Summary
[Jason Lewis] said [Colin Angus] has made a "false claim" because the 35-year-old Canadian's route never touched the equator and didn't cross two "antipodal" points on the planet -- co-ordinates on exactly opposite sides of the Earth.
"If you've spent 13 years of your life trying to do something the right way and then someone comes along and says they've done it but not done it the right way, then it is extremely irritating," Lewis, currently crossing the Arabian Sea in a specially rigged pedal boat, told the Guardian newspaper this week in its take on the "bitter row" that has split the international adventuring community.In a letter to National Geographic, [Tim Harvey] said he split with Angus when "it appeared to me that Angus was planning to deceive the world by calling the endeavour a 'circumnavigation.' "See the full content of this document
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Canadian's Around-the-World Trek Bogus: Rival
By Randy Boswell
A Canadian adventurer who spent two years cycling, paddling, skiing and hiking around the world -- completing what National Geographic hailed as the first...See the full content of this document
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