Lucy Barnard and her dog Wombat have eight years into a 30,000-kilometre journey

An Australian woman is currently travelling through Western Canada as she continues her mission to become the first woman to walk “the length of the Earth.”

Lucy Barnard is eight years into a 30,000-kilometre journey from the southernmost tip of South America to the top of North America, having started her journey in February 2017 from Ushuaia, Argentina and heading to Utqiagvik, Alaska.

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Barnard, who was named Australian Geographic Society’s 2024 Adventurer of the Year, would be the first woman to accomplish the feat. In 1983, George Meegan became the first man to complete the journey, and some men have done a similar trek. F our people a year attempt the journey, but they usual

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