- Description: In 1953, a journey of 23'000 km between Paris and Tibet was completed on a Lambretta Type D
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Lambretta
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa, Asia
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Guy Camba, De Paris au Thibet, Le Sycomore
- Description: Albino Capretta, a teacher from Valdobbiadene, reached India in 1955, starting from Valdobbiadene on his Lambretta
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1922-2003
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Lambretta
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa, Asia
- Internet: https://www.qdpnews.it/comuni/valdobbiadene/in-india-con-la-mia-lambretta-valdobbiadene-celebra-il-maestro-albino-capretta-con-il-racconto-del-suo-viaggio/
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Albino Capretta, In India con la mia Lambretta, Grafiche Antiga, Crocetta del Montello – TV, 1988
A Bigolino vengo fermato da un gruppo della “Valdobbiadene” e la rappresentante della Pro Loco, Lina Miotto, mi cinge d’una corona di fiori, alla moda indiana.
- Description: In April 2004, Barbara Egbert, Gary Chambers, and their 10-year-old daughter Mary began a 6-month journey along the Pacific Crest Trail. This is a 2'650-mile trail that crosses the United States, connecting Canada to Mexico
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- 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: Pacific Crest Trail
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Egbert B., Zero Days: The Real Life Adventure of Captain Bligh, Nellie Bly, and 10-Year-Old Scrambler on the Pacific Crest Trail, Wilderness Press, 2007.
In April 2004, Barbara Egbert and Gary Chambers began a six-month journey to hike the length of the Pacific Crest Trail with their precocious 10-year-old daughter, Mary. That October, Mary became the youngest person ever to successfully walk the 2,650-mile route from Mexico to Canada.
- Description: Ffyona Campbell is an English long-distance walker. Between 1983 and October 1994 she completed four consecutive long-distance walks covering approximately 32,000 km (20,000 miles) across four continents over 11 years: the length of Britain (1983), the United States from New York to Los Angeles (1984-1986), Australia from Sydney to Perth (1988), and Africa from Cape Town to Tangier (1991-1993), followed by Europe back to John o' Groats. She raised £180,000 for charities including Raleigh International and Survival International. In 1994 she was hailed as the first woman to have walked around the world. In 1996, however, she admitted in her book The Whole Story that during the American leg she had accepted approximately 1,000 miles of rides in her support vehicle; Guinness World Records subsequently withdrew her associated titles. She later rewalked the American section to complete it legitimately
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Scottish, Scozzese, Ecossais
- 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/Ffyona_Campbell
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1937511
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Campbell, Ffyona. Feet of Clay: On Foot through Australia. 1991. Campbell, Ffyona. On Foot through Africa. London: Orion, 1994. Campbell, Ffyona. The Whole Story: A Walk Around the World. London: Orion, 1996.
Starting from John O'Groats on the northernmost coast of Scotland in 1983, 16-year-old Ffyona Campbell set out on an epic walk that would take her around the world. Eleven years and 19,586 miles later, she returned to the starting point, having raised £120,000 for charity.
- Description: Ben Carlin circumnavigated the globe in an amphibious jeep with his wife Elinore. Departing in 1950 from Montreal, Canada, Ben completed the journey in 1958, covering 62'000 km by land and 17'000 km by sea. The amphibious vehicle is displayed at the Guildford Grammar School
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Australia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1912-1981
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carlin
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4885392
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Carlin B., Half-Safe: Across the Atlantic in an Amphibious Jeep, Morrow, 1955.
First circumnavigation by amphibious car
“Frederick Benjamin “Ben” Carlin (Australia) and his American wife Elinore left Montreal, Canada, in Half-Safe, a modified Ford GPA amphibious jeep, on 24 July 1950 intent on travelling around the world over land and sea. It proved to be an eventful trip – Elinore left her husband in India and filed for divorce – but eventually Ben arrived back in Montreal on 8 May 1958, after travelling 62’765 km (39’000 miles) over land and 15’450 km (9’600 miles) by water. For the trans-Pacific stage (Tokyo, Japan, to Anchorage in Alaska, USA), Carlin was joined by The Japan Times journalist Boyé Lafayette De Mente.
Source: Guinness Book of World Records 2014
- Description: Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran undertook an initiative called 'The Ridiculous Race,' which was described in their 2008 book of the same name. The two challenged each other to travel around the world by land, starting from Los Angeles, one heading east and the other west
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Hely, Steve, and Vali Chandrasekaran. The Ridiculous Race: 26,000 Miles, 2 Guys, 1 Globe, No Airplanes. New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2008.
- Description: Around the world trip on a Vespa by Luca Capocchiano in 2014, a project documented in the book titled Around the World at 80 Miles an Hour
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1978-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Vespa
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Multimedia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC3RZusC-5k
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Capocchiano Luca. 2020. Il giro del mondo a 80 all'ora. Parte 1. Viterbo: La Caravella.
Luca Capocchiano nasce nell’agosto del 1978 a Genova, da padre muratore pugliese e madre insegnante piemontese. Completa gli studi di ingegneria meccanica, esclusivamente per dare corso e struttura alla sua più grande passione: le moto da corsa.
- Description: Albert Casals is a Spanish wheelchair traveler who became paraplegic after childhood leukemia. Beginning in 2006, while still a teenager, he embarked on independent journeys across Europe and later Asia and other continents. He frequently traveled with limited financial means, relying on hitchhiking and private hospitality. His routes included countries in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa. He documented his experiences in El mundo sobre ruedas (2009), which focuses on autonomous travel with a mobility impairment
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Spain, Spagna, Espagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1990-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Wheelchair, Sedia a rotelle, Fauteuil roulant
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Casals_i_Serrad%C3%B3
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28753842
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Casals, Albert. El mundo sobre ruedas. Barcelona: Plaza & Janés, 2009.
- Description: In January 2010, Daniel Chapin, a youth advocate and activist from Orange County, California, embarked on a walk from California to Tennessee and then to Washington D.C., with a brief rest in Nashville, Tennessee. This journey was organized to promote community solidarity and raise awareness of the importance of faith-based youth programs across the nation. Chapin, a youth pastor and marriage counselor, was inspired by his experiences with young people in Garden Grove, California. He noted a lack of community and unity in churches, often marked by division and doctrinal differences. Throughout his journey across America's heartland, Chapin was hosted at various venues that shared his vision of inter-community solidarity, such as the Roadrunner Hostel in Tucson, Arizona, and spoke at churches, city halls, and similar places. He completed the walk without a cell phone or support vehicles, relying on teams and individuals he met along the way for travel arrangements and accommodations
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- 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: USA
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