Amyr Klink
Amyr Khan Klink has delivered over 4,000 lectures throughout Brazil and abroad.
In his talks, Amyr Khan Klink shares experiences from his journeys, which began in 1978 when, still very young, he made his first international trip by motorcycle from São Paulo to Chile.
In 1984, he completed a groundbreaking solo rowing crossing of the South Atlantic Ocean. The 3,700-mile journey, which took 100 days and spanned from Namibia to Bahia, was documented in the best-selling book One Hundred Days Between Sea and Sky.
In 1986, he embarked on the first of more than 30 expeditions to Antarctica. Aboard the sailboat he built himself, Paratii, he debuted as a sailor in 1989 with a solo voyage that lasted 642 days, including seven and a half months intentionally stationary during an Antarctic wintering. From there, he continued to the Arctic and returned to Brazil after covering 27,000 miles in a single journey. Amyr recounts this adventure in the book Paratii: Between Two Poles.
In 1998, Amyr undertook another unprecedented journey: a solo circumnavigation around the Antarctic continent. The non-stop voyage, during which he crossed all Earth's meridians below the 60º South latitude, lasted 79 days. His experience is detailed in the book Endless Sea.
In 2002, he completed the construction of Paratii 2, the most advanced sailboat ever built in Brazil. Between December 2003 and February 2004, he repeated the polar circumnavigation, this time with five crew members. The non-stop journey lasted 76 days, covering 13,300 miles, and is described in his book Waterline – Between Shipyards and Seafarers, published in 2006.
In 2016, he released the book No Time to Waste, a life account in an interview with Isa Pessoa.
In 2019, he contributed to the book Overturning is Necessary by Professor Armando Oliveira. The book presents key project management concepts based on three major expeditions by Amyr Klink.
At the end of 2019, 30 years after his solo Antarctic wintering, Amyr returned to the peninsula with a crew of friends aboard the same boat – Paratii – to commemorate the occasion and revisit the places he had once explored.
