Mark Rumble interviews Mark de Rond about Row the Amazon. Mark talks about the challenges he and rowing colleague Anton Wright faced during the 2,200 mile row, shares some extraordinary stories and favourite songs. Listen from 21:15 mins...

NOV/DEC 2013   Two rowers from Cambridge have become the first to row the length of the Amazon. Dr Mark de Rond and Anton Wright completed the 32-day voyage across Peru, Colombia and Brazil...

15 NOV 2013   Two intrepid Cambridge University rowers - Mark de Rond and Anton Wright - set off on the 13th of September hoping to be the first to row the mighty Amazon from Nauta to the Atlantic Ocean, writes Captain Bill in his blog...

7 NOV 2013   Dave Baxter interviews Mark de Rond, reader in strategy and organisation at Cambridge Judge Business School. Mark speaks about the challenging Amazon row and what a new insight into teamwork and organisation this gave him...

6 NOV 2013   Two men – Mark de Rond and Anton Wright - have achieved a world first by rowing the navigable length of the Amazon without back-up...

5 NOV 2013   BBC Look East interviews Mark de Rond and Anton Wright after their challenging row. The duo rowed more than 2,000 miles and became the first people to row the length of the Amazon...

27 OCT 2013   "What is it that makes people set off on expeditions? One such risk taker returned to Cambridge last weekend, having achieved a place in the Guinness Book of Records," writes Jane Wilson-Howarth in her blog. Anton Wright and Mark de Rond managed to row the entirety of the River Amazon...

27 OCT 2013   The first man to row the length of the Amazon is filling up on chocolate while recovering from an abscess. Mark de Rond speaks to Josh Glancy about his and Anton Wright's epic row...

27 OCT 2013   Judge Business School's Mark de Rond and Clare College rowing chief, Anton Wright, completed their epic journey rowing the Amazon, having covered more than 2,000 miles in 32 days...

25 OCT 2013   Mark de Rond and Anton Wright, two University of Cambridge friends, have become the first people ever to row the navigable length of the Amazon River in 32 days...

25 OCT 2013   Two Cambridge University rowers have become the first to cover the navigable length of Amazon. Mark de Rond and Anton Wright completed more than 2,000 miles in 32 days...

25 OCT 2013   Mark De Rond and Anton Wright finish Amazon record bid in a leaky boat they braved tropical storms, broken communications equipment and an abscess in a very private place...

25 OCT 2013   Mark de Rond and Anton Wright gave interview to Heart radio. The duo shared their Amazon row experience and how happy they're to be back to UK...

25 OCT 2013   Two Cambridge University friends are the first people ever to row the full length of the Amazon river. Anton Wright, 38, and Dutch-born Mark de Rond, 45, after a series of challenges completed the epic 2,077-mile journey in just 32 days...

25 OCT 2013   Row, row, row your boat, gently down the ... entire length of the Amazon River. Not as catchy as the original, but Mark de Rond and Anton Wright won't worry about that...

24 OCT 2013   Two University of Cambridge friends have become the first people ever to row the full length of the Amazon River - with the help of a Brazilian teenager. Mark de Rond and Anton Wright overcame a series of challenges to complete the challenge...

24 OCT 2013   Two University of Cambridge friends have become the first people ever to row the full length of the Amazon River - with the help of a Brazilian teenager...

24 OCT 2013   Tropical storms, an infected buttock and a broken boat could not stop Cambridge pair Mark de Rond and Anton Wright as they became the first people to row the length of the Amazon...

23 OCT 2013   Two rowers from Cambridge University are back in the city, after successfully rowing the length of the Amazon. Academic Mark De Rond and rowing coach Anton Wright finished the gruelling month-long challenge in Brazil last week....

21 OCT 2013   A Congleton family can't wait to welcome home a rower - Anton Wright- who has just become the first to paddle down the entire length of the River Amazon...

18 OCT 2013   Two Cambridge rowers have completed a month long row of the Amazon River...

17 OCT 2013   Guinness World Record smashed by Cambridge rowers...

16 OCT 2013   Viagem a remo pela costa do Brasil encerrou na segunda-feira, em Macapá. Dupla arrecadou fundos para instituição de caridade do Reino Unido...

15 OCT 2013   De laatste honderd kilometer van het ruim 3300 kilometer lange traject waren zwaar vanwege een sterke stroming vanuit zee. Bovendien waren ze allebei ''gebroken en ziek''....

15 OCT 2013   De Nederlander Mark de Rond en de Brit Anton Wright hebben in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag (lokale tijd) hun roeireis over de Amazonerivier voltooid...

15 OCT 2013   De Nederlander Mark de Rond en de Brit Anton Wright hebben in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag (lokale tijd) hun roeireis over de Amazonerivier voltooid...

15 OCT 2013   Judge Business School's Mark de Rond and Clare College rowing chief Anton Wright today completed their epic journey rowing the Amazon, having covered more than 2,000 miles in 31 days...

15 OCT 2013   The quick-witted thinking of a 14-year-old Brazilian boy rescued Cambridge Judge Business School's Mark de Rond and Clare College rowing coach Anton Wright close to the end of their Amazon rowing marathon...

14 OCT 2013   The Brazilian coast and the end of an epic adventure are in sight for Amazon rowers Mark de Rond and Anton Wright...

14 OCT 2013   An epic adventure along the Brazilian coast is almost over for two aspiring world record breakers. Dr Mark de Rond, a researcher in organisational behaviour at Cambridge Judge Business School and Anton Wright, chief rowing coach at Clare College, set off from Peru in their leaky boat four weeks ago in a bid to break the Guinness World Record for long-distance rowing unaided...

13 OCT 2013   Two rowers from the University of Cambridge are nearing the end of a gruelling 2,000 mile Amazon challenge. Mark de Rond, an academic from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School set off from Peru with his rowing partner Anton Wright four weeks ago....

8 OCT 2013   Mark de Rond and Anton Wright are closing in on their aim to be the first unsupported team to row the Amazon...

3 OCT 2013   A pair of Cambridge staff embarked upon their attempt to row the length of the Amazon earlier this month...

3 OCT 2013   Braving all the Amazon can throw at them, intrepid rowers Dr Mark de Rond, Anton Wright and Murilo Reis are now halfway through their historic attempt to row the entire length of the iconic river. If they make it, they will be the first to achieve this feat...

2 SEP 2013   Uniquely, the pair hope to achieve the feat without any support crew. The boat is scheduled to set off from Nauta, Peru with the goal of reaching Macapá, on the Brazilian coastline in mid-October...

1 SEP 2013   In the course of the next few days, the two gentlemen in the above photograph will take to the water of the Amazon. Their goal is to row the entire 2,077 mile length of the river unsupported, and in so doing become the first known to have ever achieved this feat...

28 AUG 2013   BBC Look East visits Mark de Rond and Anton Wright on their boat by the river Cam and interviews them about their upcoming unsupported row down the Amazon...

21 AUG 2013   Jeremy Sallis interviews Dr Mark de Rond on his and Anton Wright's row down the Amazon, what he's most worried about, and what the pair are hoping to achieve...

8 AUG 2013   The men will sleep in turns at night in order to keep watch for runaway logs which could destroy their boat, a bright yellow ocean-going double scull. They will also have to be vigilant of anacondas, bull sharks, thieves, illegal mining and logging operators trying to keep their locations secret and drug traffickers in the vast rainforest...

AUG 2013   Two intrepid Englishmen will set off on 1st September hoping to be the first to row the mighty Amazon from Nauta to the Atlantic Ocean...

30 JUL 2013   Polar Bears and Paddleboards, and Row the Amazon, are two local expeditions making use of real-time location technology developed by city firm Voyage Manager. More often used by companies to ensure the safety and security of their travelling staff, Dr Mark De Rond of Judge Business School and Anton Wright of Clare College, are taking Voyage Manager with them when they begin their epic journey the length of the Amazon in September...

15 JUL 2013   Mark de Rond of the Netherlands and Anton Wright of Britain will row the Amazon for six weeks in September. The 2,200-mile challenge will begin in Nauta, Peru on September 1 and will end in Macapa, Brazil ...

13 JUL 2013   The two adventurers will eat, sleep and carry all their food, water and medicine aboard a small vessel equipped with solar panels to power their communications, safety and navigation equipment ...

13 JUL 2013   The challenge aims to raise money for the Leonard Cheshire Disability, a charity which helps to support disabled people and the two will be tweeting their adventures by satphone and updating their website as they go ...

12 JUL 2013   A Briton and his Dutch rowing partner will brave piranhas, bandits and disease in an attempt to be the first crew to row the length of the Amazon river in September ...

2 JUL 2013   A two-man team from Cambridge is planning to enter the history books as the first men to row the length of the River Amazon unsupported. Dr Mark de Rond, reader in strategy and organisation at Cambridge's Judge Business School, and Anton Wright, the head coach and boatman for Clare College, will attempt the 2,200-mile row in September ...

26 JUN 2013   Dr Mark de Rond, Reader in Strategy & Organisation, Cambridge Judge Business School and Anton Wright, Chief Coach, Clare College and Coach, University Lightweights will row the entire length of the Amazon in September of this year ...