He visited all 195 countries without flying. It nearly broke him
Torbjorn Pedersen took 10 years to travel the world without flying. On several occasions he thought he was going to die.
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Torbjorn Pedersen took 10 years to travel the world without flying. On several occasions he thought he was going to die.
Torbjorn Pedersen took 10 years to travel the world without flying. On several occasions, he thought he was going to die.
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Thor Pedersen returned home to Denmark for the first time in 10 years after traveling the world on a limited budget, and without flying.
Thor Pedersen, a former UN soldier originally from Denmark, went on a decadelong adventure that took him to every country in the world but never took an airplane. By train, bus, boat and other forms of transport he covered over 220,000 miles. Last week he returned home to Copenhagen. Pedersen told The World's Carol Hills about his trip.