 Jason Lewis set off on the human-powered trip nearly a decade ago |
A British adventurer is planning to complete his round-the-world challenge over land and ocean, nearly 10 years after he began. Jason Lewis, from Bridport, Dorset, began circumnavigating the world on a bicycle from London's Greenwich Meridian in July 1994.
The 36-year-old reached Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory in the autumn of 2001, after travelling 24,000 miles in seven years over land and ocean.
He now plans to return to the city to complete the last leg of the mammoth journey, after spending the last two years raising funds by working on a buffalo ranch in Colorado, US.
 |  This leg will be like an expedition in itself  |
Mr Lewis will first head to Kupang, 450 miles from Darwin on the island of Timor in Indonesia, aboard his wooden, 26 feet long, pedal boat Moksha. The �26,000 yellow-hulled craft has already crossed the Channel, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Mr Lewis then hopes to paddle a kayak on a 2,000-mile island hopping trip to Singapore.
He said: "This leg will be like an expedition in itself.
"Up towards Sumatra and Singapore there are a lot of pirates - but I hope they will not be bothered by a kayak.
"Once in Singapore I feel I can finish the trip back to Greenwich if the funding is there."
Pedal boat record
To complete the expedition, Mr Lewis hopes to cycle through Malaysia, China, Tibet, central Asia, Iran and Eastern and Western Europe, returning in late 2005 after paddling across the English Channel.
He began the circumnavigation nearly a decade ago with Steve Smith, from Wolverhampton.
In 1994 they made the first east-west pedal boat crossing of the Atlantic in the Moksha.
Over the decade, Mr Smith left the expedition to pursue other interests, and Mr Lewis continued over the years, until he reached Darwin in 2001.
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