ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 3月26日 06時51分

Why would anyone kayak across an ocean at 70 years old? Ask Aleksander Doba. When he kayaked into the port in Le Conquet, France, on September 3, 2017, he’d just completed his 3rd — and by far most dangerous — solo trans-Atlantic kayak trip. He’d been at sea 110 days, alone, having last touched land that May at New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay. The trip could have easily ended 5 days earlier, when he was just a few hundred feet off the British coast. But Aleksander had promised himself that he would kayak not just to Europe but to the Continent proper. He maintains that his need to cross the Atlantic in a kayak didn’t originate within him. “With my hand on my heart, it wasn’t my idea,” Aleksander told @nytmag in January. “I was infected with a virus.” Ocean kayaking is catastrophically monotonous. The primary challenge is not physical. Aleksander describes the tedium as a form of dementia: “Hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of repetitions. The brain is removed from the process.” Joakim Eskildsen photographed him at his home in Police, in the northwest of Poland, in January. Swipe left to see photos of Aleksander with Mr. Olek, the kayak he uses on rivers near his home, and Olo, the kayak he used to cross the North Atlantic in 2017.

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