Ed Stafford is the Guinness World Record-holding first person to walk the Amazon River. Sir Ranulph Fiennes described his expedition as being “truly extraordinary… in the top league of expeditions past and present.” A former British Army captain, Ed filmed and blogged his deadly journey and engaged followers all over the world for almost two and a half years. His footage was made into a Discovery Channel documentary and was sold to over 100 countries and he authored the best-selling book, ‘Walking the Amazon’. Ed has gone on to film seven survival series and is now an established face of Discovery Channel and his seventh series Ed Stafford: First Man Out aired in late 2018 globally.

• Nellie BlyRound the world in 72 days  Captain Robert Falcon ScottRace to the Pole: Terra Nova expedition  Roald AmundsenRace to the Pole: Norwegian expedition  Lieutenant Colonel Percy FawcettSearch for the lost city of ‘Z’  Eva Dickson First woman to cross the Sahara by car  Clärenore StinnesFirst circumnavigation of the globe by production car  Amelia EarhartFirst woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean  Thor HeyerdahlKon-Tiki expedition  Jacques CousteauFirst underwater archaeology operation  Sir Edmund Hillary 84Everest first ascent  Tim Slessor London to Singapore by Land Rover  Sir Robin Knox-JohnstonFirst solo-sailed circumnavigation of the globe  Robyn DavidsonTrek across the deserts of west Australia using camels  Sir Ranulph FiennesTransglobe expedition  Reinhold MessnerFirst ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen  Jason Lewis First human-powered circumnavigation of the globe  Alastair HumphreysCycle around the world  Rune Gjeldnes Longest solo ski journey  Ed StaffordWalking the Amazon  Sarah Outen London2London  Bertrand Piccard and André BorschbergFirst round-the-world solar flight  Fedor Konyukhov Fastest round-the-world balloon flight  Olly Hicks and George BullardGreenland to Scotland by kayak  Apa SherpaTwenty-one Everest ascents  Laura Bingham First team to locate the source of and navigate the Essequibo River, Guyana

Ed Stafford is the Guinness World Record-holding first person to walk the Amazon River. Sir Ranulph Fiennes described his expedition as being “truly extraordinary… in the top league of expeditions past and present.” A former British Army captain, Ed filmed and blogged his deadly journey and engaged followers all over the world for almost two and a half years. His footage was made into a Discovery Channel documentary and was sold to over 100 countries and he authored the best-selling book, ‘Walking the Amazon’. Ed has gone on to film seven survival series and is now an established face of Discovery Channel and his seventh series Ed Stafford: First Man Out aired in late 2018 globally.

• Nellie BlyRound the world in 72 days  Captain Robert Falcon ScottRace to the Pole: Terra Nova expedition  Roald AmundsenRace to the Pole: Norwegian expedition  Lieutenant Colonel Percy FawcettSearch for the lost city of ‘Z’  Eva Dickson First woman to cross the Sahara by car  Clärenore StinnesFirst circumnavigation of the globe by production car  Amelia EarhartFirst woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean  Thor HeyerdahlKon-Tiki expedition  Jacques CousteauFirst underwater archaeology operation  Sir Edmund Hillary 84Everest first ascent  Tim Slessor London to Singapore by Land Rover  Sir Robin Knox-JohnstonFirst solo-sailed circumnavigation of the globe  Robyn DavidsonTrek across the deserts of west Australia using camels  Sir Ranulph FiennesTransglobe expedition  Reinhold MessnerFirst ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen  Jason Lewis First human-powered circumnavigation of the globe  Alastair HumphreysCycle around the world  Rune Gjeldnes Longest solo ski journey  Ed StaffordWalking the Amazon  Sarah Outen London2London  Bertrand Piccard and André BorschbergFirst round-the-world solar flight  Fedor Konyukhov Fastest round-the-world balloon flight  Olly Hicks and George BullardGreenland to Scotland by kayak  Apa SherpaTwenty-one Everest ascents  Laura Bingham First team to locate the source of and navigate the Essequibo River, Guyana