- Description: Journey through Europe undertaken by Horst Kluckmann in 1972 with a horse-drawn cart
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Wagon, Carro, Char
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Europa-Reise 1972
- Description: Lars Olof Göran Kropp was a Swedish adventurer and mountaineer, the first Scandinavian to climb Mount Everest without oxygen. For his 1996 ascent, Kropp left Stockholm on October 16, 1995, on a specially designed bicycle. He cycled 13'000 km to Everest Base Camp, arriving in April 1996. On May 3, he reached Everest's South Summit, just 100 meters from the peak. However, he decided to turn back as it was too late and he would have had to descend in the dark. Three weeks later, on May 23, he successfully reached the summit without extra oxygen support. Afterwards, he cycled part of the way back home
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Swede, Svezia, Suède
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1966-2002
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa, Asia
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ran_Kropp
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1559451
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Kropp Göran, Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey. Discovery Books, 1999
- Description: Born on 9 August 1936 in India, Satish Kumar, a former Jain monk and peace activist, set off from New Delhi in June 1962 together with his friend E. P. Menon on a peace pilgrimage to the four nuclear capitals of the world - Moscow, Paris, London and Washington D.C. The two walked approximately 12,875 km (8,000 miles) in two and a half years, carrying no money and relying entirely on the hospitality of strangers. The route passed through Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, the Soviet Union, Poland, East and West Germany, Belgium, France, England, the United States and Japan. Along the way they delivered a packet of "peace tea" to the leaders of each nuclear power. The journey is recounted in Kumar's book Pilgrimage for Peace (2020)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: India
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1936-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satish_Kumar
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1105898
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Kumar, Satish. Pilgrimage for Peace: The Long Walk from India to Washington. Totnes: Green Books, 2020.
- Description: Tété-Michel Kpomassie is a Togolese explorer whose incredible adventure story is told in his book "An African in Greenland". Fascinated by a book on Greenland as a young man, he decided to embark on an extraordinary journey to the far north. Over eight years, he traversed Africa and Europe, working and traveling, to fulfill his dream of visiting Greenland. Arriving in the cold Arctic, Kpomassie immersed himself in the culture and life of the Greenlanders, living among the Inuit and adapting to their traditional ways of life. His book offers a unique and deeply personal perspective on Greenland, seen through the eyes of an African who crossed the world to explore it
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Togo
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1941-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_African_in_Greenland
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1362987
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Kpomassie T., An african in Greenland, New York Review Books, 2001.
- Description: Enrico Kuff embarked on the endeavor of walking around the world in 1954. By 1959, he had traveled 68'180 kilometers
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
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- Description: The brothers Dave and John Kunst were the first people to officially undertake a walk around the world. The adventure began on June 20, 1970, from Waseca and ended on October 5, 1974. Only Dave completed the 14'500-mile journey: his brother John was fatally shot by a gang of bandits in Afghanistan. Their other brother, Pete, joined Dave from the point where John was killed
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Earthwalkers
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Kunst
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5229138
Minnesotan's around-the-world walk remembered, 30 years later. It took four years, 21 million steps and 22 pairs of leather shoes for Dave Kunst to complete his record-making and tragedy-marred 14,450-mile walk around the Earth in 1974.
- Description: Ray's travels with his bicycle in Tibet
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: -
- Internet: http://raykreisel.com
- Multimedia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNhlKM63EVs
- Description: Inspired by Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence, Prem Kumar, a student of physics, international politics and Indian philosophy at Gujarat University, departed from Ahmadabad, India, on 2 October 1982 on a solo peace walk around the world. The route passed through Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Japan. After nearly four years and approximately 8,000 miles (12,875 km) across 14 countries, he planned to conclude his march in Nagasaki on 9 August 1986 - the 41st anniversary of the atomic bomb. He carried no sponsorship and relied entirely on donations
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: India
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Ito, Sheldon. "His Solo Peace Walk Follows a Well-Worn Tradition." Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1986.
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Peace Walk Around The World
- Description: The brothers Dave and John Kunst were the first people to officially undertake a walk around the world. The adventure began on June 20, 1970, from Waseca and ended on October 5, 1974. Only Dave completed the 14'500-mile journey: his brother John was fatally shot by a gang of bandits in Afghanistan. Their other brother, Pete, joined Dave from the point where John was killed
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Earthwalkers
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
Minnesotan's around-the-world walk remembered, 30 years later. It took four years, 21 million steps and 22 pairs of leather shoes for Dave Kunst to complete his record-making and tragedy-marred 14,450-mile walk around the Earth in 1974.
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