A Sheffield adventurer has become the first person to complete a non-stop solo row across the Pacific – travelling all the way from America to Australia.
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He ended his 209-day journey by kissing the ground at Cairns, which he reached after rowing “all night on two hours sleep”.
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“To be the first person to achieve something on this scale is incredible, really”, Beeden said.
‘I haven’t processed it yet. ‘It was 10, 15, 100 times harder than I thought it would be.
“I went looking for something more hard to push me to the edge, and when I set off from San Francisco, I didn’t realise how hard this was going to be”.
Beeden had previously rowed the Atlantic Ocean solo, before deciding to tackle the Pacific Ocean.
“I did think I would do a Frankie Detorri dismount by hopping over the rail and say that was the ride of a lifetime”, he wrote in an apparent reference to the Italian horse racing jockey. She told reporters that “he’s an fantastic guy”.
He said: “I don’t think that those of us who have felt the need to climb a mountain or row an ocean have done it, or will do it, because it’s there but because we are here”.
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According to the BBC, there have been nine successful rowing trips across the Pacific, although some rowers left from South America rather than North America and a few trips were completed in stages rather than in a single, continuous attempt.
