Extreme travel: It just got harder to see every place in the world
He has been arrested many times and held in detention in war-torn nations, but has seen everywhere from St Eustatius to the Savage Islands*.
He has a goal: to travel the whole world. And that goal has landed him, at the time of writing, in tenth place on the "Most Traveled People" (MTP) leader board.
MTP is an online community that unites extreme travellers. It boasts nearly 30,000 members and exists for people to compare their adventures, in a bid to become "the most travelled person".
The MTP founder, Charles Veley, was inspired to create it after the Guinness Book of Records declined in 2000 to accept his own attempts to be the world's most travelled person - and required a third-party to adjudicate.
"It felt like I had completed the marathon in the Olympics... it felt like I had done all that. Come into the stadium and all the judges had gone home and there was no-one there," he said.
That number increased to around 1,000 in the following years, as existing places were divided into further parts. And, as of this year, the list has been updated again - to 1,500 different locations.
