Charlie Walker is a British adventurer and writer specialising in long distance, human-powered expeditions. He has covered 50,000 miles by bicycle, ski, foot, horse, kayak and dugout canoe. Charlie’s longest expedition was a 43,000-mile (70,000km) bicycle journey reaching the furthest point in each of Europe, Asia and Africa before returning home. On this journey he traversed 60 countries, encountering extremes of weather, remoteness and physical exhaustion during the four and a half years he was away. Charlie's 2019 traverse of Papua New Guinea by foot and paddle took him to some of the most remote communities he's encountered living among some of the world's least accessible jungle. In 2017, Charlie completed a 5,200-mile triathlon along the perceived border between Europe and Asia. This 8-month feat spanned from the midwinter snowfields of the Russian Arctic to the Bosporus in Istanbul via a winding river through Kazakhstan. In 2014 Charlie descended the Lulua, a little-known tributary of the Congo River, in a leaky dugout canoe. This journey was beset by rapids, waterfalls, hippos, crocodiles and finally violent bouts of malaria and typhoid fever. In 2012 Charlie walked 1,000 miles solo across the Gobi desert from China to Mongolia. This feat involved walking over six marathons a week for six weeks whilst carrying enough food and water to survive. Later in 2012 he trekked 600 miles across the Mongolian steppe in the company of a semi-feral pony and a stray dog he found in the forest. When not on expedition, Charlie lives and writes in London.
