🇸🇷 33-Year-old Discovers Source of an Amazon River and Uncharted Waterfalls Trekking Through ‘Brutal’ Jungle

A British explorer has discovered the source of an uncharted Amazon river, after being stalked by jaguars and ravaged by army ants.

The area has only ever been mapped by satellites, leading to solely inaccurate coordinates due to the jungle tree cover.

The daring 33-year-old, Ash Dykes, beamed with joy after finding the start of the Coppename River in Suriname with fellow adventurers Jacob Hudson, Dick Lock and Matt Wallace

They also named two undocumented waterfalls—Dykes Falls and Wallace Falls—after the team members who first spotted them in the largely unexplored jungle.

Originally from Wales, but now living in London, he hired a helicopter on August 29th to drop them into the center of Suriname which is 93% forested.

He and his team then spent the next six days fighting their way upstream in kayaks, carrying over 100 pounds of supplies—while being bitten by ticks and vicious army ants.

“It is crazy to think that we are going to some places that the forest hasn’t ever seen a human footprint before. And it’s not surprising… It is brutal in the jungle.”

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