean and the Amazon River; amidst 30-foot rollers and heavy [...]

In 2012, Texan West Hansen led a paddling expedition down the Amazon River, following it from an icy trickle high in the Peruvian Andes to its wide and rushing terminus at the Atlantic Ocean in [...]

The dangers along the Amazon River do not just come from the tough terrain, isolated landscapes, and fearsome wildlife. They come from the people in the area; pirates, drug barons, and gangs [...]

Peeled Faces On The Amazon: The Story of the Amazon Express In 2012, an international group of explorers, led by Texan, West Hansen, launched an expedition from the newly discovered most distant [...]

Bandits and drug traffickers are among the dangers lurking on a newly disovered stretch of the Amazon that may make it the world's longest river, an adventure recounted in the documentary "Peeled [...]

West Hansen leads the first ever attempt to paddle the entire Amazon River from a newly proposed source—but not without facing the wrath of Mother Nature and gun­-toting locals.

The origin of the world's largest river—by volume—has been surprisingly hard to pin down. Explorers and scientists have argued over where to locate the start of the Amazon River since at least [...]

You've seen the black and white stickers on the backs of cars—13.1, 26.2, 140.6. If you live in the world of endurance racing, you instantly recognize those distances, but did you know there's a [...]