Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Longest rickshaw ride by a team - world record
set by Simon Etkind and Lianna Hulbert
LOWESTOFT, UK -- Cambridge graduates Simon
Etkind and Lianna Hulbert, both 24, set off from
Land's End on June 29 and completed their trek in Lowestoft
after travelling 932 miles-setting the world record for the
Longest
rickshaw ride by a team.
Simon, from London, who has just graduated
in medicine, confessed that their rickshaw - also known as
an eco-chariot - had drawn more than the odd curious glance
from passing motorists on the last leg of their journey along
the A12.
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He said: “We have generally stayed off busy roads
but most people have been happy to see us. They were a bit
rude in London but everywhere else they have been very nice.”
The couple, who are due to marry in
October, had only the comfort of a two-man tent to rest their
aching bones in most nights
Simon and Lianna, whose family comes from
Woodford in Essex, are confident their world record for the
Longest
rickshaw ride will raise more than £1,500 for the
charity Action
Village India.
Simon said: “We have both travelled in
India and were inspired by the grassroots work undertaken
by the charity, for example in education and helping to set
up businesses.”
Lianna said: "In India pedaling a rickshaw
is a hard earned living. "It’s the knowledge that what we're
doing might help lift some people out of poverty that will
keep me going as I pant and sweat towards the finish line.”
Ryan Vardy, director of
EcoChariots, which has lent Simon and Lianna their
rickshaw for the Longest
rickshaw ride, said: "Rickshaws are an environmentally
friendly and fun way to travel - they attract attention and
interest wherever they go. I'd really love to see one of my
EcoChariots set a world record."
Simon Etkind and Lianna Hulbert,
who are getting married later this year, celebrated
the end of their four-week record attempt for the Longest
rickshaw ride between Britain's most westerly and
easterly points with lunchtime fish and chips on the beach.
Anyone wishing to sponsor Lianna and
Simon can contact Action Village India on: 020 7247 6406,
or visit: justgiving.com/rickshaw_odyssey.
Ivan Nutbrown, the co-ordinator
of AVI said: "Just like our partners in India, Lianna and
Simon show boundless energy and enthusiasm to make things
happen and make a positive difference. Action
Village India is really grateful to Lianna and Simon
for taking on this record-setting journey to raise money for
disadvantaged people in some of the poorest parts of India."
The couple can still be sponsored via
their website, www.rickshaw-odyssey.org.
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Wednesday,
August 5, 2009
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