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Colin Angus is a Canadian author and adventurer who is best known for circumnavigating the Northern hemisphere, mainly by human power. Records established in that expedition with Julie Wafaei include the first rowboat crossing of the Atlantic Ocean from mainland Europe to mainland North America, the first Canadian woman to row across any ocean, and the first woman in the world to row across the Atlantic from mainland to mainland.

Other expeditions Angus has completed include the first descent of the Yenisei River (the world's fifth longest river) and a complete descent of the Amazon River from source to sea.

Colin Angus has written three books: Lost in Mongolia (2003), Amazon Extreme (2004) and Beyond the Horizon (2007). He has co-produced two films for National Geographic Television.

Outside Magazine included Colin Angus in a compilation of 25 people changing the world in its December 2005 issue.

Adventure

Colin Angus began his adventuring lifestyle at nineteen with a five year sailing odyssey in the Pacific Ocean, half of it done with his best friend Dan Audet. In 1999, along with Australian Ben Kozel and South African Scott Borthwick, he was among the first to raft the Amazon river from source to sea. The trio retraced the route of Polish kayaker Piotr Chmielinski's 1986 historic first-ever descent of the Amazon River from source to sea, which used a kayak.

To follow up the rafting of the Amazon, Angus put together a team which would accomplish the same task on the previously untraversed Yenisei river in Asia.

Most recently, Angus claimed to be the first person to circle the world using exclusively human power, biking across land and rowing across water as well as wind power. His starting companion was Tim Harvey. However, they fought bitterly and parted. He was joined bicycling in Europe by his fianceé Julie Wafaei, who then rowed with him across the Atlantic in a leaky boat.

British adventurer Jason Lewis claims that Angus' circumnavigation is not a "true" circumnavigation, because it did not pass through two antipodal points on the globe. His own human powered circumnavigation trip is three-quarters completed .

Angus claims that his two-year expedition included voyaging the Pacific and Atlantic oceans unsupported in a rowboat. The ship's log on the Russian research vessel Professor Khromov cite a high-seas rescue in support of the expedition (Toronto Globe and Mail). The expedition was non-continuous and was broken up by intercontinental air travel.

Books

• Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River. Anchor Canada: 2003. Paperback: ISBN 978-0-385-66014-3, ISBN 0-385-66014-6.
• Amazon Extreme: Three Ordinary Guys, One Rubber Raft, and the Most Dangerous River on Earth. Anchor Canada: 2004. Paperback: ISBN 978-0-385-66009-9, ISBN 0-385-66009-X.
• Beyond the Horizon: The Great Race to Finish the First Human-Powered Circumnavigation of the Planet. Doubleday Canada: projected release date 27 March 2007. Hardcover: ISBN 978-0-385-66123-2, ISBN 0-385-66123-1.

References

Bruce Kirkby, "A Canadian Phineas Fogg. Toronto Globe and Mail book review section, March 31, 2007

See also

• Adventure
• Extreme sport

External links

• "Adventurers of the Year: The New Magellans" — National Geographic Adventure magazine, November 2006.
• Angus Adventures website.

1. Bruce Kirkby, "A Canadian Phineas Fogg," Toronto Globe and Mail, book reviews, March 31, 2007

• Canadian people