Jason Lewis (adventurer)

Jason Lewis (born 1967 in Catterick, United Kingdom), English musician, has performed the first human being a circumnavigation of the world by human power. His 13 -year world tour, he finished in October 2007.

On 12 July 1994, he began his missionary expedition of 360 Greenwich, London and has about 74,842 kilometers traveled when he ended his expedition to the age of 13 on October 6, 2007. Its about eight feet long boat Moksha (see Moksha ) was driven with pedal drive. He drove through the English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The land he laid partly on roller skates, by hiking or mountain biking. In Colorado, he was hit by a car and broke his both legs.

Lewis financed his first project itself After he had successfully crossed the Atlantic, for example, he put his boat three months in a mall from, collected donations and made ​​people on his project carefully. Only some time later, he also managed to win sponsors for his company.

Colin Angus has previously circumnavigated the world by muscle power, but it does not cross the equator.

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