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Article: COLORADANS, COMPANIONS RUN BLUE NILE EXPEDITION CALLED 1ST COMPLETE DESCENT OF ANCIENT WATERWAY.(City Desk/Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- April 29, 2004
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Byline: Owen S. Good, Rocky Mountain News
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
An expedition led by a Colorado man has succeeded in what is being called the first complete descent of the Nile from its origin in Ethiopia.
Pasquale Scaturro, 50, of Lakewood, and Gordon Brown, 42, of California, were joined by two other Coloradans - Mike Prosser, of Wheat Ridge, and Kurt Hoppe, of Highlands Ranch - when the 3,253-mile odyssey began Dec. 25.
Scaturro, reached late Wednesday in Cairo by phone, paused when asked what it meant to join a legacy of exploration that literally dates to the beginnings of recorded history.
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