Sebastian Snow

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Sebastian Edward Farquharson Snow, (21 January 1929 – 20 April 2001), born in Midhurst, Sussex, was an English adventurer who is notable for his explorations of the Amazon River.[1]

Travels

Educated at

National Service
on account of a sports injury and began his travels at age 22.

This was in 1951, when Snow went on his first expedition to South America, after having answered an advertisement in

glacier lake, flowed into the Marañón, the Amazon's most voluminous tributary. This was not ground-breaking news, however, since the Ninococha's status as the ultimate source of the Amazon was something previous French explorers to the region had posited on good evidence. Snow and Brown merely confirmed empirically what was already widely believed by geographers. Nevertheless, this expedition remained Snow's chief claim to fame during his lifetime, earning both men election as fellows of the Royal Geographical Society.[3]

Beginning in 1973 in the Argentinian city of Ushuaia, Snow set out to walk the length of the Americas, from Patagonia to Alaska along the Pan-American Highway, a distance of some 15,000 miles. His travel companion during the gruelling and dangerous traversal of the Darién Gap was a young Canadian, Wade Davis, later to gain fame in his own right as an ethno-botanist and author.[4] Severe health problems forced him to take a break shortly after crossing the Darién Gap, but a few months later Snow resumed his journey from the precise point in Costa Rica at which it had been interrupted. However, Snow never completed the second half of his journey, abandoning it only a few weeks later.

Snow's other adventures included

Lapland, travelling on foot through much of the Middle East, and climbing Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, and Sangay. At least three online obituaries to Snow may be traced. All those cited mention Brown too.[5][1][6]

Travel books

References

  1. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  2. ^ Considerable information including a bibliography of John Brown is available through this link derived from work undertaken in South Shield's library, the home town of John Brown: retrieved 12 March 2016.
  3. ^ Yorkshire Evening Post, 28 August 1952, p. 6: retrieved 12 March 2016.
  4. ^ Snow, Sebastian The Rucksack Man London: Sphere Books, 1977, pp. 199–243.
  5. ^ "Sebastian Snow". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  6. ^ South American Explorers Organisation appreciation by Loren McIntyre retrieved from http://www.saexplorers.org/system/files/magazine/sae-mag-65i-obit-sebastian-snow.pdf 12 March 2016.
  7. ^ Two Against the Amazon, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1952. Amazon Books page retrieved 12 March 2016 [1].
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