RAE LECTURER WAS AWARDED WITH A MEDAL BY THE PERUVIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Jacek Pałkiewicz, Radom Academy of Economics lecturer was awarded with a medal for the exploration achievements.


The prize was awarded by the Peruvian Geographical Society in Lima that in 1996 has considerably supported the educational expedition conducted by Jacek Pałkiewicz. The outcome of the expedition was solving one of the latest geographical puzzle by Jacek Pałkiewicz who managed to establish the root of the Amazon river which is the longest river in the world. Jacek Pałkiewicz is a reporter, a founder of the Italian Survival School, one of the most active traveler and explorer of the present times, an explorer of the root of the Amazon river, a genuine member of the Royal Geographical Society of London.

As a young man he was serving as an officer of the Panama banner ship, he was working in the gold mine in Ghana in the depth of 1660 below sea level, he has also the experience as a diamond searcher in Sierra Leone. Jacek PaBkiewicz was cooperating with the Russian Spaceman Training Centre in the survival programme. He was also teaching strategies of survival in various climatic conditions to the elitist special entities. In 1975 he sailed the Atlantic ocean on his own in a 5-meter lifeboat without a radio and a sextant. He was supervising multiple international expeditions searching for the remnants of disappearing civilizations, unusual phenomena or people. He is the author of more than 20 books and press reports.

Jacek Pałkiewicz is a lecturer of Personal Training at Radom Academy of Economics.