Rower Completes Trans-Atlantic Trip for Cancer Research
March 30, 2009
A 25-year-old financial consultant on Sunday completed a nearly three-month rowing trip across the Atlantic Ocean that he started 88 days earlier with a goal of raising $500,000 for skin-cancer research, Forbes reports.
Paul Ridley landed in Antigua after 88 days at sea in one of the highest-profile examples of “extreme fund-raising,” which mixes endurance sports, charity, and online tools such as blogs and electronic payments.
Mr. Ridley, a former university rower who lost his mother to skin cancer in 2001, has collected $75,000 so far and hopes to raise the rest with a speaking tour and book about his journey.
