Kon-Tiki man sick.(News)

From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: April 6, 2002 | Copyright information

KON-TIKI adventurer Thor Heyerdahl is seriously ill in hospital.

The Norwegian gained world fame with a 4,300- mile Pacific voyage.

He sailed a balsa log raft from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 to back his theories on human migration.

Later he made expeditions on reed rafts t...

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