West Hansen

From Texas to the Amazon: An Explorer Recounts His Journey Down the World’s Longest River

January 14, 2020 | By Pam LeBlanc

In 2012, Texan West Hansen led a paddling expedition down the Amazon River, following it from an icy trickle high in the Peruvian Andes to its wide and rushing terminus at the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil.

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