Colin Angus (explorer)

Colin also writes a monthly column for the magazine Explore [7], addressing a wide range of subjects such as fund raising, camping, diets, exercise, and his philosophy of rowboats and long distance rowing.

On this last point he advocates sliding seat rowing as an efficient way of propelling a boat, since it promotes a full body workout, uses all the major muscles, and is also conducive to two person, continuous travel.

Colin Angus began his adventuring lifestyle at nineteen with a five-year sailing odyssey in the Pacific Ocean, half of it done with his best friend Dan Audet.

To follow up the rafting of the Amazon, Angus put together a team which would accomplish the same task on the previously untraversed Yenisei River in Asia.

Angus traveled around the world using exclusively human power, walking and biking across land and rowing across water, completing his journey in May 2006.

The British adventurer Jason Lewis, claims that Angus's journey was not a circumnavigation, because it did not pass through two antipodal points on the globe, although this is not required by Guinness World Records [9] Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine.

In 2008 Colin and his wife, Julie Angus, completed a trip from northernmost Scotland to Syria, covering 7,000 km (4,350 miles) of rivers and roads.

Also in 2011, Colin, his wife Julie Angus, and their young son Leif sailed from Spain to the Middle-East, retracing the domestication of the olive tree.

Julie won a $800,000 award from Natural Resources Canada and the MaRS Discovery District for the Woman in Cleantech Challenge to develop prototypes and demonstrate feasibility [13].