A British man kayaked, pedaled, walked, swam and
skated to become the first person to circumnavigate the
globe by human muscle alone.

Jason Lewis, 40, shunned motor and sail to travel 45,505
miles in a quest that ended last week when he pulled his
pedal boat across the Meridian line at the Royal Observ-
atory in Greenwich.

The epic journey took him 13 years, two months, 23 days and
11 hours.

Lewis capsized in two oceans, was chased by a crocodile in
Australia, had two bouts of malaria, surgery for two hernias
and nearly died of blood poisoning 1,300 miles off Hawaii.

He also suffered acute altitude sickness in the Himalayas,
broke both legs when he was hit by a car in Colorado and was
arrested as a spy in Egypt.

"It's been a big, long journey. It's good to be back," a thin,
leathered and weeping Lewis said simply as he crossed the
finish line.

Holy moly!! Now that's commitment to a cause!

Well he is British after all

What's that gotta do with anything?

On a roll.

Eh?

Mr Heller has had the Union Kack at one and a half masts recently.

LOL. ^ that was an honest typo. I swear.

HAHAHAHAAH

Just reiterate the sentiment: Well he is British.

A little nuts.
 

He pedal-boated across the oceans? Goddamn that must take some doing.

Maybe if he went up north to do it where the ocean is narrower and the continents are close together... (y'know, Viking-visit-to-America style)

Technically, if you went to the point of true north, and walked in a circle of a metre radius around that point, would it be a circumnavigation of the globe? It would cross all the time zone lines.

Sidenote: All my posts seem to come with about 3 blank lines on the end that I didn't put there

except that one

SK - I wasn't sure either, but I thought I was seeing extra lines as well....

Phew! Thanks!
 

Circumnavigate the globe? Nup!!

I want to circumnavigate the world but in a sail boat.  I couldn't imagine 13 years to do it!  He better of kept a journal so he can write a book!