In June 2004, Colin Angus left Vancouver on his bicycle. Nearly two-years later, he rolled back in, looking like a castaway, and having completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
Angus cycled, skied, and rowed a route that took him to Alaska, across the Bering Sea and the Siberian winter, across Europe from Moscow to Portugal, then across the Atlantic to Costa Rica, a 156-day rowing odyssey. From there it was a short 8,300 kilometer ride back to Vancouver. Along the way, he burned through 4,000 chocolate bars, 72 inner tubes, 250 kgs of freeze-dried foods, 31 dorado fish (caught from the sea), 2 offshore rowboats, 4 bicycles, 80 kgs of clothing. And, he showed the world that if he can travel 43,000 kilometers without polluting the planet, then the rest of us can get off our butts, and clean up our own acts.
