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Podcast: Ultrarunning History
Episode: 45: Dave Kunst – Walk Around the World – Part 2
Description: By Davy Crockett
This is the second part of the Dave Kunst story. Read/Listen/Watch to Part 1 here.
Dave Kunst, originally from Minnesota, now from California, claims that he was “the first person verified to have completed circling the entire land mass of the earth on foot.” Kunst's 1970-74 walk has historic importance for the modern-era of ultra-distance walking. I believe that Konstantin Rengarten was actually the first in 1894-1898 (See Part 3). I will show that Kunts' "verified" claim is dubious, but his amazing walk did happen, and the story is fascinating and exciting. But at what cost to those w...