"Alastair Humphreys" is an English adventurer, author and motivational speaker. His first big adventure was completing a four-year bicycle journey around the Earth/world. He was a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2012.

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I didn't want to get a job. I wanted to see all these places and all that obvious stuff, but mostly it was just to do something harder than I'd done before.

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The first year I found really quite lonely and quite hard. It was awful. I was in this horrible hotel crying my eyes out for about two days.

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It's such an in-your-face country. Probably the best individual moment was getting to Cape Town, getting to the end of Africa, because I really - even until Kenya - I didn't think I would get through.

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