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World Service,02 Mar 2017,49 mins

I Survived By Building My Own Mast

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Conrad Colman was competing in the Vendee Globe round the world yacht race when his mast broke. Manuel Rodriguez Rojas from Mexico City is trying to protect the Ajolote, an endangered amphibian better known as the Mexican Walking Fish. Alcides Moreno survived a fall from a 47-story skyscraper in New York. Earl Lovelace is an award-winning Trinidadian novelist. Image: Conrad Colman at the finishing line of the Vendee Globe. Credit: Foresight Natural Energy.

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