Orlando, Florida
April 25, 2012
AMAZON 5000 EXPEDITION
Scheduled to begin on
May, 19, 2012
at Pedernales, Ecuador
From Central Florida to the Mighty Amazon!
Orlando resident and cancer Survivor to Trek 5,000 Miles across the Amazon Jungle.
Mickey Grosman’s ‘History Making’ Journey, on locations no one dared to cross before, intends to reignite the fight against cancer.
ORLANDO, Florida, April 25, 2012 – The Amazon 5000 - For the Cure foundation, www.amazon5000.com announced today that its founder Mickey Grosman - a recent cancer survivor, an Adventurer, Explorer and Survivalist, will be departing to Ecuador on May 2nd to begin final preparations for his 5,000 mile expedition across the mighty Amazon Jungle. His history making journey will launch May 19, 2012 in Pedernales on the pacific shore of Ecuador.
The twelve month journey will run across the wider part of the the continent trekking the length of the Amazon River and traversing Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Brazil.
On his route, Mickey will be aided by rare historic maps, previous interviews of indigenous Amazonians, and a collection of oral and written testimonies gathered over the years to help him navigate through the treacherous terrain. Mickey intends to retrace the original tracks of the Legendary El-Dorado voyage in 1541, commanded by the Spaniard Francisco de Orellana, the explorer who discovered the Amazon River and named that region “Amazonia.”
No doubt, Mickey will face extreme challenges such as hazardous gorges, turbulent waterways, dangerous environmental obstacles and deadly wildlife that may impede his journey. More of are the savage “uncontacted “Amazon tribes, hostile pirates and even drug trafficking bandits that might encounter his way. But Mickey is determined to persevere and reach his destiny, as no one before him has done. Not since Francisco de Orellana’s exploration has anyone attempted to cross this path at this juncture.
Faced with a potential life-threatening environment, Mickey will rely heavily on his best survival skills, gained during his years of service in a Special Operations combat unit, and honed while staying in the rural jungle and living among his Amazonian friends. These valuable skills have aided him over the years as he led adventures deep into the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador sharing his passion for exploration and extreme challenge experience with adventure seekers like him.
It wouldn’t be the first time Mickey has to face a life-threatening situation. Diagnosed on 2010 with melanoma cancer, and now cancer free, Mickey’s objective is to run the AMAZON 5000 Expedition as a tool to promote global awareness to the plight of other cancer patients and to raise funds along his journey to benefit Cancer research.
By setting a personal example of courage and determination, Mickey is ready to face the elements to its extreme and to continue his path along the Amazon despite all obstacles .
Mickey dedicates this extraordinary trek to those who are fighting cancer hoping to inspire and to encourage them to continue their fight despite their unwavering obstacles.
The Amazon 5000 for the Cure, is a non-profit organization with a big mission.
Through his campaign, it is Mickey’s goal to:
- Reignite the fight against cancer
- Inspire those currently in the battle
- Endorse organizations that support families in their journey to conquer cancer.
“Cancer treatment has been greatly enhanced by rainforest medicines”, says Grosman. According to the National Cancer Society, 70 percent of the plants with anti-cancer properties are native to tropical rainforests.
Believing that the Amazon Rainforest is humanity’s hope for the Cure Mickey wish to bring awareness to the rising deforestation in the jungle, and to emphasize the importance in conserving the Amazon rainforest and its species, many of whom are yet to be discovered!
The AMAZON 5000 expedition will be covered by national TV and media and will be streaming LIVE from the jungle via satellite communication methods.
Fans from around the world can follow Mickey and AMAZON 5000 expediton virtually by visiting our website: www.amazon5000.com where they will be able to follow the expedition progress in real time with 10 minute increments of auto updates. You will see the pings posted on Google maps page with a well defined and marked trail.
Due to a kind sponsorship by the Satellite Phone Store company of Sarasota, Florida Mickey will be able to broadcast LIVE from the Amazon via Satellite sharing with people from all over the world his findings and his where abouts. People at home will be able to ask Mickey questions over an internet page we will provide and cheer him on.
Mickey will interact with us all back at home LIVE from the heart of the mighty Amazon jungle!
While Mickey will be followed by thousands of fans from around the globe, his biggest fans will be of the smallest size; children - Children who are in the battle.
Mickey dedicates his journey to all those children battling Cancer that are undergoing treatments in the hospitals. Despite his hectic schedule, packed with preparations for a record setting expedition, Mickey has ensured to set time aside for his true purpose - to inspire and bring hope to these children.
Prior to his departure Mickey has been a featured guest speaker at local children cancer organizations and hospitals. Bringing his spirit of adventure and sharing with them the mystical wonders of the Amazon jungle, he has captivated the kids imagination and given them a break from the ugly world cancer has surrounded them with. Mickey shares with the children survival tips and tells how he has overcome adversity. His message to these kids...together we can make The IMPOSSIBLE, POSSIBLE!
The children will be virtually tracking Mickey in the jungle straight from their hospital bed thanks to the Amazon 5000 - for the Cure foundation and with collaboration of their partner, Florida Hospital. Florida Hospital pediatric patients as well as children who are supported by charity organizations such as BASE Camp Children’s Cancer Foundation, have become a part of the Amazon 5000 -Kids Adventure Club program, a club specifically developed for children with cancer. The Amazon 5000 Kids Adventure Club provides a place where kids from around the world can follow Mickey during his expedition, be inspired, have a window open for them into the marvelous world of the Amazon and have a distraction from their daily hospital procedures.
The Amazon 5000 Expedition will be posting updates via satellite streaming on our pages below:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Amazon5000
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AMAZON5K
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ecoplanet2009?feature=mhee
Blog: http://ecoplanetadventure.blogspot.com/
Email: Join our Mailing List
Google Map: http://g.co/maps/bqwkg
Tracking the footsteps of the Amazon 5000 expedition will go LIVE on an interactive map we will provide in our updates. It will launch on Saturday, May 19, 2012 when the expedition is expected to begin and will be available throughout the duration of the journey.
Here are some bio facts for Mickey:
- Mickey Grosman, a Special Forces veteran, Adventurer, Explorer, and Survivalist of the Elements.
- For the past several years Mickey Grosman has been taking adventurers from all over the world to the Amazon jungle of Ecuador, on Eco-challenge adventures and survival of the Elements training.
- Mickey has lived with the Amazonian indigenous in the jungle of Ecuador for several months, developing his Eco-Adventure program together with Delfin Gualinga, a native to the Amazon basin jungle, learning from him the Jungle Survival methods and teaching him Survival of the Elements skills.
- Mickey is a cancer survivor, he was diagnosed with Melanoma Cancer (a skin cancer) in 2010
- Mickey is the founder of Amazon 5000-for the Cure, Inc., a non-profit organization.
- By setting a personal example going on this 5000 miles epic expedition Mickey’s goal is to:
Reignite the fight against cancer
Inspire those currently in the battle
Endorse organizations that support families in their journey to conquer cancer.
- Throughout the Amazon 5000 - for the Cure campaign, Mickey is raising funds to benefit cancer communities.
- Mickey dedicates his journey to all those who are fighting cancer.
- Believing that the Amazon Rainforest is humanity’s hope for the Cure Mickey wish to bring awareness to the rising deforestation in the jungle, and to emphasize the importance in conserving the Amazon rainforest and its species, many of whom are yet to be discovered!
- The Amazon 5000 expedition will take 12 months to complete
- Mickey will be setting a world record. He will be the first person to cross the South American continent at its wider part trekking the length of the Amazon River from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
“Our perceptions of the Amazon are mostly mythical
but in Amazonia reality is more amazing then mythology”
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