In a sad bit of irony, a 43-year-old British schoolteacher and adventurer was killed on a solo kayaking trip through the Amazon days after posting a Facebook status about her being killed if she continued to paddle on.
Emma Kelty’s comment on Sept. 10 is being described as a joke by some, but it expressed a real fear, a warning she had apparently been given about a stretch of river known as the most lawless of the Amazon, a place run by pirates and drug runners.
