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This is a list of the longest walks that have occurred in groups and on solo or duo projects. Many have promoted social causes or medical conditions. Some have been done mostly for the experience. Groups consist of three or more people who walked at least most of the entire distance. Solo/duo walks are one or two people.
The Meegans (George, Yoshiko, w/kids Geoffrey and Ayumi), shown here at the end of the Longest Walk (1983) Meegan lived in Kobe, Japan for most of the period between 1991 until 2010. He had met his wife, Yoshiko Matsumoto, in 1975 when he had to join a ship in Japan and so crossed from UK on the Trans-Siberian Railway .
The videos documenting the whole walk were later archived on his YouTube channel as well as video clips and social media posts collected together to chart his journey on an interactive map. Although the walk began as an independent venture, by the end of the first month Subway had learned of it and offered sponsorship including a donation to ...
Danae and Olen Netteburg, both 44, and their five children aged between 14 and two, have just completed North America’s holy hiking trinity, the Triple Crown.
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.
WEST ALLIS, Wisc. (FOX6) -- On Tuesday evening, August 11th, world-famous wire walker Nik Wallenda successfully completed his longest walk EVER at the Wisconsin State Fair. Ahead of the wire walk ...
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
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.