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== The highest point on land ==
* Kala Patthar in Nepal '''5,644 meters'''. It was done by Portuguese hitchhiker '''Luís Terra Pinto''' as part of a world tour hitchhiking leaving from home without money and only surviving busking with his mandolin. He travelled by hitchiking all the way until the end of the road in Jiri, Nepal and then mostly walked but also got a few rides until base camp conquering Kala Patthar's peak the following day on the 1st of January 2013.* Mountain Everest base camp in Nepal - '''5,400 meters'''. It was done by Czech hitchhiker '''Pavel Trcala'''. He got the ride from Everest Base camp two days after climbing Everest on his return to Kathmandu on 1 June 2005. Later the same place was also conquered by several other hitchhikers: '''Nuutti Palonen (Finland), Radha Krishnan (India), and Tai Häring (Germany) and Luís Terra Pinto (Portugal)'''. They also hitchhiked to Mt Everest base camp from Shigatse in August 2005 and then hitchhiked to Nepal from Mt Everest.
* Gyatso-La mountain pass in Tibet, on the way from Lhasa to Nepalese border - '''5,220 meters'''. It was done by two Polish hitchhikers '''Kinga and Chopin''' on 11 May 2003.
* The mountain pass in the Andes, South Peru – 5,100 meters. It was done bye '''Alexey Vorov''' and '''Mikhail Dutkevich''' ([[PASL]]) in May 1993.
