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Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.

Abby Sunderland

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Awful Dawned Lines Moment Perfectly Something
I’m one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Boat Broke Broken Cape Drifting Horn Ocean
When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Astonished Crazy Fear Joy Surging Two
The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

heavy Inescapable Physic Sea
I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn’t likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Able Helping Place Remote
I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Feeling Home Indian Ocean Walking
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Game Mental Ocean Past Physical
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Fall Ripped Sea Terror
Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Dangerous Most Sailor Solo
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Break Course Records World Sail Unassisted Youngest
I had begun to think that dreams are meant to be no more than dreams and that in reality dreams don’t come true. Then my brother (Zac) left on his trip.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Begun Believe Brother Dream More
If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Drowning Eight Twenty Water
The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby’s boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Eye Piece Pushing Running Struggled Wind
One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Alone Around Dad Day One Year
On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Eye June Ocean Strom Swept
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
ABBY SUNDERLAND

Build Eye Feet High Speed Wall Water

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