Whilst on the theme of inspirational figures I would like to share with you Jason Lewis. In 2007 he completed the first ever human powered circumnavigation of the earth, he used bicycles, in-line skates, kayaks, swimming, rowing, walking and a pedal boat to travel over 45,000 miles. This is truly an astonishing feat. I hope that I can have the pleasure of meeting him some day.
If you want to find out more about his project then you can visit:
This guy has to be a real idol to me. He is currently trekking along the Amazon river, from source to mouth. Which I cannot describe to you how impossibly hard it must be. Its truly incredible! If you haven’t heard of it then go on his website and support him anyway you can!
I must try and meet him when he gets back and personally thank him for lighting a fire under my arse to get me started on my longer distance walking project.
Photographic
Travel
Sleeping
Location
Hygiene
Nutrition (Trips in the UK wont have to worry too much about food and water.)
I now have two jobs and I am working seven days a week now. It is unlikely that I will get a day off for atleast 2 - 3 weeks. I am going to hand my notice in for my weekend job but it is going to be a hard slog until I finish that job, after talking to my manager I have found that I will have to give 4 weeks notice.
Training wise I plan to walk an hour each day Monday to Friday as my week day job is office bound and I can see myself getting out of shape quite easily if I dont exercise at all. At the weekends before my shift starts I will go for longer walks in the mornings.
Next update will hopefully be either an equipment list for my short to medium trips and a route planned out for the Cotwolds walk.
Currently I plan to walk:
All these trips are to raise awareness in sustainability issues through the use of photography, and the simple fact I will be walking such long distances.
* The training trips are aimed to improve my knowledge of navigation, photography, camping and general survival skills. I do of course have to plan these trips around work and after I have all my essential equipment. I will release the images via the website for public viewing.
** The promotional trip is aimed at getting sponsors for the long distance walks I plan to undertake. This time I will release the images in an ebook downloadable for free from the Step Green website. This will serve as a sample for the possible publications I could produce from the long distance walks.
*** The long distance walks will hopefully start in 2009 after some considerable training and planning. The fruits of these trips will be photographic books of each country I cross by foot.
This is the brand new Step Green website, here you can keep track of all of the projects the team are working on at the moment. Specifically on the Step Green walking project which is being worked on by myself (Tim Earl).