Over the last eight years Markus Pukonen has been circumnavigating the globe, a trip of more than 73,000 kilometres, made without a plane, train or automobile. He didn’t even ride an elevator.
Pukonen, from Tofino, B.C., left Toronto in a canoe in July of 2015. He returned to Canada on July 2, 2023 on a bicycle, crossing the United States border at Niagara Falls.
He described the entire journey as “amazing” and “unbelievable.”
Over the years the 40-year-old says he hand-cycled, tricycled, skied, kayaked, SUPed (a stand up paddleboard), bicycled, sailed, and walked his way first around Canada and then the planet.
He’s been everywhere. He’s breathed the mountain air.
“I sailed across
