"Sixty-one-year-old Dermot Higgins got the idea to canoe 3,150 kilometers along one of North America’s remotest rivers from a drinking buddy.
"The rest — Higgins’ 'seriously overweight and quite unfit' condition, nude paddling, a bear attack, and his fraught personal history — is history."
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"The rest — Higgins’ 'seriously overweight and quite unfit' condition, nude paddling, a bear attack, and his fraught personal history — is history."

Beer Run: Bar Encounter Provokes Average Man to Paddle Entire Yukon River » Explorersweb
Dermot Higgins, 61, paddled all 3,150 kilometers of the Yukon River this summer — with virtually no prior experience.
