Charlie Walker
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Charlie Walker is an award-winning British explorer and writer specialising in long distance, human-powered expeditions. He has covered 60,000 miles by bicycle, ski, foot, horse, kayak and dugout canoe. Charlie’s longest expedition was a 43,000-mile bicycle journey reaching the furthest point in each of Europe, Asia and Africa. 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. This journey is covered in his first two books: 'Through Sand & Snow' and 'On Roads That Echo'. In 2022, Charlie spent two months trekking through Arctic winter in Far East Russia. Camping in temperatures as low as -50ºC Charlie's aim was to reach remote-living groups of indigenous Siberians. The journey began just before Russia invaded Ukraine and the expedition culminated in a four-week stint in prison on false charges of photographing sensitive military sites. ​Charlie's 2019 and 2023 traverses of Papua New Guinea by foot and paddle took him to some of the world's most remote communities living deep in the mountainous 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 out in the wild, Charlie lives and writes in London.
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    • On Thin Ice

    • An Explorer's Memoir of Siberia, Surveillance and Survival
    • By: Charlie Walker
    • Narrated by: Charlie Walker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-2026
    • Language: English
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    • Through Sand & Snow

    • A Man, a Bicycle, and a 43,000-Mile Journey to Adulthood via the Ends of the Earth
    • By: Charlie Walker
    • Narrated by: Charlie Walker
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-2019
    • Language: English
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