| Nationalities: | Britain (UK). |
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http://www.cyclingthe6.com/
Distance cycled : 86,209 km
(circum. of equator = 40,000 km)
Countries : 75
Continent : 6/6
Homecoming date: 19/02/16
When I was 29 years old, I waved goodbye to my family and friends from outside St Thomas' Hospital in London, where I worked as a medical doctor, and set off on my bicycle.
On February 19th 2016, after cycling 86,250 km (54,000 miles), Dr Stephen Fabes will return to St Thomas’ hospital in London from where he set off more than six years ago, aged 29.
During that time Stephen has cycled the length of six continents, across 75 countries, crossing over one hundred international borders and pedaling a distance equivalent to more than twice around the planet, or sixty six times the length of Great Britain.
In 2009 Stephen was working as a junior doctor at St Thomas'. Since he left to pedal the world he has visited scores of remote medical projects and clinics aimed at helping marginalised people: from refugees, the disabled, slum dwellers and homeless children, to drug addicts, victims of suicide bombings and domestic violence, ex-prisoners, the mentally ill and those with infectious and deforming disease.
A freelance journalist, Stephen plans to write a book, part travelogue, part investigation into marginalisation and its relationship to health and disease.