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Este sábado se estrena el documental de la Regata

🚣🏻🚣‍♀️ La Regata es más que una carrera, es una historia de resistencia, pasión y la conexión inquebrantable entre el hombre y el agua.

"UNA HISTORIA ESCRITA EN EL AGUA", es un documental que busca reflejar las 50 ediciones de desafíos, victorias y las miles de paladas que han forjado esta tradición, bajo la producción de ✅.

🗓️ ESTRENO: Sábado 15 de noviembre
🕑 14:00 HS
📍 Centro Cultural de Viedma.
🎫Entrada libre y gratuita.

Lo conocí en Caracas, Venezuela. Estuvo dando una charla de sus travesías 💪😊🛶

Remembering The Toughest Canoeist Of All Time: Verlen Kruger canoed the full length of the Mississippi River several times over his 82 years. For most people, just one trip would provide bragging rights to last a lifetime. Kruger wasn’t most people.

It’s not just that boasting wasn’t part of his repertoire, it’s that he logged an insane amount of miles in his canoe. With expeditions crisscrossing the entire Western Hemisphere, Kruger paddled more than 100,000 miles. That’s more than 42 runs of the Mississippi River, or four trips around the equator. Take your pick.

Born in 1922, Kruger grew into a charismatic and confident man. His friends would recall how he seemed fearless, excepting of course, his phobias of bears and armadillos, which he’d only cop to when talking in his sleep. At 41 years old, he started canoeing. He spent the next 41 years making up for lost time.

Driven by an obsessive devotion to his new sport, he redefined expedition canoeing. Measured by mileage or by ambition, his adventures were nothing short of colossal.

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✍️: Brook Sutton
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