Friday, November 19, 2004
Around-n-Over the World
Question - "What does having a dream mean to you?"
Answer - "A dream is a goal glimmering in the distance;
it is an inner calling that, when accomplished,
serves as the rites of passage into wisdom."
Erden Eruç - Sep 17, 2004
43-year-old extreme athlete Erden Eruç and his Around-n-Over expedition has reached the half-way mark of the North American cycling leg of his human powered around-the-world journey; a seven year quest to circumnavigate the globe solely under his own power and to reach the highest point on each of six continents.
Around-n-Over is a non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington. Using the Six Summits Project as a launchpad, this non-profit produces news and educational content about the journey, and shares its know-how for future human powered, self propelled challenges. A specific goal of the organization is to support the school that Göran Kropp founded in 1996, the Göran Kropp Bishwa Darshan Primary School in Taptin, Chyangba, Solukhumbu, Nepal, which serves 165 pupils and eight teachers.
Since departing Seattle on October 3, Erden has peddled 1,833 miles of the estimated 3,400 mile, 60 day cycling journey across North America. His immediate objective is Mt. Aconcagua, the highest point in South America, which rises 22,840 feet above sea level on the Chilean-Argentinean border.
On his way to Aconcagua, Erden will row from Miami through the Panama Canal to Ecuador aboard his 23 foot trans-oceanic rower and then bike south from Ecuador through Peru and Chile. He has already scaled the summit of Mt. McKinley, North America's highest peak, which he reached in 2003 by bicycling from Seattle, north through British Columbia, the Yukon Territory, and Alaska. He has now cycled through Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Colorado en route to a December arrival in Miami.
Answer - "A dream is a goal glimmering in the distance;
it is an inner calling that, when accomplished,
serves as the rites of passage into wisdom."
Erden Eruç - Sep 17, 2004
43-year-old extreme athlete Erden Eruç and his Around-n-Over expedition has reached the half-way mark of the North American cycling leg of his human powered around-the-world journey; a seven year quest to circumnavigate the globe solely under his own power and to reach the highest point on each of six continents.
Around-n-Over is a non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington. Using the Six Summits Project as a launchpad, this non-profit produces news and educational content about the journey, and shares its know-how for future human powered, self propelled challenges. A specific goal of the organization is to support the school that Göran Kropp founded in 1996, the Göran Kropp Bishwa Darshan Primary School in Taptin, Chyangba, Solukhumbu, Nepal, which serves 165 pupils and eight teachers.
Since departing Seattle on October 3, Erden has peddled 1,833 miles of the estimated 3,400 mile, 60 day cycling journey across North America. His immediate objective is Mt. Aconcagua, the highest point in South America, which rises 22,840 feet above sea level on the Chilean-Argentinean border.
On his way to Aconcagua, Erden will row from Miami through the Panama Canal to Ecuador aboard his 23 foot trans-oceanic rower and then bike south from Ecuador through Peru and Chile. He has already scaled the summit of Mt. McKinley, North America's highest peak, which he reached in 2003 by bicycling from Seattle, north through British Columbia, the Yukon Territory, and Alaska. He has now cycled through Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Colorado en route to a December arrival in Miami.
