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I went to his funeral in November of 2002 and on the way back from that on the plane I drew the world map on a piece of paper and marked the highest summit on each continent and I said to myself, I'm going to go to these by human power as had Iran.

So the accident happened in September.

I went to his funeral in November.

February 1st I was bicycling north to Alaska, towing my

climbing gear, studded tires on my wheels.

Feeling lost?

Then you're in the right place. I'm Amanda Knox and I'm

Christopher Robinson and this is Labyrinth.

When When Erredin Errik's close friend and fellow adventurer,

Joron Krop, died in a climbing accident, Erden dedicated his life to adventure as a tribute to his friend, with a plan to

circumnavigate the globe alone and entirely by human power and to summit the tallest peaks

on six continents.

He is now an 18-time Guinness world record holder,

but strangely, the greater his heights of achievement,

the lower he felt.

I am a Turkish-American living in the Pacific Northwest since 1999.

And back in 1997, I was in an office in Washington, D.C. in Silver Spring, Maryland.

And there was a world map hanging on the wall.

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