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- Description: On February 22, 2009, Mark Gibbens started his walking journey from Perth. The trek concluded at Sydney's Civic Park on May 18 of the same year. The purpose of the initiative was to raise funds for prostate cancer research
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Australia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Australia
- Internet: http://www.redcrossfundraising.org.au/mark_gibbens_9
Meet Mark Gibbens, a 50 year old Australian Registered Nurse and Ultra Distance Walker.
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- Description: Tony Giles is a British traveller who is blind and severely hearing impaired. Since the 1990s he has visited more than 100 countries across all inhabited continents. He frequently travels independently, relying on public transport and self-directed planning. His journeys are documented in Seeing the Americas My Way (2008) and Seeing the World My Way (2017). Travel constitutes the central axis of his public identity and represents a documented case of contemporary global mobility with sensory disability
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1958-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://www.tonythetraveller.com
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Giles, Tony. Seeing the Americas My Way. London: TGS Publishing, 2008. Giles, Tony. Seeing the World My Way. London: TGS Publishing, 2017.
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- Description: Serge Girard is a French ultramarathon runner. Prior to his world circumnavigation he set several continental running records: USA Los Angeles - New York City, 4,597 km in 52 days (1997); Australia Perth - Sydney, 3,755 km in 46 days (1999); South America Lima - Rio de Janeiro, 5,235 km in 73 days (2001); Africa Dakar - Cairo, 8,295 km in 123 days (2003-2004); Eurasia Paris - Shanghai, 11,538 km in 161 days (2005-2006). Between 2016 and 8 April 2017 he completed a solo running circumnavigation of the world covering 26,245 km across five continents and 18 countries in 434 days - without a single rest day - setting the current men's world record certified by the World Runners Association (WRA)
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, À pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://sergegirard.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3479331
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- Description: Yanko Gluscevic was a Chilean cattle rancher, aviator and karate instructor. In 1972, during the agrarian reform of Salvador Allende's Unidad Popular government, he lost his ranch and left Chile, becoming, in his own words, "a globetrotter who travelled, lived and worked in more than forty countries over five years." Between 1969 and 1989 he travelled the world by motorcycle through more than 40 countries, including a journey through Africa during the Rhodesian Bush War. In the 1980s he returned to Chile and founded Rancho Río Sol, described as the first adventure tourism complex in Chile, running fifteen-day horse expeditions into the Andes. In the 1990s he founded Yanko Moto Tours (YMT), organising enduro motorcycle tours through the Bolivian Amazon, the Atacama Desert and Patagonia. He recounted his travels in the English-language Yanko, published by Trafford Publishing, Canada, in 2004, and later translated into Spanish as Yanko: Una lucha por sobrevivir
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Chile, Cile, Chili
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Gluscevic, Yanko. Yanko. Trafford Publishing, Canada, 2004. Gluscevic, Yanko. Yanko: Una lucha por sobrevivir. 2023.
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- Description: In 1996, two globetrotters replicated a journey undertaken by two women in 1956 from New York to Los Angeles
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
- Internet: https://peggynewland.com
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Goetz P. N., Goetz B., The adventure of two lifetimes, Liberty Corner, Anacus Press, 2001.
The Today Show, June 24, 1956. June Meyer tells David Garroway that she is looking forward to “the adventure of a lifetime” as she and her friend Teri Foster leave New York City on a pair of three-speed Schwinns. Neither has any bicycle touring experience, but they want to get to California and see as much of the country as possible along the way. Ninety days later, their adventure concludes in Los Angeles.
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- Description: In 2015, Jean-Hugues Gooris embarked on a 100-day bicycle journey from Malaga to Bastogne, which he documented in a film. This project proved to be a success, turning him into an established documentary filmmaker who continued to explore and document inspiring stories in lesser-known or conflict-ridden areas
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Belgium, Belgio, Belgique
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://terrexplore.com/
- Multimedia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUR_0JWduQk
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- Description: In 1986, hundreds of people walked from Los Angeles to the capital Washington DC. The initiative, called the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament, aimed to raise awareness about the dangers and damages of nuclear energy. The participants took nine months to cover 3'700 miles (6'000 km)
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- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Internet: http://www.greatpeacemarch.org
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5599742
In 1986, about 1200 of us left Los Angeles to begin a nine-month march for disarmament--our destination Washington DC. PRO-Peace, a group formed by David Mixner, had planned the march, but expected 5,000 people to show.
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- Description: On December 31, 2012, Thomas Grosserichter set a Guinness World Record by cycling 28'500 km. The German started and finished his journey in Berlin, completing it in 105 days
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: http://www.cyclingtheworld.de
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- Description: Born in 1993 in Malo, province of Vicenza, Italy, Nicolò Guarrera departed from his hometown on 9 August 2020 to walk around the world, pushing a trekking stroller he named Ezio carrying all his equipment. After five years he returned to Italy on 31 August 2025, having covered 36,146 km (22,466 miles) across four continents wearing out 20 pairs of shoes. The route passed through France, Spain, Central and South America (from Panama to Ushuaia), Australia (Sydney to Darwin), India, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Armenia, Turkey and the Balkans. Non-walking stretches (ocean crossing, inter-continental transfers) were made by boat and plane
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Pieroad
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1993-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.pieroad.it