Colin Angus: Around The World By Human Power

COLIN:

What did we do? We traveled around the world entirely by human power and there were several objectives for this trip – one, of course, was just the challenge. Nobody’s ever done it before and it’s just a wonderful way to get there and experience all these remote and beautiful places that are on the path. On top of that, a big part of it was promoting zero or low emissions transportation. We’re hoping our trip can be a symbol of just how far you can go using just your arms and legs and the fact that there’s huge issues with global warming and CO2 emissions, we’re hoping that more people will get out on their bicycles or on the buses to get around.

We started from Vancouver and then went north up to Alaska and then we crossed the Bering Sea in a small rowboat over to Siberia. That area there was very difficult because there were no roads and it gets extremely cold in the wintertime. In the summertime, you can’t travel through it by using just your arms and legs because it’s marches and bogs and rivers, so instead we had to go in the winter, through the coldest period - in fact, it’s the coldest area on the planet outside of Antarctica.

Then we made our way to the first roads, which was about 3,000 kilometres inland, and continued by bicycle through the rest of Siberia and through Russia and then all through western Europe and then finally to the Atlantic Ocean.

At the Atlantic, we continued in a rowboat from Lisbon all the way across to Costa Rica.