- 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.
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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
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: Jens Kwass is a German long-distance walker from Recklinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia. His documented walks include: a 5,250 km (3,260 miles) round trip from Recklinghausen to Santiago de Compostela and back (2012); a 4,000 km (2,500 miles) walk from Recklinghausen to Kazan, Russia (2015–2016), with a long winter break; and a 900 km (560 miles) walk from France to Santiago de Compostela (2011). His wider project, documented on his blog Wanderleben, aims to walk across as many countries as possible on all continents
- 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: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: http://www.wanderleben.com/
- 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: David William and John Allen Kunt undertook a walk around the world in the 1970s
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
David William e John Allen Kunt, rispettivamente 31 e 23 anni, amici del vice-presidente statunitenze Humphrey, stanno facendo il giro del mondo a piedi per aiutare lo UNICEF.
- Description: In 1949, Major Lamphier Thomas Junior of the American army set a new record by completing the journey described by Jules Verne in just 4 days and 23 hours. To highlight the Air Force Association's aviation awareness campaign, he circled the globe using scheduled airlines, covering 22'140 miles in under five days. Carrying a letter from President Harry Truman to commemorate the Wright brothers' first flight's 46th anniversary, he collected postmarks from 12 countries. Upon his return, the letter was presented to the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association to honor the Wright brothers' aviation milestone at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Plane, Aeroplano, Avion
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_George_Lanphier_Jr.
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7789984
- 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.
- Description: Walter Küpper was a German long-distance moped traveller. Inspired by a book about round-the-world motorcycle riders, he departed in 1959 on a 1.2 hp, three-speed Miele moped - which he had already tested the previous year on a holiday ride to Turkey - and completed a round-the-world journey over 902 days, returning in 1962. His route covered Europe, Turkey, Persia, India, Malaya and Australia. In Japan, media interest in his story had grown to such a degree that press were waiting for him at the dockside, and the Bridgestone Motorcycle Company donated a new moped for the final leg across the United States and back to Europe. In the United States, by contrast, his journey attracted no attention. He covered approximately 72,000 km (45,000 miles) in total and recorded five hours of Super-8 cine film during the journey. He recounted his experiences in Tausend Tage Abenteuer ("One Thousand Days of Adventure"), published in 1966
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Moped, Motorino, Cyclomoteur
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.berndtesch.de
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Küpper, Walter. Tausend Tage Abenteuer. Munich: F. Schneider, 1966.
- Description: Eitel Lange was a German photographer who had served as official photographer to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring during World War II. Between 1952 and 1954, he and his son Rolf Lange completed a round-the-world journey on a 597 cc, 28 hp Zündapp KS 601 flat-twin with a Steib sidecar, nicknamed "Taksy" - a name derived, according to Bernd Tesch, from "take it easy". Their route covered Europe (Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Turkey), Asia (Iran, Pakistan, India, Ceylon, then by ship to Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan, riding overland in Japan), and the Americas (by ship to Hawaii, then North America, returning by ship to Europe). During the journey they interviewed film star Errol Flynn and met Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran. The "Taksy" sidecar outfit is on permanent display at the German Motorcycle Museum in Neckarsulm. The journey contributed significantly to the legendary status of the Zündapp KS 601, known as the "Green Elephant". In 1956-57, Eitel Lange and his wife Ilse completed a further one-year round-the-world journey, this time in a Goggomobil T 300 microcar
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- 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: Lange, Eitel. Weltfahrt: Mit Motorrad und Kamera. 1954. Trad. inglese: Around the World with Motorcycle and Camera. Los Angeles: Floyd Clymer Publications, 1957.
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