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First human powered circumnavigation of the globe

Daily Star Sunday 06/10/2007

Jason Lewis set out to circumnavigate the globe using only human power in 1994. On October 7th 2007 he achieved his goal, returning to his start point in London up the Thames on his pedal power boat. He used a combination of cycling, rollerblading, hiking and his pedal powered boat.

The journey was done in legs and he had breaks in various places. Some of these were due to things outside his control, such as when he had to recover from two broken legs after being hit by a drunk driver in Colorado.

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