According to the information given to the press, the seasoned sailor, who will turn 73 on December 12, began his journey in the port of Ushuaia, in southern Argentina, and plans to conclude it on the Australian continent.
“The expedition has begun. We are towing Konyukhov’s boat towards the Drake Passage, which will take us two days. I think that by December 2 we will reach the starting point in the Drake Passage and we will let Fyodor sail freely towards Australia,” said Oscar.
This voyage, scheduled for an estimated 200 days, will mark the second leg of a circumnavigation of the globe in the waters of the southern part of the planet. The first leg began on December 9, 2018, in the New Zealand port of Dunedin, on the South Island, and ended in Ushuaia, on May 12, 2019.
On that previous trek, Konyukhov rowed 11,500 kilometers in 154 days, adding another feat to the twenty world records he had previously achieved.
Konyukhov is the first person to have reached the so-called “five poles” of the planet: the North Pole (three times), the South Pole, the pole of relative inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean, Mount Everest and Cape Horn (the pole of sailors).
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