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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 walk from Los Angeles, California, to Washington, D.C., between March 1 and November 1, 2014.
Campbell became the third person and first woman claiming to have walked around the world. She carried out her walk in stages. In 1985, she walked from New York City to Los Angeles, across the United States. She later admitted to taking transport during one stretch, because she was ill, but had to meet sponsors' demands.
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.
Creating walkable communities. To prepare for his journey – which started in March 2023 – Ringer started going on longer walks, eventually doing a nine-day walk from Vancouver to Seattle.
Known for. Long-distance walking. 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. She was the youngest person to walk the length of Britain and ...
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] (1977–1983 ...
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.
Nik Wallenda. Walking over Masaya volcano in Nicaragua, an 1,800-foot walk, in 2020 in 31m 23s. Nikolas Wallenda (born January 24, 1979) is an American acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, high wire artist, and author. He is known for his high-wire performances without a safety net. He holds 11 Guinness World Records for various acrobatic feats, and ...