JAtsek Palkevich: "do not die of fear".
JAtsek Palkevich: "do not die of fear".
The rector of "survival academy", the Polish traveller-ekstremal
Learns to overcome own phobias and to change destiny.
... ON FOOT on "Coast of skeletons". If only on coast
Skeletons. And even through waterless Sahara, and even through the African
Jungle... He considers as the Most dangerous enterprise swimming
Through Atlantic ocean on a five-metre life boat without
Radio communication and navigating devices. But who knows, can more
In total he risked the life when has got into the coded base
"Red khmers" in Pajline? But what for? A strange question - that
To survive. Such is its motto - to survive there where it is impossible.
American magazine "п я я я я п п " has switched on it in the list "the Last
Generation of pioneers ". And it so. But what it has opened?
First of all - has opened for itself and for all possibilities
Human spirit in overcoming of force-majeur circumstances.
It made the way in the most inaccessible places in search of the last
White stains to learn and tell then about their inhabitants, and
Moreover - to urge people to rescue these oases of the unique nature.
JAtsek Palkevich year - was born in the hardest for all planet in
1942. In the heat the Second World War stormed. For
The baby who was born in camp for stolen on jobs in
Germany, the survival problem has begun with the first days of a life. Who
Could think then, what is it begins trade JAtseka - to survive,
To survive, survive. To survive in deserts and oceans, in a jungle
Amazons and the Siberian tundra... Moreover - to learn others, as
To overcome hunger, thirst, loneliness, heat and an icy cold...
- JAtsek, whether it was necessary to address in other situations for the help
Only to the God?
- To this question I will respond a proverb of Breton fishermen - only
After a storm you understand, that such the God...
- At us speak so: who did not go to the sea, that did not pray to the God.
In the seas Palkevich resembled much - and alone, and in quality
The navigator on courts under liberijskim a flag.
The career of traveller-ekstremala Palkevich began as
The professional seaman. Having left "national" Poland in 1970,
The 27-year-old selector of happiness has tried to find it in Italy and soon
Has found it in the name of beauty-model Linda. It has connected with it
The uneasy desperate life for ever - before silver wedding
Both further. She and until now waits its time on half a year from the dangerous
The enterprises, showing wisdom and virtue Penelopy twenty
The first century. But then - in the home life beginning - had no time
Exotic adventures. And passionarnyj the Pole has gone in
Genoa where in consulate of Liberia has passed examinations for the second
The navigator. Those years on courts under a "cheap" flag - liberijskim,
Panama or Greek - still it was possible to earn quite good
Money. So sea wanderings JAtseka worldwide have begun.
Life in raznoplemennyh ship commands - noisy, motley,
At times quarrelsome and rather dangerous - has tempered and without that adventurous
Character Palkevicha. From the seas has pulled it by a vagrant life
The hunter behind impressions. Having given to sea wanderings two years,
The former navigator has gone on gold save to Ghana. Alas, on the stranger
Gold you will not grow rich. Besides explosion has carried away a life of the best friend,
And JAtsek has for ever left Ghana, having got over in Sierra Leone. There it
Has found not less dangerous job, becoming the officer of protection diamond
The mine belonging to British. At the wheel a patrol jeep it
Went round huge territory. At times it was necessary to enter in
Firing with fans of an easy money. Then, when it has brought
Home - and it is silent small town near Venice Bassano del Grappa -
Some sketches from the African life, them immediately
Has published a popular magazine "Dzhente". So there has ascended its star
Glories. Since then it could go on the world as the reporter - for the bill
Editions.
But really about the brave Pole have started talking when in
1975 it has crossed Atlantic on a usual life boat.
Yes, it was not the first who has thrown down a challenge to ocean. Alain Bombar
Has subdued it a little bit earlier. But even to repeat the stranger
The feat, is required remarkable courage.
The desert Sahara became second passion JAtseka after water
Elements. Knowingly it still the boy has learnt by heart all
"The world atlas". It went on sand as went to ancient times - with
Caravan of camels.
Antoine de Sent-Ekzjuperi, time and again flying by over Sahara on
The plane, confirmed: "... Whether it be the house, stars or desert -
The most perfect in them that you will not see eyes ".
- Yes, it so, - agrees JAtsek Palkevich, - at the deserts
Charms. Who has felt them on itself(himself), that will be constant to pull there,
Where the life and death are divided by a barkhan crest. Desert Sahara could
To name only for whom and ocean only a water assemblage...
The third, and can, fifth or its seventh passion - Amazon.
"... Making the way through a selva of Amazon, - writes Palkevich in the
To last book "Adventure", - often I wonder, where nevertheless
The queen of the rivers originates? Hundreds space companions continuously
Photograph all corners of our planet, the person scrupulously
Studies the star sky and sea depths, but till now in area
The geography still has not resolved many questions at issue. One of
Them - a source of Amazon ". Palkevich undertook to find a source of the greatest
And the almost impassable river with heat peculiar to it and
Enterprise. Together with the Russian hydrobroad gulls Sergey
Ushnurtsevym and Rimmoj Hajrutdinovoj it goes to the Peruvian
High mountains. The oxygen maintenance in air twice more low, than
On a sea level. Each step was given with huge work... But the purpose
It is close. The international expedition goes from last forces lengthways
Mountain stream. "The stream is narrowed and becomes shallow. We follow along it already
More than five hours on a track laid by herds of llamas... And here,
At last, for some metres to top nevajo Kevysha among
Snow-white gravel the stain of a dense moss and a grass gently turns green.
Here, in slightly raging spring, the great originates
Amazon... "Yes, after that expedition it"has grown"on maps
Geographers on kind hundreds kilometres and now applies for a title
The longest in the river world. Its extent, after the exact
Source definitions on 400 kilometres exceeds length of Nile and
Makes 7100 kilometres.
It is possible to list routes Palkevicha indefinitely. At
Someone at home cases are filled by books about travel. At Palkevicha in
Cases - clothes for travel: in "Siberian" - a fur armour,
In which it has reached "cold poles" in Yakutia, in "saharskom" -
Pith helmets, shorts, shirts, in "Amazonian" - a set
Jackets-vetrovok, shtormovok, raincoats... I have forgotten to eat
Whether at it though in one case a tuxedo for visiting royal
Geographical society which has selected Palkevicha the
The full member. Anyway Linda sees more often
It in jeans and sweaters.
It is said that Palkevich has based in 1983 the first in Europe (and
Can be, and in the world) survival Academy that
Daily to support adrenaline level in blood. But it not so.
- We live in very uneasy and is deceptive the comfortable world,
- Speaks Palkevich, - and consequently skills of a survival should have
Everyone. Unless tragical events in New York on September, 11th once again
Have not confirmed this true?
"Initiative JAtseka was a success, - journalists marked. -
Officials, students, military pilots and even missionaries came to
To it on courses that in a wild corner at bottom of the Alpes to learn
To operate in extreme conditions ". The Academy certificate
Survivals there was not less prestigious document, than a diploma
Sorbonny or Eton.
Round Hejerdal, Alain Bombar, Jury Senkevich, Dmitry Shparo, Feodor
Grooms... In this remarkable number of the professional
Travellers name JAtseka Palkevicha takes a worthy place.
- JAtsek with what nevertheless has begun? Who has induced on so rare
Way of life?
- Probably, I somehow differently read Jack Londona... Remember,
The story "Will to live"? It possesses such powerful impulse to
Lives what to remain the homebody after it it is simply impossible...
Still there was Joseph Konrad. I even the son have named Konradom.
- At you after all two sons?
- Yes, to both for twenty... But only now I have found with them
Common language - without the translator. The senior - Konrad - the expert on
To the computer drawing. And younger - is going to to become the billionaire:
Wishes to open the restaurant and hotel.
- And Linda takes part in your travel?
- Once a year, when promise to reserve 5-star hotel. It
The present woman.
- And who it by a trade?
- She is an artist.
Aristotle fairly noticed: on travel the clothes decay,
But looks younger smothering. JAtsek Palkevich - live to volume the certificate. About him
Speak: "Palkevich does in a life only that wants". But business
In that he wants that the life orders, - to be able
To survive everywhere where you were thrown by whim of destiny.
- I suffered from thirst and a cold, from a heat and hunger. I lived! Without
Regrets and repentance. And I to these was not sated.
- It is said that the religion of the person is with what it fills
Free time...
- I do not have free time. I at home happen six months in
To year. Besides I should write much. I the author of fourteen
Books... So the free time leaves basically on...
Here JAtsek has passed to whisper-... Women.
- And where, in your opinion, the most beautiful women?
- In Venezuela, certainly. - and JAtsek was lop-sided on Linda's portrait. -
Some, consider, that on Cuba. But, believe to me, in Venezuela
The most beautiful women in the world.
- And your liked cities?
- Madrid, Buenos Aires... Very much I like Indochina. In 1972 I
Has opened for itself Amazonia. Also thought - this love for all life. But
After two years has seen Sahara. And now it is the greatest love.
By contrast, probably. However, it is the parallel worlds, and consequently
The love too can be parallel.
- Where the arrow of your compass this time looks?
- As well as arrows of all compasses she looks, certainly, on
The north, - grins JAtsek, - but I look towards Mexico. On
To traces of well-known conquistador Fransisko Raliana which has passed
All Amazon in п VI a century. Here we will go on its traces. Then on
Island Tahiti I will follow a policy of a survival for group of people...
- That you can tell about those who survives on the tropical
Islands in our new television show?
- I caught a glimpse only of this transfer, - have delicately evaded
From estimations my interlocutor. - therefore anything concrete to tell not
I can. In any case experience robinzonov, got by them on
Islands, undoubtedly, it is useful in a life. As the classic confirmed:
"The life is densely populated desert". And one in it live, and
Another should survive...
- Other classic has told: "survival Art belongs
To the people ".
- In general is so. But I should train in a survival at times
Very strong people. For example, fighters of special troops...
Our inquiry: "In 1997 from Security council approval
Russia and Polish state structures Jatsek Palkevich was engaged
Preparation of elite antiterrorist divisions in
Extreme conditions of desert, jungle and Pripoljarja ".
- What would you wish readers of "the Russian newspaper"?
- The world today not that was until recently.
The international terrorism just lifts a head. Therefore mine
The main wish - not to be careless. And not to be lost at
What circumstances. To men the separate wish - to be
Strong and to appreciate those women who have presented it the love.
Because only beloveds do us really
The strong.
Nikolay Tcherkashin,
MOSCOW - WARSAW.
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//* an information Source: the Russian newspaper, 1.02.02
//* Reg. Nom. - 1120200004.46-------------------------------------------
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