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Are you in the Guinness Book of World Records? No. Guinness is a great beer, but not so great at reporting world records. There is a difference between a “world record” and a “Guinness record”. [...]

In 2012, a new source of the Amazon River was discovered. It was 70 miles further than the previously held source and solidified the Amazon, with scientific proof, as the longest river on the [...]

West was born and raised in Texas, where he obtained a degree in Psychology at Southwest Texas State University. Currently, he’s a social worker specializing in helping mature citizens negotiate [...]

What defines the "source" of any river or stream has been the at the heart of many very infamous expedition controversies. Most renowned was the disagreement between Richard Burton and John [...]

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In 2012, at age 50, West Hansen began leading expeditions in the legendary faraway places of our ever-shrinking world. Fueled by the lure of a daily existence devoid of constant electronic input [...]

Two men from Austin, Texas, West Hansen and Jeff Wueste, are paddling the Volga River, Europe’s longest river, from its source in the Valdai Hills of Russia to the Caspian Sea, a distance of 2300 [...]

The first descent of the Amazon, from source to sea, was completed by Piotr Chmielinski and Joe Kane in 1989. But when a new source for the world’s second longest river was discovered years [...]

West Hansen and his team of boaters are kayaking down the Amazon River from Source to Sea and attempting a speed record as well.  Along the way he is collecting data for ASC’s South [...]