Traveller 2
Rosie Swale Pope, a grandmother from Wales, took five years to run around the world. She was
61 when she completed her round-the-world trip in August 2008. Her 20 000 mile (32 190 km)
journey, which took her through the Northern Hemisphere including Europe, America, Greenland
and Iceland, raised funds for a Russian orphanage and promoted cancer awareness.
Rosie carried her equipment on a small trailer as she ran. She either camped at night or stayed
with people she met on the way. She met lots of people on route; most of them friendly. She
received 29 proposals of marriage (9 of them in Poland) and was rescued from the snow during a
blizzard by a local in Alaska.
Did she encounter any difficulties? As well as being hit by a bus, experiencing freezing
temperatures and suffering from pneumonia, she was knocked unconscious by an axeman as she
was crossing a river. She also had to replace her running shoes 45 times.