Amyr Klink

Amyr Klink (born September 25, 1955 in São Paulo, Brazil) is an explorer and sailor. One of his projects, "Antarctica 360", was aimed at circumnavigating the Antarctic continent on his own, which lasted 79 days in 1998.

Klink has written seven books chronicling his voyages, such as "Between Two Poles", which relates to his trip from Antarctica to the Arctic Pole, starting in 1989 and finishing in 642 days. Klink has personally assisted the construction of the polar vessel used in this trip, named "Paratii" after the town of Paraty in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

His chronicles "100 Days Between Sea and Sky" reports the story of how Klink crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 100 days on his own, only by rowing a small boat with his arms in 1984, from the African coast to the state of Bahia in Brazil. The food portions in this particular trip were compacted into packages of liofilized food, especially designed for him by a food processing company in Brazil.

In 2002, Klink has completed an experimental phase of one of his project named "A Trip to China" - a trip around the world through a maritime path that had never been explored before: the Arctic Circle. The project's first phase was successfully accomplished between January 30 and April 6 2002: Klink and crew left the Antarctic Circle, visiting Margarida Bay in the Bellingshausen Sea (in the extreme South of the Antarctic Peninsula). From there, the ship stopped in South Georgia, before returning to Brazil.

Amyr was born to a Lebanese father and a Swedish mother. He moved to Paraty (RJ) when he was two. Klink is a member of the Royal Geographic Society. He married Marina Bandeira in 1996 and has three daughters.

External links

*Amyr Klink's [http://www.amyrklink.com.br official website]
*The Telegraph, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/travel/2004/06/19/etparati190604.xml "Out with the prospectors, in with the publishers"] , retrieved 15 June 2007.