A Frenchman recently returned from solo packrafting 365 km down Sierra Leone’s Rokel River, the country’s longest waterway. According to Explorer’sWeb, Tom Mariee took 17 days to complete the expedition, solo packrafting it in its entirely from near the Guinean border to the Sierra Leone River Estuary on the Atlantic Ocean.
In route, he dodged gold miners, had ants take over his tent in the middle of the night, suffered a staph infection on his leg, dealt with clogged water filters, survived on rice, rice, rice, and more, eventually reaching his goal more than 200 miles later. Next up, he says? Perhaps Madagascar…
Read more here: https://explorersweb.com/solo-descent-of-sierra-leones-largest-river/