27 Sep 2020

Covid-19 puts halt on incredible no-flight world tour

From Sunday Morning, 8:25 am on 27 September 2020

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Six and a half years ago, Torbjørn 'Thor' Pedersen set out on a mission to visit every nation in the world in a single journey, without taking a single flight. The 41-year-old Danish native is now only nine countries away from completing his world-first adventure - with one of those remaining nations being New Zealand - but he has been trapped in Hong Kong for the last 35 weeks because of Covid-19.

Thor Pedersen

Thor Pedersen Photo: Supplied / Pavel Toropov