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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.
4 years, 3 months, 16 days. Distance. 23,250 kilometres (14,450 mi) Name. Steven M. Newman. Newman became the second man independently verified to walk around the world on April 1, 1987, exactly four years after his departure. His walk was very similar to Kunst's, covering four continents and 14,500 miles.
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
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.
Darla Banks started the walk on May 1 at her father's home in Leech Lake, Minnesota. She's eager to finish it in Washington, D.C. Longest Walk 5 stops in Lansing, brings attention to missing ...