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Land's End to John O'Groats Sunday 12th September to Tuesday 30th November 2004 1,200 miles on foot  A walk of around 1,200 miles from Land's End, the south-westernmost point of Britain, to John O'Groats, the north-easternmost point of Britain, to be done entirely on foot, without using any motorised transport, including ferries and lifts to accomodation. The route will include part of the South West Coast Path, the whole of the Cotswold Way and the Pennine Way, and a traverse of the Cairngorm mountain range. About Ed Beale I am a 27 year old Christian (Read More). I grew up in the New Forest in Hampshire. I have recently been living in Leeds and studying for an MSc in Transport Planning. I have been a keen walker since I was a child, but the longest walk I had done prior to this was 110 miles from Poole in Dorset to Exmouth in Devon along the South West Coast Path. I became concerned about environmental issues as a teenager and followed that up by joining campaigning group People and Planet at Bristol University. I went with them to the Climate summit in The Hague in 2000, where I first became really aware of the threat posed by climate change. In 2001 I went to the follow up summit in Bonn with the climate change campaigning group Rising Tide. More recently I have become involved in campaigning for sustainable transport systems. About Operation Noah Operation Noah is the climate change campaign of charity Christian Ecology Link. The campaign encourages individuals to make changes to their lifestyle to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions they are responsible for, particularly by switching their electricity supplies to renewable electricity (produced by wind, water and solar), and by cutting down on the number of unneccesary car trips and flights. The campaign also hopes to build popular pressure on the government to turn their fine words on climate change into real policy changes which will put Britain and the G8 on a course towards sustainability. Experience of The Walk I completed the walk on time, and gave many talks about climate change along the way. The walk proved to be physically tougher than I expected, but overall I enjoyed it enormously, and felt very priviledged to be able to see so much of the country on foot. Read an article about the walk, and tips for anyone contemplating something similar:
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