São Paulo, June 14, 2002

Gazette of Ipiranga Interview of the Week: Dan Robson, the adventurer of the neighborhood.

The Adventurer Dan Robson Dias, 32 years old, 61 days alone it will pass inside of a cave, in the Parque Petar, Loud of the Riverside, 320 kilometers of São Paulo. He announces of the project " Petar61 ", that has beginning July 28, 2002, and it will only finish September 28, 2002. But this is not first adventure of Dan Robson. In 2001, he traveled to foot the whole Brazilian coast. left December 31, 2000 of Chuí, in Rio Grande do Sul and it arrived in Oiapoque, Amapá on December 30, 2001.

Athlete Dan Robson was resident of Ipiranga and the first to accomplish the adventure. Capable in dive, it hunts submarine, technique in picture and environmental filmings, survival in the jungle, First Aid, rappel and escalades in rocks, the athlete dreams about the next adventure, In 2005, he breaks for the second stage of the project " Areias365 ", that leaves Oiapoque and you/ is going to Chile, See interview that Dan Robson granted the Gazette of Ipiranga.

GI: so much time to Pass at a cave it doesn't scare?
Dan Robson: I am getting ready for this adventure since the beginning of the year. I am not afraid, I think will be calm.
GI: the cave is totally dark and it can neither use clock nor calendar. How will you know how long it is there inside?
Dan Robson: outside a team, with psychologist of the Universidade São Marcos, they will be inside every 15 days with me of the cave for an evaluation and I am well.

GI: as well as the project äreias365 ", will " Petar61 " also become a book?
Dan Robson: Yes the book will call " himself one day and 61 Noites"e it will be at the bookstores and you support one week after I leave the cave. I will take a lot of pictures and to register the behavior of the you be that there live and your alterations in the direct contact with the human being. Everything will be in the book.

GI: were You always adventurous?
Dan Robson: I didn't always practice sports, but I was system analyst. Hours and hours it passed in front of a computer, there are about two years I decided to release everything and to leave for the adventure. A form that I found of to have the life quality that I want and to accomplish the dream of knowing other people and places was.

GI: do You have programmed adventures until when?
Dan Robson: Para up to 2011, when I close the project Areias365 in 2007, I will Walk from Chile to Chui(RS), AND during the intervals I will accomplish more complex projects.

GI: What did THE ONE take you to choose the Park of Petar for this adventure?
Dan Robson: THE Park of Petar is one of the oldest of the State of São Paulo, with area of 35.000 alqueires, that protects and it protects the rich natural patrimony of the area in the High of the Riverside, for the importance of the biodiversity of the Atlantic forest remainder, for the ranch paleontólogicos and archaeological, and to shelter one of the provinces more important espeleológicas of Brazil with more than 250 registered caves.