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Salvador Alvarenga
When you are at home, you have repeatedly thought of what would it be like to endure the humidity of a rain forest or the aridness of a desert. You may think it is a walk in the park however you don’t envisage how hard it is to get through asperous conditions.
One famous example of such daunting feat was by a man named Jose Salvador Alvarenga. On November of 2014, he set out on a fishing trip with another co-worker. After about two days, Jose and his co-workers began to go back to El Salvador when fierce winds hit him off course (50 miles off his original destination) and punctured the bowl of the fishing boat. He spent 13 months on a small dinghy with the another man (who unfortunately died). During his peregrination, his dietary consumption

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