An explorer who’s the first person to visit the most remote location on the planet has revealed the hilarious moment he was attacked by an angry albatross when he arrived.
An adventurer who trekked to one of the most remote places on earth has revealed the hilarious moment he and his son were attacked by an albatross.
Chris Brown, 62made headlines last month as the first person to reach Point Nemo, an area in the Pacific that is known as the ‘most isolated location on the planet’. The point is known as the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility – one of the eight inaccessible poles in the world – with the nearest emerged land 1,600 miles away.
Despite the seriousness of the quest to Point Nemo, which took them nine days to reach by boat from the nearest shore, Chris – who was accompanied by his 30 year-old son Mika – has shared one hilarious moment from their expedition where they were attacked by an angry bird.
The pair from Harrogate in North Yorkshire had just reached their destination after a journey sailing to the pole, which sits 2,700km from the nearest landmass, and decided to jump into the ocean in celebration. But, as the TikTok video shows, an angry albatross bird proceeded to attack the father-son duo as they enjoyed the water.
The bird, who they think had been following their boat, the Hanse Explorer, swooped down on the men, going back for more each time it retreated. Chris recalled the moment in a caption on the post: “We got attacked at the loneliest place on Earth… A massive albatross swooped down and tried to attack us – with the bird not taking no for an answer! Even after trying to bat the big guy away with our hefty camera, he was still trying to attack us!”
Albatrosses are a large species of seabird, amongst the biggest of all flying birds, and spend most of their time in the air and have huge wingspans measuring up to an incredible 11 feet, able to spend years without touching the ground. Known as the “nomads of the oceans”, they are often spotted alone and travel for thousands of miles in a single journey, able to circumnavigate the earth in just 46 days. The TikTok video showing one of these remarkable creatures attacking the explorer duo has gone viral with nearly 7000 views.
According the Chris, there has never before been a documented expedition to Point Nemo and no one before them has ever swum there either. The location is so remote that the astronauts inhabiting the space station 400km above the earth are in fact closer to it than any one on the nearest land. In Latin, Nemo translates to no one, hence the title of the location.
The explorer logs his adventures on brown.co.uk and aims to reach all eight poles of inaccessibility, with only three destinations left to complete – including the Northern Pole in located on the Arctic Ocean ice pack and the Eurasian Pole in North-western China which are both point on land furthest away from the ocean.
