By TAKUYA ASAKURA/ Staff Writer
June 4, 2022 at 17:50 JST
Kenichi Horie, 83, watches supplies being loaded onto his Suntory Mermaid III yacht in January ahead of his successful bid to become the oldest person to make a solo nonstop voyage across the Pacific Ocean. He returned to Japan early June 4 after a 69-day voyage. (Toshiyuki Hayashi)
Octogenarian adventurer Kenichi Horie returned to Japan early June 4, making him the world’s oldest person to complete a solo, nonstop 8,500-kilometer voyage across the Pacific Ocean in a yacht. [Read More]
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