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Mark Beaumont sets new World Record and helps CAN in the Process
Mark commented, “In addition to the personal ambition of setting a new Guinness World Record, I cycled to raise awareness and money for five fantastic charities, including Community Action Nepal”. When he set off Mark planned to do the circumnavigation in 210 days, so not only has he set a new world record by a very wide margin, he’s also surpassed his own very ambitious objective. Guinness World Records set a demanding and complex set of criteria for this challenge, which basically boils down to circling the globe on a bike – although they do allow the rider to use a ship to cross the oceans!
This was an ultra-endurance challenge of the very highest order and both Doug and Community Action Nepal are very proud to have been associated with this record setting event and are very grateful for the support Mark has given us by raising funds for our work. To find out more about Mark’s global ride and to make a contribution to Community Action Nepal through his website, click here.
World Circum-Navigating Cyclist and
CAN Supporter on BBC TV
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On
the 15th February 2008, Community Action Nepal supporter Mark
Beaumont cycled underneath the Arc-de-Triomphe, smashing the
previous cycling global circumnavigation world record by an amazing
82 days. He’d left Paris’s triumphal arch on the 5th August 2007 to
circle the world - cycling over 18,000 miles, traversing 4
continents and crossing 20 countries - in an incredible 194 days
and 17 hours. To set his amazing achievement in context, the
previous world record stood at over 276 days. Mark’s new record has
been recognised by Guinness World Records.