A 29-year-old woman plans to travel 32000-Km from Argentina to Alaska

Her name is Bethany Hughes and she plans to become the first documented woman to travel the length of the Americas - from Ushuaia, Argentina, to Barrow, Alaska. She will use non-motorized means like hiking, cycling or canoeing and might even drive a sled-dog team for part of the way. This is a skill she picked up when she had lived briefly in Alaska. Her 20,000-mile (32,000-kilometre) trek is expected to commence in December and the journey would take an estimated five years to complete.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 5 October 2015.

Hughes has lived in Spain and studied abroad at Oxford and she has six little footprints tattooed up her foot, one for each country Hughes has lived in. Her plan is to follow the mountains through Argentina, Chile and Peru, then continue north through Ecuador and Colombia and, continue on bicycle through Central America and Mexico, before heading through the US to Canada.
She knows winters in the Andes are brutal, summers in the tropics insufferable but she has the resolve.
She has spent several years planning for the trip and has saved much of the estimated $12,000 she will need annually by working multiple jobs. She also has managed to rope in some sponsors like Hyperlite Mountain Gear. But, majority of her support is from grassroots fundraising.
Google Earth has allowed her to plot her path with reasonable accuracy. DeLorme's GPS system will keep not only keep her on track but help a team of volunteers back in the US to monitor her progress.
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