Teen Completes Bike Trip From Alaska to Argentina
NFK EDITORS - MARCH 30, 2023
Ushuaia, Argentina —(Map)
Liam Garner was just 17 years old when he started out on his big adventure – a 20,000 mile (32,000 kilometer) bike trip from Alaska to Argentina. In early January, he finally finished his trip, 17 months after he started.
In 2021, Liam had recently graduated from high school and was looking for a “crazy adventure”. He had some experience biking long distances. His longest trip was biking from Los Angeles to San Francisco. He made short videos of that trip, and shared them on the social media app TikTok. Some of his videos became quite popular.
That bike trip helped him decide to tackle a much longer trip. He’d read a book by someone who had biked from Oregon to Argentina. Liam wondered what it would be like to bike from the point farthest north in the United States all the way to the most southern point in South America.
17-year-old Liam Garner began his bike trip from Alaska to Argentina in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska on August 1, 2021 (above). He had recently graduated from high school and was looking for a “crazy adventure”. 17 months later, he finished the trip.
(Source: Liam Garner.)
That meant leaving from Prudhoe Bay in Alaska. After preparing for the trip for about a month, Liam set out on August 1, 2021. He had a tent, a sleeping bag, a phone, a first-aid kit, and some spare parts for his bike. Other than some food and water, he didn’t have much else.
More:
https://newsforkids.net/articles/2023/03/30/teen-completes-bike-trip-from-alaska-to-argentina/
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The teenager who cycled from Alaska to Argentina
The teenager who cycled from Alaska to Argentina
At just 17 years old, Liam Garner started his trip on the coast of the Arctic Ocean in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska and cycled the Pan-American highway.
Watch and see how he fared doing 20,000 miles (32,186km), 14 countries and 527 days by himself and why he almost didn't make it.
Produced by Grace Conley
Published
16 February
Section
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-64377365
Short video, 2 minutes 48 seconds.
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Panama burying more migrant victims of brutal Darien Gap
by: JUAN ZAMORANO, Associated Press
Posted: Oct 4, 2021 / 09:54 AM CDT
Updated: Oct 4, 2021 / 01:19 PM CDT
AGUA FRIA, Panama (AP) — In an isolated cemetery in Panama’s Darien province, migrants who die crossing the most treacherous segment of their journey toward the United States are buried with a plasticized card containing what little information is available about them in case one day someone comes looking.
On a recent afternoon, white-suited workers laid to rest 15 sets of remains in a long trench at the back of the cemetery. A local priest standing at the head of the trench with a candle, crucifix and flowers performed a simple ceremony. On the white body bags were handwritten clues: “Unknown in Bajo Grande,” “Unknown in Turquesa river,” and “Unknown #3, Minor.”
So far this year, Panama has recovered at least 50 sets of remains from migrants crossing the Darien Gap, a number officials believe is only a portion of those who died in the dense, lawless jungle. In recent years, 20 to 30 bodies on average have been recovered annually, but this year Panamanian authorities say more than 90,000 migrants — mostly Haitians — have crossed the Darien Gap from Colombia and the body count reflects that surging migration.
“That number is a minimum quantity of the human remains there are along the whole route,” said José Vicente Pachar, director of Panama’s Forensic Sciences Institute. “Many of them die of natural causes, for example, a heart attack; they fall and no one attends to them. They stay there or they’re assaulted or the water’s current comes and takes the bodies that end up floating along the river’s edge.” Snake bites are also common.
More:
https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/panama-burying-more-migrant-victims-of-brutal-darien-gap/
