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George Meegan. George Meegan (2 December 1952 – 10 January 2024) was a British adventurer and alternative educator best known for his unbroken walk of the Western Hemisphere from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay. This journey was 19,019 miles (30,608 km) on foot, completed in 2,426 days [1 ...
A Walk of the People – A Pilgrimage for Life. Length: 7,000 miles (11,000 km) Date: March 1984 – November 1985. Miles walked per month: 368 miles (592 km) Details: A Walk of the People – A Pilgrimage for Life called for an end to the Cold War with better relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Kintaro Walks Japan is a documentary film produced and directed by Tyler MacNiven. It is an account of MacNiven's journey walking and backpacking the entire length of Japan from Kyūshū to Hokkaidō, more than 2000 miles in 145 days. MacNiven cited three reasons for the journey. On his first trip to Japan in 2002, he fell in love with the country.
Ed Fallon, Miriam Kashia, Mackenzie McDonald Wilkins, Jeffrey Czerwiec, Steve Martin. These were the five participants in the Great March for Climate Action who completed every step of the 3,100-mile (5,000 km) walk from Los Angeles, California, to Washington, D.C., between March 1 and November 1, 2014.
George Meegan, The Longest Walk – Odyssey of the Human Spirit (1988); describes an unbroken walk from Tierra del Fuego at the southernmost tip of South America to the northern coast of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay between 1977 and 1983. Rory Stewart, The Places in Between (2006); recounts a walk across Afghanistan in 2002, after the Russians had left.
Meegan is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: Dave Meegan (born 1963), Irish record producer; George Meegan (born 1952), British long-distance walker; Michael Elmore-Meegan (born 1959), British-born Irish humanitarian and founder of ICROSS; Paddy Meegan (1922–2012), Irish Gaelic footballer
Pat Farmer established the fastest around Australia long run record of continuous running in 191 days and 10 minutes (around 6 months) over 14,662.4 km (9,111 mi) during his Centenary of Federation run. He set a new world 10,000 km (6,214 mi) record in 129 days, broke a long-standing Australian record of more than 13,383 km (8,316 mi) in 174 days.
English: [Tipi with sign "American Indian Movement" on the grounds of the Washington Monument, Washington, D.C., during the "Longest walk"] Date. 11 July 1978. Source. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ds.00753. This tag does not indicate the copyright ...