Family, friends, residents of Police, local authorities as well government representatives bid the last farewell to Poland's legendary adventurer and kayaker Aleksander Doba. He was posthumously decorated with the Order of Polonia Restituta.
On February 22, Aleksander Doba died aged 74 after reaching the summit of Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain.
The "pensioner adventurer", as he had been nicknamed, was posthumously awarded for "outstanding achievements in promoting Poland across the world".
Poland's national treasure crossed the Atlantic in a kayak three times - he embarked on the first of the iconic journeys in 2010, when he was 65 and completed it in 2011. He finished his second westward sail in 2014, and an eastward one in 2017.
In 2015, Mr Doba was awarded the People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year by the National Geographic Society.
He also earned a number Guinness World Records titles, including the first to kayak across the Atlantic in both directions.
The adventurer was born on September 9, 1975. Until 1975 he lived in the town of Swarzędz near Poznań, and then he moved with his family to Police where they finally settled.
Źródło: TVN24 News in English, PAP