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The Unclosed Circle
In 1994, Jason Lewis abandoned his attempt to circumnavigate the globe using only human power, returning home to Greenwich before completing the crossing of the Pacific. Without a confirmed first human-powered circumnavigation, the loosely organised community of pedal- and oar-powered adventurers that had been tracking his progress lost its central reference point, and the claim to the "first human-powered circumnavigation" remained open for over a decade longer than expected.
Diverged 1994 · “Jason Lewis abandons his journey and returns home before circling the globe.”
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TodayHuman-powered circumnavigation remains a small, loosely regulated pursuit tracked informally by a handful of enthusiast websites and the Adventurers' Club of New York rather than any single governing body. Colin Angus is generally credited as the first person to complete a human-powered circumnavigation, though a minority of expedition historians argue the category itself was only firmly defined after his 2006 return. Jason Lewis is remembered chiefly as an early and influential but unsuccessful attempter, occasionally cited in retrospectives on expeditions that did not finish.
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