Скачать или смотреть A 23-year-old canoeist is paddling a 6,000-mile trek out of gratitude for life

(22 Nov 2024)
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Annapolis, Maryland - 7 November 2024
1. Pan across to Peter Frank in front of his canoe
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Frank, canoeist attempting The Great Loop route:
"My name is Peter Frank. I am 23 years old, and for the last four and a half months, I've been paddling my way through North America from Lake Michigan to the Chesapeake Bay. But this is only the beginning of my voyage as I am on the Great American Loop, which is a 6,000-mile yachting route through the eastern circumnavigation of the United States. I am doing this clockwise - backwards - meaning that over 25 percent, 1,600 miles of the entire 6,000 mile loop will be paddled against the current on inland rivers."
3. Mid of Peter Frank showing on a map where he is paddling UPSOUND (English) Peter Frank, canoeist attempting The Great Loop route: "I started in Escanaba, Michigan, and over the last four and a half months I paddled all the way through North America, parts of Canada, through New York, through New Jersey, all the way to Chesapeake Bay."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Frank, canoeist attempting The Great Loop route:
"This journey to me is my form of worship. It's my form of showing the appreciation for being alive and being able to walk and do the things that I can do. I'm grateful to be out here and to share this story. And in some regard, I feel that I have a responsibility to document the things that I experience for people who don't get to experience them."
5. Pan down Peter Frank's canoe
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Frank, canoeist attempting The Great Loop route:
"New York City is a is enormous. I mean, they have 38 passenger ships that come through, back and forth across the river constantly. These ferries go 40 knots up and down the Hudson and paddling through there in a canoe that you can only paddle three miles an hour, it's quite treacherous. But, I mean, every single terminal was about a mile apart and paddling across them, I had to be incredibly perceptive of my surroundings and able to navigate it safely."
7. Wide of Peter Frank's canoe near the bay
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Frank, canoeist attempting The Great Loop route:
"I go to Florida and I cross Lake Okeechobee, home to 30,000 documented alligators. It is a very treacherous route that I'll be going through. And I very much do not like alligators, but it is part of the journey. And so I must undertake it."
9. Mid of Peter Frank showing on a map where he is paddling UPSOUND (English) Peter Frank, canoeist attempting The Great Loop route: "Only a quarter way through my entire route, which will take me through the circumnavigation of Florida and up the inland rivers against the current 1,300 miles to the body of water that I started in. Over 6,000 miles."
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Frank, canoeist attempting The Great Loop route:
"It does get lonely sometimes, but I do have a love for what I do. I have a love for the outdoors and a love for canoeing. And I believe that propels me forward. With the sacrifice of a lot of things, there's a greater benefit on the other side."
11. Wide pan of Peter Frank in front of the canoe
STORYLINE:
Peter Frank has paddled from Escanaba, Michigan, in June to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland this month in his 1982 Sawyer Loon decked canoe, but he’s still got a long way to go.



“It’s my form of showing the appreciation for being alive and being able to walk and do the things that I can do," he says during a break in Annapolis, Maryland, earlier this month, a day before setting out again.




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