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Length: 6,500 miles (10,500 km) Date: April 1982 – December 1983 Distance walked per month: 342 miles (550 km) Details: This peace walk of about 20 core people started from Seattle and walked across the U.S. to Washington, D.C. Members then flew to Ireland and walked through much of Europe, taking a boat from Greece to the Middle East.
A walk around of the island of Bornholm (120 km (75 mi)). Camønoen A walk on the island of Møn (175 km (109 mi)). Sjællandsleden is a trail around Sjælland. Kyst til kyst stien A 140 km long hike across Jutland from Blåvandshuk to Vejle Map
Beliveau became the fifth man to be independently verified as having walked around the world. Walking for 11 years and covering 75,000 km, Beliveau's walk is the longest continuous world walk and has preliminary qualification stage for recognition under the WRA guidelines. [citation needed] Date Aug. 18, 2000 – Oct. 15, 2011 Duration
The Great Walks network was established by the Department of Conservation in 1992. [1] The network was established both as a way to advertise hiking in New Zealand, but also as a means of managing and conserving the most popular tracks which were increasingly being damaged by unrestricted tourism.
Alan Booth, The Roads to Sata: A Two-Thousand-Mile Walk Through Japan (1985). Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts (1977), Between the Woods and the Water (1986), and The Broken Road (2013); describes a walk across Europe in the 1930s. John Hillaby Journey to the Jade Sea (1964); an account of an African walking tour using camels as pack animals.
Great Baikal Trail is a series of trails in Russia projected to be finished in 2014. National Blue Trail in Hungary is 1,168 km (725 mi) long. Trans-Panama Trail in Panama is 1,100 km (680 mi) long. South West Coast Path in the United Kingdom is around 1,000 km (620 mi). Bibbulmun Track in Australia is around 1,000 km (620 mi).
Dave Kunst (born July 16, 1939) is the first person independently verified to have walked around the Earth. [1] The walk was intended to be achieved along with his brother John, but during the event John was shot and killed by bandits, and Dave wounded; Dave resumed and completed the walk with another brother, Peter.
Ffyona Campbell (born 1967 in Totnes, Devon) is an English long distance walker who walked around the world between 1983 and 1995.She set off at the age of 16 and covered 32,000 kilometres (20,000 mi) over 11 years and raised £180,000 for charity.
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