7 February 2008

Global Human Powered Circumnavigation

Posted by Mick under: People; Websites .

I ran across a web site a few days ago and thought to myself, here is something you don’t hear about people doing very often…”true circumnavigation of the world by human power”.

According to AdventureStats (part of the ExplorersWeb group of websites that I have mentioned before) to meet the “GUIDELINES for HUMAN POWERED CIRCUMNAVIGATION”…

A true circumnavigation of the Earth (around the world) must:

• Start and finish at the same point, travelling in one general direction
• Reach two antipodes (Antipodes = two diametrically opposite places on Earth)

From the above follows that a true circumnavigation must:

• Cross the equator a minimum of two times
• Cross all longitudes
• Cover a minimum of 40,000km or 21,600NM (a great circle)

The statistics page at AdventureStats for Global Human Powered Circumnavigations, or Global HPC, shows that only one person has completed this amazing feat, Jason Lewis of the Expedition 360 project, and it took him a grand total of 13 years, 2 months and 25 days to cover just over 72,000km (or 45,000 miles)…wow…now that’s an expedition.

Check out the site as it has video snippets, photos, a logbook and other stuff that was gathered over the 13 years of the expedition.

Personally, I think I’ll stick to primarily land based expeditions as I’m not a big ocean/open water person (and he did cover a lot of water between the 12^th of July 1994 and the 6^th of October 2007), but you have to tip your hat to Jason Lewis and his support team for not only completing an amazing expedition, but being the first to do it…well done :)

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