- Description: Romina Maffeis and Francesco Riva, who set off in January 2009 from Bangkok on a tandem bicycle, headed for Origlio (Switzerland)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Switzerland, Svizzera, Suisse
- 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
- Multimedia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZCJHkQnkjE
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Riva F., Maffeis R., Hello byebye, La Regione Ticino, 11.04.2009. Riva F., Maffeis R., Là dove finiva la Cina, La Regione Ticino, 07.07.2009.
- Description: Departing on November 6, 2005, Béatrice Maine traveled solo with her bicycle for 3 years, visiting 20 countries and covering 27'000 km
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- 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: https://www.beatricemaine.com/blog/
- Description: Tony Mangan is a runner who traveled around the world for charity. The 'World Jog' started at the Dublin Marathon on October 25, 2010, from east to west: North America, South America, Australia, Asia, and finally back to Europe
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Ireland, Irlanda, Irlande
- 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/Tony_Mangan
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13519847
Tony's world run the understated ' World Jog ', began with his participation in the Dublin Marathon on 25 October 2010. He moved from east to west, commencing in Ireland North America, before proceeding to Central and South America and on to Australia, Asia and Europe before returning to Ireland. He finished on 27 October 2014, to finish where he started with the Dublin marathon.
- Description: World tour organized at the end of the 1920s by two Swiss: Corbond and Maret
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Switzerland, Svizzera, Suisse
- 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
Il giro del mondo in motocicletta. Due motociclisti svizzeri, l'ex aviatore Corbond di Friborgo ed il meccanico Maret di Neuchâtel, partiranno il 15 ottobre prossimo da Berna per compiere il giro del mondo in motocicletta.
- Description: Charles Maglia Karl made his first round-the-world trip taking more than five years. The second tour was the result of a bet with the supposed 'Societè Sportive Hollandaise'
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Roi des voyageurs
- 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
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Wette 34'000 Mark. Die reise zu Fuss in 3 1/2 Jahren um die Erde. tour du monde à pied en 3 1/2 ans, prix 42.500 francs
- Description: In the 1930s, Richard Mainzer traveled the roads of Europe accompanied by a barrel
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- 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: Europe, Europa
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Der Fassroller: Richard Mainzer, Eller (Mosel)
- Description: Departing from Valentino on April 16, 2011, Diego Mariani and Marco Lugliengo were headed to Australia on Vespa
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Starwaytosidney
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- 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
Pronti a partire: un rapido bilancio dei risparmi per stabilire il budget (6-7 mila euro); vaccinazioni (almeno quindici); percorso (Italia, Albania, Grecia, Turchia, Iran, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Australia), permessi e soprattutto il mezzo. «Uno scooter. La sua lentezza permette di attraversare un Paese con tutti i sensi ed è straordinario perché ti entra nella pelle e non te lo scordi più. Lo racconteremo ogni lunedì a mezzogiorno su Radio Flash».
- Description: Sylvette Marmeuse travels across Switzerland on foot to raise awareness about unemployment and cross-border issues. A 55-year-old from Fribourg, she started from Le Locle and covered 3'000 km
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Switzerland, Svizzera, Suisse
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1954-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Internet: https://www.rtn.ch/rtn/Actualite/Regionale/141209Retour-de-Sylvette.html
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: LaRegioneTicino, 16 luglio 2009.
- Description: A versatile and travel-enthusiast from Geneva, in the 1930s, set off for Russia, Turkestan, China, Central Asia. She drew from these experiences to write several successful books; in 1939, she reached India by car along with Annemarie Schwarzenbach, a journey that was turned into a work titled "The Cruel Way, Two Women's Journey from Europe to Kabul". In 2025, the Executive Board of UNESCO approved the inclusion of the archives of writers Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Ella Maillart in the international “Memory of the World” Register
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Kini
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Switzerland, Svizzera, Suisse
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1903-1997
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: http://www.ellamaillart.ch
- Multimedia: https://memobase.ch/it/recordSet/sla-001
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19685776
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Maillart E., Oasi proibite: una donna in viaggio da Pechino al Kashmir, EDT, 2001. Ella Maillart – Double Journey, Antonio Bigini, Mariann Lewinsky Sträuli, 2015.
- Description: Bicycle journey through the lowest points of the six continent
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- 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: -
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Malusa J., Into thick air: biking to the bellybutton of six continents, San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 2008.
With plenty of sunscreen and a cold beer swaddled in his sleeping bag, writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycled alone to the lowest point on each of six continents, a six-year series of “anti-expeditions” to the “anti-summits.”
- Description: Setting off on March 3, 1954, for a tour of Africa on a Lambretta LD scooter, Serge Gauquelin and Jean-Claude Marcq returned 15 months later, on June 11, 1956
- 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: Africa
- Description: On April 25, 2001, Alberto Fiorin, Aldo Maroso, and eight other friends set off from Venice on bicycles headed for Beijing. The Silk Road required 96 days of effort for a total of 12'000 kilometers
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Silk Road, Via della seta, Route de la soie
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Maroso A., Fiorin A., Strade d’Oriente : in bicicletta da Venezia a Pechino, Ediciclo editore, 2003.
Classe 1949, docente di matematica per professione, è, invece, per passione, cicloturista ed escursionista. Ha partecipato alla spedizione Bassano - Mosca in bici nel 1989, ha esplorato (in gommone e mountain bike) i gulag staliniani in Siberia, ha vissuto, sempre in bici, l’avventura Venezia – Pechino, 12000 km lungo la via della seta (2001).
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