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<li>The greatest distance hitched longest distances passed on land during a the 24 hours period<li>All life hitchhiking<li>The longest ride with one car<li>One year hitchhiking careerrecord<li>The fastest longest journey<li>Longest waiting time to get from [[Land's End]] to [[John o'Groats]] (and <li>Visited countries<li>The largest deviation done by a driver<li>Most picked up hitchhikers<li>Reaching the farthest point North<li>Reaching the round trip)farthest point South<li>The highest point on land<li>The highest temperature<li>The lowest temperature<li>The greatest distance hitched in highest speed<li>Slowest hitchhiking between two points<li>The largest sum of money that was given to a hitchhiker by a 24-hour perioddriver

==The longest distances passed on land during the 24 hours period== *'''2777 km''' (1736 miles), according to [mailto:[email protected] Pavel Trcala], from Czech Republic. Time 28 November 1998 7:30 a.m. - 29 November 1998 6:30 a.m. The fastest time route: Miami to get from [[LandChicago via Jacksonville (Florida), Savannah (Georgia), Columbia (South Carolina), Asheville (North Carolina), Knoxville (Tennessee), Lexington (Kentucky), Toledo (Ohio), South Bend (Indiana), and Harvey (Illinois). The route was done in five lifts. *'''2750 km'''s End]] , according to [http://www.vladas.com/ Vladas Sapranavicius], member of Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club. Time: 21 August 1996 10 p.m. – 22 August 1996 10 p.m. Web destination counter [John o'Groats]http://www.viamichelin.com/ ViaMichelin] gives as expected travel time for Almeria - Potsdam: 24 hours and 51 minutes. The route: Almeria (E) – Murcia (E) – Barcelona (E) – Montpellier (F) – Lion (F) – Frankfurt (D) – Potsdam (D). 4 lifts (Almeria – Montpellier; Montpellier – Lion; Lion – Salzgiter; Salzgiter – Potsdam). The average speed (and backwith waiting for the ride + a cup of beer in the restaurant) ===: 115 km/h. The maximum speed: 170 km/h. [[Land*'''2318.4 km'''s End]] , according to [[John o'Groatshttp://hitchwiki.org/en/User:Prino Robert Prins]] is , hitchhiker from the UK. It was done by 4 lifts in Greece, Yugoslavia, Austria and Germany during 20.47 hours. Start of the first lift at the border between Greece and Yougoslavia, end at the traversal Siegburg (south of Koln) motorwy service in Germany. The second lift till Remscheid motorway service, just North of Koln. The third – till Ostetal (before Hamburg) and the fourth – till Hamburg Stillhorn motorway service. Note: This record was only included in the whole length 1991 edition of the island GBOR. The actual entry on page 179. Full details of Great Britain between two extremitiesthe four rides that led to this record can be found [[Prino's 24-hour record|here]].

;Land== All life hitchhiking ==*'''s End to John oAlexey Vorov'Groats'', president of Sant Petersburg Autostop League (PASL). He has covered about '''1,963,850 km''' (2015) by hitch-hiking. Hitching experience – from 1982 in Sant Petersburg Autostop League. He is still hitchhiking, so it is not the finished number. * Martin Clark and Graham Beynon'''Benoit Grieu''', French hitch-hiker. Last hitchhikers recorded Started his trip in 1979 and since then all the Guinness Book of Records for time on the Landroad. During this trip he has covered about '''1,500,000 km''s End to John O'Groats trip. (17 hours 8 minutesHe hitch-hiked some years for more than 100, 1987);Round000 km/year and he  hitch-triphiked currently more than 50, 000 km every year. He travel 3 continents and about 15 countries every year. * Alan Carter'''Stephan Schlei'''. Last hitchhiker recorded in the Guinness Book of Records for the LandHe claims '''941,500 km's End to John O'Groats to Land's End round-trip. (39 hours 28 minutes)

;Earlier entries== The longest rides with one car ==*'''L.J. Gordon''' from Western Australia. He started from Whitepark Bay Youth Hostel in Northern Ireland, where four Americans in a Combi Van gave him a lift through Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, France, Andorra and into Spain. They covered an astonishing '''7107 km''' before parting company. *'''Alexey Anofriev''' from Vladivostok (Russia) hitch-hiked from Vladivostok (23 May, according 2001) to Shimanovsk (the finish of the road) and got a lift to Samara there. From Shimanovsk to Shilka on the railroad platform together with a car and from Shilka to [http://berndSamara by car (Toyota Celica).wechnerTotaly it was about '''6800 km''' long lift since 28 May till 4 June! After drivers went to Krasnodar and Alexey to Saint Petersburg.info/Hitchhiking/guinnessHe arrived to Saint Petersburg on 7 June, 2001. *'''Benoit Grieu''', French hitch-hiker didi about '''6000 km''' in one lift from Anchorage (Alaska) to San Diego (California).html Bernd Wechner]:

;Single== One year hitchhiking record ==<ul> <li><span style="font*'''Benoit Grieu''', French hitch-family: monospace">1959hiker during 4 or 5 years (for exemple 1989, 1993, 1995, 1997) has been hitch-63&nbsp;&nbsp;39&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; hiking more than '''100,000 km''' per year (in 1995 - Anthony Shepherd</span>113,000 km). <li><span style="font *'''Alexey Vorov''' -family: monospace">1965'''78,800 km'''. It was done in 1991. *'''Vilmantas Trumpickas''' from Vilnius Hitch-69&nbsp;&nbsp;29&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;30&nbsp;min - Ian Crawford</span>hiking Club has covered '''56,000 km''' during the year 2010.   <li><span style="font= The longest journey ==*'''Benoit Grieu''' has been hitch-familyhiking since 1979 and till now he still hitch-hikes almost every day. During these years he has covered about '''1,500,000 km''' not staying more than 3 months in one place. *'''Expedition “Autocolumbus”''' by Sant Petersburg Autostop League in 17 February 1992 – July 1993. The trip started 4 hitchhikers: monospace">1973-74&nbsp;&nbsp;29&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Bernard Atkins (1966) '''Alexey Vorov, Mikhail Dutkevich, Kiril Baranov and Victor Grigor’ev''', but finished only Alexey and Mikhail. The route was around the World via 25 countries in Europe, Asia, South and JNorth America.FThe length of the route '''~83,000 km'''. Hornsey (1971) independently</span> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1975-77&nbsp;&nbsp;23&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;= Longest waiting time ==*'''Alexey Vorov'''. He waited for a lift '''6 days''' in Chucotka, Far North, Russia. During this time he went 50 km by foot after he waited 3 days for the second lift in country Komsomol'skij till got a lift to Majskij (50&nbsp;min km) and after also 3 days of waiting for a third lift. The minimum temperature in his travel was - Pam Vere and Georgina Astley 55°C in country Tyoplyj Kluch (1974Chucotka)</span>.   <li><span style="font= Visited Countries ==*'''Benoit Grieu''', French hitch-family: monospace">1978&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;23&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;24&nbsp;min hiker, has been hitch- Miranda Brooks and Margaret Allinson (1977)</span>hiking in about '''170''' countries. <li><span style="font*'''Pavel Trcala''', hitch-family: monospace">1980&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;21&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;55&nbsp;min hiker from Czech republic. He has hitch- John Repton and Rosemary Grounds (1978)</span>hiked in '''108''' countries. <li><span style="font*'''Dainius Kinderis''', member of Vilnius Hitch-family: monospace">1981-88&nbsp;&nbsp;17&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;50&nbsp;min hiking Club, Lithuania. He has hitch- Andrew Markham hiked in '''62''' countries (1979Europe, Asia, Africa and North America)</span></ul>.

<ul> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1967-68&nbsp;&nbsp;100&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;30&nbsp;min - John Stubbs</span> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1973-75&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;77&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;20&nbsp;min - Christine Elvery and Gwendolen Sherwin (1969)</span> <li><span styleMost picked up hitchhikers ="font-family: monospace">1976&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;57&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;&nbsp;8&nbsp;min - Peter W. Ford (1974)</span> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1976&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;56&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - John Frederik Hornsey (1974)</span> <li><span style="font*'''Dieter Wesch''', the self-family: monospace">1977styled 'King of Hitchers', who was spending his Sundays patrolling the Autobahn between Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, giving lifts to hitchers stranded at petrol stations. Every hitcher should sign in his guest-78&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;54&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;40&nbsp;min - Peter Wbook. Ford (1976)</span> <li><span style="fontThere was given a number from the guest-family: monospace">1980book -83&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;45&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;34&nbsp;min - Guy Hobbs (1978)</span>'''9528'''. It's probably not a last number. <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1984-85&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;42&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;15&nbsp;min - Charlotte Allard and Fay Gillanders *'''Jim Sanderson (1982‘Angel’)</span> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1986-91&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;41&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;42&nbsp;min - Anthony D'''. Sproson He has about 5000 photos with the hitchhikers he gave a lift to (1984mostly in pairs)</span></ul>, so he has taken around '''7500''' people. Mr. Sanderson lives in New Zealand. He has in the 9 years since 1988 filled 7 guest books, 27 address books and dozens of photo albums.

=== From [[Key West]], [[Florida]] to [[Fairbanks]], [[Alaska]] =Reaching the farthest point north =="A young man named Ilmar *Island of Pompano BeachDunay, north of Tiksi, FloridaNorth Russia, Hitchhiked '''73°56''''. It was done by '''Konstantin Savva''' from Key WestMoscow Hitch-hiking School (Russia) and his girlfriend Polina Kuleshova on September 2002.* Urung-Haia, FloridaNorth Russia, to Fairbanks, Alaska, a distance of about 5200 miles, setting out '''73°'''. It was done by '''Konstantin Savva''' from Moscow Hitch-hiking School (Russia) on June 2May 2002.* Tiksi, 1979North Russia, '''71° 36''''. It was done by '''Andrey Sapunov and arriving at his destination Alexandr Dmitrievskyi'''' from Ukrainen hitch-hiking club "Mainroad" (Ukraine) on June 7, just 5 days 20 hours and 52 minutes laterautumn 2002."

== Suggestions for other possible records Reaching the farthest point south ==If you want *Scott Base, Antarctica, '''77° 51''''. Hitchhiker from USA '''Benjaman Bachelder''' hitched 5 km from McMurdo Station to do something that Scott Base in December 2005. The same month he even held a seminar on hitchhiking in Antarctica and got a ride in a snowmobile.*Ukrainian research base"Academic Vernadsky" in Antarctica (probablyphoto) hasn, '''65° 15''''t been done before- reached by Argentinian hitchhikers '''Juan Villarino and Laura Lazzarino''' in 16 November 2010. They got a free ride to this base from cruiser "Ushuaia", belonging to cruise company "Antarrply Expeditions" 20 km South from Ushuaia, Argentine, you can try your thumb at any of these54° 48'. Don*'t expect to end up ''Arndt Writzel''' from Germany cut a record of The farthest point in the Guinness Book of Records for it, they no longer seem to have a section with hitchhiking recordsSouth. He reached Ushuaia town in southern Argentina in 2001 02 03.

== The highest point on land ==* [[Nordkapp|North Cape]] Mountain Everest base camp in Nepal - '''5,400 meters'''. It was done by Czech hitch-hiker '''Pavel Trcala'''. He got the ride from Everest Base camp two days after climbing Everest on his return to [[Gibraltar]]* [[Prudhoe Bay]] Kathmandu on 1 June 2005. Later the same place was also conquered by several other hitchhikers: '''Nuutti Palonen (Finland), Radha Krishnan ([[Alaska]]India) to [[Ushuaia]] and Tai Häring ([[Argentina]]Germany)'''. They also hitch-hiked to Mt Everest base camp from Shigatse in August 2005 and then hitch-hiked to Nepal from Mt Everest* [[Cabo da Roca]] ([[Portugal]]) Gyatso-La mountain pass in Tibet, on the way from Lhasa to [[Cape Dezhnev]] Nepalese border - '''5,220 meters'''. It was done by two Polish hitch-hikers '''Kinga and Chopin''' in 11 May 2003.*The mountain pass in the Andes, South Peru – 5,100 meters. It was done bye '''Alexey Vorov''', president of PASL ([[Russia]]n.4)and '''Mikhail Dutkevich''', member of PASL n.29 in May 1993.

== The greatest distance hitched in a 24-hour period highest temperature ==This record was only included *'''+55°C'''. It were for hitchhikers, '''Alexey Vorov''', president of PASL (n.4), Andrey Kuritsin, member of PASL n.19, Ol’ga Bandurko, member of PASL n.35 and Andrey Leipi, member of PASL n.36 in the 1991 edition of the GBORsummer 1981 near Ashchabad, Turkmenistan. *'''+50°C'''. It was held by [[User:Prino|Prino]]were for hitchhikers from Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club expedition to Iran and Pakistan '''Vladas Sapranavicius and Inga Garnyte''' in ancient city Bam (S. Iran) in middle of July, 1999. The actual entry on page 179 read:

"== The greatest distance in 24 hours is 2318lowest temperature ==*'''–61°C'''.4 km It was for hitchhiker ''1440.7 miles'Elena Saturova''', from Southern [[Yugoslavia]] to [[Hamburg]], [[Germany|West Germany]] on 5 July 1989 by Robert Prins member of [[De Bilt]]PASL n.49 in January 1992 between Ust’-Nera and Sasuman in East Yakutya, [[Netherlands]]. He achieved this with just four liftsRussia."

Full details == The highest speed ==*'''310 km/h''', according to '''Andrius Papickas''' and '''Viktorija Aksionova''' from Lithuania. It has happened on April 14, 2004 in Germany, between Fulda and Dresden, when travellers were returning home from Spain. The car was "BMW 550" ("Alpina"). *'''300 km/h''', according to '''Linas Migonis''' from Lithuania. On June 1, 2007, on the route Berlin - Leipzig he had a lift with 4 seated "Maseratti". The drive has attended a driving lessons of the four rides that led Formula-1 racer. *'''292 km/h''', according to this record can be found [[Prino's 24-hour record|here]]''Veit Kuehne''' from Dresden, Germany. He got a ride with a young driver (car "Audi") on a highway between Dresden and Chemnitz in July 2008.

== The US edition Slowest hitchhiking between two points ==Furthermore, the US edition also seemed to have contained *'''Ruth Cleece''' from UK. She got a '''half-mile''' ride taking '''45 minutes''' on a record for the fastest time to hitchhike through the 48 contiguous states (isteam-roller.e*'''William Innes''' from Scotland, UK. all excluding [[Alaska]] and [[Hawaii]]) He got a ride on a milk float on ‘collection’ day and in 1979 it has published a record for a trip from [[Key West]] in [[Florida]] took '''4.5 hours''' to [[Fairbanks]] in [[Alaska]]. Details of that trip can be found in [http://web.archive.org/web/20030625221556/http://www.mastery.net/travel/hitch.htm Key West '''2 miles''' from North London to Alaska: not without a hitch] - the particular page talks about a distance start of about 5,200 mile. Based on the data in said article, this might have been [http://goo.gl/maps/mC9YD the route..M1.]

== Further references The largest sum of money that was given to hitchhiking records a hitchhiker by a driver ==An up-*'''500 DM''', according to-date collection of hitchhiking records can be found on the [http://www.autostop'''Sahin Sisic''', from Holland.lt/records.html records page] of the [http://www.autostop.lt/main.php Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club] and additional articles on hitchhiking records were written in the late 1990's by Bernd Wechner for Suite101:

<ul><li>[httpNote://berndPlease pay attention to this fact – there are not the officially proven records.wechnerThere are only claims of hitchers about their extremes.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?05 World Records: Musings on what makes a record breaking hitch.]<li>[http://berndThis list of records is for us – hitchhikers (we should be happy for our colleges, not to be envious!), for novices who do not know anything about hitching, but they are proud of their only travel abroad.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?06 More Records: Record breaking hitches in summary]<li>[http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?17 Me Hitch-hiker, You Hitch-hikee: Turning the tables]</ul>