georgemeegan

George Meegan is an adventurer, lecturer and world traveler. He holds the most official world's records (8) of any European (including the Longest Unbroken March of All Time) earned from his epic walk from Tierra Del Fuego, South America to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska; 19,019 miles in 2,425 days from 1977 to 1983. (Later finished his walk to Barrow, Alaska in 2000.) He lives in both England and Japan with his wife, Yoshiko. He has a daughter and a son. He has served as a seaman in the British Merchant Marine and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. Currently, Meegan is an associate professor at the Japanese National Maritime University, Kobe, Japan.