Mark Agnew, from Edinburgh, hopes to be one of the first to kayak the Arctic's Northwest Passage.
A man who twice failed to row the Atlantic is hoping to become one of the first people to kayak the Arctic's Northwest Passage.
Both ships involved in that exploration became ice bound. Franklin and his crew of 129 men on HMS Erebus and HMS Terror perished. They will set off from Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada, and hope to finish 90 days later at Tuktoyaktuk, an Inuit hamlet in Canada. "I wasn't clinically depressed but the feeling of being pathetic became overwhelming. Eventually, I decided I needed to drag myself out of my hole by going on adventures again. I realised I had to focus on the experience and not the outcome."I began to focus on camaraderie, discovery of beautiful landscapes and being at one with nature and not just on the aspect of winning or of gaining the world record. That said, I'm still motivated by the world first.
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