Dave Kunst

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Dave Kunst (born July 16, 1939) is the first person independently verified to have walked around the Earth. The walk was intended to be achieved along with his brother John, but during the event John was shot and killed by bandits, and Dave wounded; Dave resumed and completed the walk with another brother, Peter. His walk was officially stated to be 23,250 kilometres (14,450 mi). Kunst's walk may not have been the first circumnavigation by foot; Guinness World Records mentions George Matthew Schilling as being reputed to have circumnavigated the globe between 1897 and 1904.

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