Rob Hamill is one of New Zealand's most storied and decorated
rowers - a silver at the World Championships in 1994, the winner
of the first ever Atlantic Rowing Race in '97, and a man who has
lived a life most people couldn't imagine. But beneath the
athletic achievements is a story that shaped everything.
When Rob was 14, his older brother Kerry went missing while
sailing through Southeast Asia on his OE. Sixteen months of
silence followed. His parents wrote letter after letter to ports
across Asia, hoping for news that never came. When it finally
did, it arrived on the front page of a newspaper: Kerry had been
blown off course into Cambodian waters, captured by the Khmer
Rouge, tortured for months at the infamous Tuol Sleng Prison, and
executed.
In this conversation, we get into grief, resilience, forgiveness,
and what it means to carry loss through a life lived at full
throttle.
Rob shares the extraordinary details of Kerry's forced confession
— and the extraordinary messages his brother managed to hide
inside it.
He talks about rowing across the Atlantic and discovering, alone
in the middle of the ocean, that he had never truly grieved.
He talks about testifying at the War Crimes Tribunal in Cambodia
thirty years later. About losing his other brother, John, in the
aftermath. And about why, in 2018, he and his family set sail to
circle the globe — finishing the journey Kerry never got to
complete.
Please note: this episode talks about suicide. If you or someone
you know is struggling, free help is available through Lifeline,
call 0508 TAUTOKO, that’s 0508 828 865.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Rob Hamill's TEDx Talk — On Forgiveness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q87a7KNq2YQ
Matt Brown — The Barbershop Where Men Go to Heal |
TEDxChristchurch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UhP3OZ9ZCE
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