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During this time, he walked unaccompanied 32 thousand km, visited 25 countries and 4 continents, wore out 10 pairs of sneakers and wore out almost a hundred pairs of socks. On the way he turned 60 years old. During the walk, he was robbed twice, planned a longer route, but was denied a visa to Australia. Start and finish St. Petersburg.
Beliveau became the fifth man to be independently verified as having walked around the world. Walking for 11 years and covering 75,000 km, Beliveau's walk is the longest continuous world walk and has preliminary qualification stage for recognition under the WRA guidelines. [citation needed] Date Aug. 18, 2000 – Oct. 15, 2011 Duration
Total time hours:minutes References 1 Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong: CMSA: Shenzhou 19: 17 December 2024 9:06 [1] 2 James Voss and Susan Helms: NASA: STS-102: 11 March 2001 8:56 [2] [3] 3 Pierre Thuot, Richard Hieb and Thomas Akers: NASA: STS-49: 13 May 1992 8:29 [4] 4 Ye Guangfu and Li Guangsu: CMSA: Shenzhou 18: 28 May 2024 8:23 [5] 5 (tie) Cai ...
47-year-old health food distributor Erwin Erkfitz walked from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 1958 for at the time was the record for a cross-country walk. He traveled 3,000 miles (4,800 km) for 67 days, promoting a shoe and attempting to set what would be the record. [127] [128] [129]
Dave Kunst (born July 16, 1939) is the first person independently verified to have walked around the Earth. [1] The walk was intended to be achieved along with his brother John, but during the event John was shot and killed by bandits, and Dave wounded; Dave resumed and completed the walk with another brother, Peter.
This is a list of cumulative spacewalk records for the 30 astronauts who have the most extra-vehicular activity (EVA) time. [1] [2] The record is currently held by Anatoly Solovyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency, with 82:22 hours from 16 EVAs, followed by NASA's Michael Lopez-Alegria with 67:40 hours in 10 EVAs. This list is current as of ...
Retains record for circumnavigation using only scheduled transportation. [26] Air France: 32 hours 49 minutes and 3 seconds 12 October 1992 13 October 1992 Concorde FAI "Westbound Around the World" world air speed record from Lisbon, Portugal. [27] [28] [29] Michel Dupont and Claude Hetru 31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds 15 August 1995
Ffyona Campbell (born 1967 in Totnes, Devon) is an English long distance walker who walked around the world between 1983 and 1995.She set off at the age of 16 and covered 32,000 kilometres (20,000 mi) over 11 years and raised £180,000 for charity.