A historic OCEAN STUDIO 'multi-sport' adventure begins in January 2009, as a small, dedicated band of expedicionistas set off to traverse the South American continent – and document their journey for broadcast on a major U. S. television network.

Former Olympic paddling legend Chris Spelius, his Chilean wife Rosie and their young daughter Chiloe will star in the film and the rest of us will be the supporting cast, helping to show to the world why this great international treasure, beautiful, still wild Patagonia, deserves to be protected and preserved for posterity.

We begin by traveling with sea kayaks along the Atlantic seacoast of Argentina and then up though the great lake and river system that threads through the mountains at this latitude. After literally paddling through the Andes to cross the Argentina/Chile border, we pause for a night at the rustic Exchile lodge in Pueblo Futaleufu to rest and charge batteries. While there we take the opportunity to return on foot back up into the high Andes to the continental divide and breathtaking vistas of our westward route ahead – that same immense Valdez rainforest that terrified the Spanish Conqistadores, who considered it impenetrable. Yet Expediciones Chile's smiling head huaso (Chilean cowboy) Domingo awaits us there with his herd of fine caballos correnleros (sure-footed mountain horses, complete with their traditional sheepskin saddles and wooden stirrups). We ride on horseback with Domingo for two days down the Rio Futaleufu and make camp one night at a rustic working sheep farm deep in the remote wilderness. When the river canyons narrow and the horses can pass no further, Chris Spelius, his team of top river guides and their fleet of tough expedition quality big water rafts are ready to get us through the legendary class V whitewater of the 30,000 cfs Futa safely, but not without some heart-pounding thrills and excitement. Then, when the last deep Andean canyon opens to the blue Patagonian sky and the big rapids are behind us, we switch back to sea kayaks to continue down the lower Futaleufu and into vast Lago Yelcho. For three more days we paddle through a temperate zone paradise, following the full length of the spectacular lake as it winds through the snow-capped western Andes from which great waterfalls tumble down. Where the lake ends El Rio Yelcho begins, flowing westward to its confluence with the Pacific Ocean. On the final day of our journey we kayak north along the Pacific coast to the quaint little seacoast pueblo of Chaiten, now sadly buried beneath ash and mud and abandoned after the catastrophic eruption of Volcán Chaiten last May. Yet our mood is triumphant, because here at the edge of the great western sea our epic journey to discover and explore the elusive northern route across South America that Magellan sought but never found, has come to its end.