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Please pay attention to this fact – there these are (mostly) not the officially proven records. There are only , but claims of hitchers about hitchhikers regarding their extremes. This list of records is for us – hitchhikers (we should be happy for our collegescolleagues, not to be envious!), for novices who do not know anything about hitching, but they are proud of their only travel abroad.

==The longest distances passed on land during Note that this page is a near copy of the 24 hours period==*'''2777 km''' (1736 miles), according to [mailtohttp:pavel@trcala//web.com Pavel Trcala], from Czech Republicarchive. Time 28 November 1998 7:30 a.m. - 29 November 1998 6:30 a.m. The route: Miami to Chicago 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''', according to [org/web/20130430232108/http://wwwautostop.vladaslt/rekordai.comhtml Rekordai] / Vladas Sapranavicius], member of Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club. Time: 21 August 1996 10 p.m. – 22 August 1996 10 p.m. Web destination counter [http://wwwweb.viamichelinarchive.comorg/ 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 (with waiting for the ride + a cup of beer in the restaurant): 115 kmweb/h. The maximum speed: 170 km20130125093731/h. *'''2318.4 km''', according to [http://hitchwikiwww.orgautostop.lt/en/User:Prino Robert Prinsrecords.html Records], hitchhiker from the UKof Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas. It was done by 4 lifts in Greece, Yugoslavia, Austria and Germany during 20.47 hours. Start Some of the first lift at the border between Greece and Yougoslaviarecords, end at the Siegburg those marked '''(south of KolnHGE) 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 were originally published in the 1991 edition of the GBOR. The actual entry on page 179. Full details of the four rides that led Ken Welsh' "Hitchhikers Guide to this record can be found [[Prino's 24-hour record|here]]Europe".

Feel free to add your own record(s), but please do not make list longer than '''five''' records. If you still want to add a record when there are already five entries, and your record is not in the top-5, you can create a sub-page for the particular record. == The longest distances passed on land during the 24 hours period == All life * '''2777 km''' (1736 miles), according to [mailto:[email protected] Pavel Trcala], from [[Czech Republic]]. Time 28 November 1998 07:30 - 29 November 1998 06:30. The route: Miami to Chicago 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''', according to [http://www.vladas.com/ Vladas Sapranavicius], member of [[VHHC|Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club]]. Time: 21 August 1996 22:00 – 22 August 1996 22:00 [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) – Lyon (F) – Frankfurt (D) – Potsdam (D). 4 lifts (Almeria – Montpellier; Montpellier – Lyon; Lyon – Salzgitter; Salzgitter – Potsdam). The average speed (including waiting for the ride + a cup of beer in the restaurant): 115 km/h. The maximum speed: 170 km/h. * [[File:Gbor-cut.jpg|left|thumb|280px]] '''2318.4 km''', according to [[User:Prino|Robert Prins]], hitchhiker from, at the time, the [[Netherlands]]. It was done in 4 lifts through [[Yugoslavia]], [[Austria]] and [[Germany]] during 20.47 hours. The record was included on page 179 of the '''UK''' 1991 edition of the Guinness Book of Records. Full details of the four rides that led to this record can be found [https://prino.neocities.org/miscellaneous/prinos-24-hour-record.html here]. == Lifetime hitchhiking ==*'''Alexey Vorov''', president of Sant the [[PASL|St. Petersburg Autostop League (PASL)]]. He has covered about '''1,963973,850 650 km''' (updated: 14th September 2015) by hitch-hikinghitchhiking. Hitching experience – from 1982 in Sant Petersburg Autostop League1977 on. He is still hitchhiking, so it is not the finished final number. *'''Benoit Grieu''', French hitch-hikerhitchhiker. Started his trip in 1979 and since then all the time on the road. During this trip he has covered about '''1,500,000 km'''. He hitch-hiked For some years for , he hitchhiked more than 100, 000 km/year and he  hitch-hiked currently more than 50, 000 km every year. He travel 3 continents and about 15 countries every year[http://beni.eurower.net/ His current whereabouts are sadly unknown. ]*'''Stephan Schlei'''. He claims [https://twitter.com/gardainfo/status/1174772009026379778 '''9411,000,500 000 km''' .]

* In 2015 '''Aliosha Yazylets''', a Belorussian hitchhiker, together with one other person, hitchhiked over '''12,000 km''' in one lift from Tadjikistan, via China, Mongolia, Irkutsk and Moscow in Russia, all the way to Lvov in western Ukraine.*'''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. '''(HGE)''' '''Note:''' This record was copied from Ken Welsh' "Hitchhikers Guide to Europe". L.J. may have recorded the distance as miles in a car with a KM odometer, as the distance seems far too great to be in kilometres. *'''Alexey Anofriev''' from Vladivostok ([[Russia]]) hitch-hiked hitchhiked from Vladivostok (23 May, 2001) to Shimanovsk (the finish end of the road) and got a lift to Samara there. From Shimanovsk to Shilka on the railroad platform together with a the car and from Shilka to Samara by car (Toyota Celica). Totaly Totally it was about '''6800 km''' long lift since from 28 May till until 4 June! After Afterwards, the drivers went to Krasnodar and Alexey hitchhiked on to Saint St. Petersburg. He arrived to Saint St. Petersburg on 7 June, 2001. *'''Benoit Grieu''', French hitch-hiker didi hitchhiker who hitchhiked about '''6000 km''' in one lift from Anchorage (Alaska) to San Diego (California). == Most rides taken in 24 hours ==* The [[DTSG]] members [[User:Koendev|Koen de Jong]] and [[User:Korn|Stefan Korn]] had '''32 rides''' during a DTSG-Competition on 2 May 2014 in Germany (between 08:00 and 23:30).

*'''Benoit Grieu''', French hitch-hiker hitchhiker during 4 or 5 years (for exemple example 1989, 1993, 1995, 1997) has been hitch-hiking hitchhiked more than '''100,000 km''' per year (in 1995 - 113,000 km).*'''Alexey Vorov''' - '''78,800 km'''. It was done in 1991.*'''Vilmantas Trumpickas''' from Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club has covered '''56,000 km''' during the year 2010.

*'''Benoit Grieu''' has been hitch-hiking since 1979 and till now he still hitch-hikes almost hitchhiked every dayuntil [http://beni.eurower.net/ he disappeared], [http://www.autostopmagellan.ro/benoit-grieu-de-timotei-rad/] {{ro}}, on his way to Nepal in 2011. 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 [[PASL]] in 17 February 1992 – July 1993. The trip started 4 hitchhikers: '''Alexey Vorov, Mikhail Dutkevich, Kiril Baranov and Victor Grigor’ev''', but finished only Alexey and Mikhailfinished the complete journey. The route was around the World via world through 25 countries in Europe, Asia, South and North America. The length of the route '''~83,000 km'''.* In 2014 Stefan [[User:Korn|Korn]] started a circumnavigation expedition. The trip took him 22 months, passing through 58 countries in 5 continents and covering a total distance of '''108.895 km'''. His expedition was documented in his travel blog [https://warmroads.de/en/hitchhiking-around-the-world/ warmroads.de].

*'''Alexey Vorov'''. He waited for a lift '''3 days''' in Chucotka, Far North, Russia to move 50km and then waited another 3 days for the second lift in country the Komsomol'skij county till got a lift to Majskij (50 km). The minimum temperature in his on this travel was -55°C in country Tyoplyj Kluch county (Chucotka).

*'''Benoit Grieu''', French hitch-hiker, has been hitch-hiking hitchhiked in about '''170''' countries. *'''Pavel TrcalaVladimir Nesin'''is famous for barefoot walking, hitch-hiker from Czech republicand has been in 138 countries. In all of them he hitchhiked at least one time, excepting Mongolia, which he traversed completely on foot. He This means he has hitch-hiked hitchhiked in '''108137''' countries, although in many of them only a little bit. *'''Dainius KinderisVladimir Sharlaev''', member of Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club, Lithuaniafrom St. He Petersburg has hitch-hiked hitchhiked in '''62''' 138 countries (Europe, Asiaif counting "not officially recognized territories" . We are not sure how many officially recognized nation-states that amounts to exactly, Africa but it must be somewhere "'between 120 and North America)135"' countries.

*'''Neringa Raulusonyte and Kristina Zukaite''' from the Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club. They got a ride from a '''55 years old German driver''' with a Toyota Corolla, which was going just '''50 km'''. However, later he offered them to prolong the lift according to their wishes. The driver gave them a ride using the route Berlin - Frankfurt/M - Koblenz - Luxembourg - Paris - Bruxelles - The Netherlands - Hamburg - Berlin - Torun - Kalvarija - Vilnius. From 2001-08-29/08/until 2001 until -09-04/09/2001 the girls covered 4000 km in the same car. So The total deviation from driver's route was - '''3950 km''' (drivers way back is not included). *'''600 km''' (at least) to one side. It was for three hitch-hikers from the VGTU Tourist Club, Lithuania. The lift was given on the Lithuanian – Polish border. The driver should go to Czech Republic, but after he spoke to one of the hitchhikers, he took them till until the Germany German border (Szczecin). After the crossing the German border he went back to Poland and after to CzechiaCzech Republic. Also he gave them 150 EEK (~11 USD). These hitchhikers were: '''Vladas Sapranavicius, Jovita Garnyte and Asta Ruzgyte'''.

*[http://www.morgenweb.de/mannheim/mannheim-stadt/samariter-hinterm-steuer-gibt-hobby-auf-1.710444 '''Dieter Wesch'''], the self-styled [http://www.autobild.de/artikel/der-engel-der-anhalter-35825.html '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-book. There was given a number from the guest-book - '''9528'''. It's probably not a last final number.*'''Jim Sanderson (‘Angel’'Angel')'''. He has about 5000 photos with the hitchhikers he gave a lift to (mostly in pairs), 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.

*Island of Dunay, north of Tiksi, North Russia, '''73°56''''. It was done by '''Konstantin Savva''' from Moscow Hitch-hiking Hitchhiking School (Russia) and his girlfriend Polina Kuleshova on in September 2002.* Urung-Haia, North Russia, '''73°'''. It was done by '''Konstantin Savva''' from Moscow Hitch-hiking Hitchhiking School (Russia) on May 2002.* Tiksi, North Russia, '''71° 36''''. It was done by '''Andrey Sapunov and Alexandr Dmitrievskyi'''' from Ukrainen hitch-hiking Ukrainian hitchhiking club "Mainroad" (Ukraine) on autumn 2002.* Phillips Petroleum drilling operations near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, '''71°''' N was done by '''Ilmar Island''' from Pompano Beach, FL as the starting point for a Guinness World Record run from Prudhoe Bay, AK to Key West, FL which was accomplished in 6-days, 17-hours and 22-minutes. However since the route included trespassing for 510-miles on oil company owned roads the record was not honoured and instead Guinness recognized Mr. Island's run from Key West, FL to Fairbanks, AK in 5-days, 20-hours and 52-minutes that he accomplished a few days earlier in June of 1979.

*Scott Base, Antarctica, '''77° 51''''. Hitchhiker from USA '''Benjaman Bachelder''' hitched 5 km from McMurdo Station to 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 (photo), '''65° 15'''' - 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, 54° 48'. *'''Arndt Writzel''' from Germany cut a record of The the farthest point in the South. He reached Ushuaia town in southern Argentina in 2001 02 03.

*Mountain Kala Patthar in Nepal - '''5,644 meters'''. It was done by Portuguese hitchhiker '''Luís Terra Pinto''' as part of a round the world hitchhiking trip leaving from home without any money and only surviving busking with his mandolin. He hitchhiked 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.* Mount Everest base camp in Nepal - '''5,400 meters'''. It was done by Czech hitch-hiker hitchhiker '''Pavel Trcala'''. He got the ride from Everest Base 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)'''. They also hitch-hiked hitchhiked to Mt Everest base camp from Shigatse in August 2005 and then hitch-hiked 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 hitch-hikers hitchhikers '''Kinga and Chopin''' in on 11 May 2003.*The mountain pass in the Andes, South Peru – 5,100 meters. It was done bye '''Alexey Vorov''', president of PASL (n.4) and '''Mikhail Dutkevich''', member of ([[PASL n.29 ]]) in May 1993.

*'''+55°C'''. It were for hitchhikers, experienced '''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 and Nadezhda Makarova''' in summer 1981 near Ashchabad, Turkmenistan.*'''+50°C52°C'''. It were for hitchhikers Bertrand [https://www.facebook.com/groups/hitchgathering/permalink/1164783520201879/?comment_id=1164787246868173&offset=0&total_comments=7&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R4%22%7D hitchhiked] from Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club expedition [[Abu Dhabi]] airport to the city center. 19th August 2015.* '''+50°C''' according to Iran and Pakistan '''Vladas Sapranavicius [[User:farben.rausch|farben.rausch]]''' experienced '''Stefan Korn and Inga GarnyteNoah Essl''' in ancient city Bam (SAugust 2016 as they entered the [https://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Dasht-e_Lut Lut Desert] in [[Iran) in middle of July, 1999]] to cross it. They waited 3 hours before they got a ride all the way through.

*'''–61°C–63°C'''. It was for hitchhiker '''Elena Saturova''', member of PASL n.49 in January 1992 between Ust’-Nera and Sasuman in East Yakutya, Russia.* During their expedition to the Nordkapp in January 2018, hitchhikers of the DTSG encountered temperatures down to '''–30 °C''' in Finnish Lapland. The hitchhiking nomad '''Sven Kopf''' even slept outside during those temperatures.

<!-- Missing image... [[Image:Maserati_3200GT_Assetto_Corsa_2001.jpg|right|thumb|200px|This Maserati has nothing to do with these records.]] -->*'''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 '''[[User:Prino|Prino]]''', on 25 May 2016 around 20:30, during a ride from [[MOP]] Nowostawy on the [[A2 (Poland)|Polish A2]] to a petrol station on the exit [[Poznan]] Komorniki (the driver missed MOP Tulce). The car was a Mercedes E63 AMG. The driver made an attempt to break the 310 km/h record mentioned above, but lack of free road made this impossible. *'''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 "MaserattiMaserati". The drive has attended a driving lessons of Formula-1 racer.* '''294 km/h''', according to '''[[User:Rebew|Rebew]]''', on 30 June 2022 on the A9 in a BMW. After a few compliments for the car, the driver made a few attempts to break 300 km/h but got stopped by traffic each time. *'''292 km/h''', according to '''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. * At least '''280''' and more than likely exceeding '''290''' km per hour, according to [[User:Prino|Prino]] on 27 May 2015 from Raststätte Fränkische Schweiz/Pegnitz Ost (departure @ 06:05) to Raststätte Fläming Ost (arrival @ 07:49). The odometer'ed distance was 304.0 km (both Google Maps and Bing Maps give the distance as 308 km) and the ride included a refuelling stop of 11 minutes (06:58 - 07:09). The driver used a Cougar system and didn't pay any attention to speed restrictions, other than slightly slowing down in roadworks. The car was an Audi RS6 Quattro. == Fastest round the world hitchhike trip ==* [http://transglobal-race.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40&Itemid=35&lang=en '''20 days +1h31m17s'''], according to Alexej Vorov from Russia. Alexej hitch-hiked from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, from Seattle to Boston and from Madrid to St. Petersburg starting 01.10.2014 00h00 and finishing 21.10.2014 01h31:17. He passed the countries Russia, USA, Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. == Highest number of countries within 24 hours ==* '''10''', according to Miran Ipavec from Slovenia. Miran hitched this in 23 hours and 15 minutes, starting on 2018-03-14. In this order he passed these countries: Serbia, Croatia*, Bosnia and Herzegovina**, Slovenia*, Italy**, Austria*, Germany**, Hungary*, Slovakia, Czech Republic. Countries marked * were passed twice and at those marked ** Ipavec retunred into the previous country at the border. == Highest number of countries within 10 days ==* '''30''', according to Miran Ipavec from Slovenia. Miran hitched this in 9 days, 20 hours and 25 minutes, starting on 2015-04-01. In this order he passed these countries: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania*, Ukraine, Serbia, Macedonia*, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia*, Slovenia*, Italy, Austria*, Czech Republic, Germany*, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. Countries marked * were passed twice. Kosovo, not recognised by the UN, is excluded from this list. == Longest "driving the driver" ride ==<ul><li> [[User:Korn|Stefan Korn]] hitchhiked from Fairbanks down to British Colombia and got a 2676km long ride from [[Tok]] [[Alaska]] to [[Cache Creek]] in [[British Columbia]] (2014-01-13T). Around '''1.600 km''' he drove by himself.</li> <li>'''1,113.6 km''', by [[User:Prino|Prino]] from the Netherlands, a ride from service station Deersels on the A67 near [[Sevenum]], [[The Netherlands]] (2018-09-04T14:13) to service station Brwinów on the A2 near [[Brwinów]], [[Poland]] (2018-09-05T12:24) - Prino drove the entire distance, driver even paid for a hotel room at night. Possibly around '''1,100 km''', also by [[User:Prino|Prino]]. During his longest ride, a 2,502.9 km monster from a petrol station near [[Platamonas]] (1990-08-13T16:32) in [[Greece]] to [[Driebergen]] (1990-08-15T12:54) in the Netherlands, he drove during five periods, for a total time of 10:06 out of a total driving time of 22:41. The distance is based on the average speed of the ride, and the sections driven.</li> <li>'''781 km''', according to [[User:Fverhart|Frank Verhart]] from the [[Netherlands]]. Frank drove from service station Gralla Ost on the A9 near [[Graz]], [[Austria]] (2015-05-26T22:19) to service station Medenbach Ost on the A3 near [[Frankfurt am Main]], [[Germany]] (2015-05-27T10:28).</li></ul>

* '''William Innes''' from Scotland, UK. He got a ride on a milk float on 'collection' day and it took 4.5 hours to travel 2 miles from North London to the start of the M1. '''(HGE)''' Note: It would take a reasonably fit person about 30 minutes to cover this distance on foot...*'''Ruth Cleece''' from UK. She got a '''half-mile''' ride taking '''45 minutes''' on a steam-roller. '''(HGE)''' == Youngest driver hitchhiked ==* '''Andrey Sapunov''' from Kiev, Ukraine and '''Konstantin Grishin''' from Tver, Russia. On 21 October 2020 they got a ride on Kaninë - Vlorë road, Vlorë County in Albania from a '''10-year-old''' boy. It was a 4 km ride. His other passenger was an even younger girl. *'''William InnesRobertas Pogorelis''' from ScotlandVilnius, UKLithuania. He On 23 August 2016 he got a ride from Long Island, Palau, to Koror, Palau (about 2 km) from a '''14-year-old''' girl who was driving to school. Everything was legal: the driver held a temporary licence and was sitting next to her 16-year-old sister who had a full licence. == Largest hitch-hiking events ==* '''Traditional SOBER hitch-hikers' gathering in Moscow region''',150 km from Moscow, organized by Free Travel Academy (hitch-hiking club in Moscow, Russian Federation) on 4-8 June 2021, atracted '''at least 660 participants''' (some more arrived after closing of official registration). There were 40 free lectures. 98% of participants were citizens of Russian Federation because of closed borders.* '''Traditional SOBER hitch-hikers' gathering in Moscow region''' on river Dubna, organized by Free Travel Academy (hitch-hiking club in Moscow, Russian Federation) on 4-6 September 2020, atracted '''at least 640 participants''' (some more arrived after closing of official registration). They stayed in 350 tents. There were 40 free lectures by famous hitchhikers. Manager of the event was Alexey Kuleshov. This time there were only few foreign participants because of closed borders. == Hitchhiking lap records of famous racing circuits ==From a standing start (standing on the start/finish line), thumb a vehicle down, get in it, and complete 1 lap of the circuit in the correct direction. The clock starts when you put your thumb out, and the clock stops when you cross the finish line 1 lap later. Circuit de [[Monaco]]* '''9 minutes, 12 seconds (approx)''': Sanne and [[User:Tmoon|Tom]], hitchhiking as a milk float pair, on ‘collection’ day 10 May 2009. == Guiness Book of Records Hitchhiking Entries == Until the early 1990'ies the UK edition of the Guinness Book of Records ('''GBOR''') used to list a number of hitch-hike world records. They were <ul> <li>The greatest distance hitched during a hitchhiking career <li>The fastest time to get from [[Land's End]] to [[John o'Groats]] (and the round trip) <li>The greatest distance hitched in a 24-hour period</ul> === The fastest time to get from [[Land's End]] to [[John o'Groats]] (and it took back) ===[[Land's End]] to [[John o'Groats]] is the traversal of the whole length of the island of Great Britain between two extremities. ; Land's End to John o'Groats* Martin Clark and Graham Beynon. Last hitchhikers recorded in the Guinness Book of Records for the Land's End to John O'4Groats trip.5 (17 hours8 minutes, 1987); Round-trip* Alan Carter. Last hitchhiker recorded in the Guinness Book of Records for the Land's End to John O'Groats to Land' s End round-trip. (39 hours 28 minutes) ; Earlier entries, according to travel [http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/guinness.html Bernd Wechner]: ; Single<ul> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1959-63&nbsp;&nbsp;39&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Anthony Shepherd</span> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1965-69&nbsp;&nbsp;29&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;30&nbsp;min - Ian Crawford</span> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1973-74&nbsp;&nbsp;29&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Bernard Atkins (1966) and J.F. Hornsey (1971) independently</span> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1975-77&nbsp;&nbsp;23&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;50&nbsp;min - Pam Vere and Georgina Astley (1974)</span> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1978&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;23&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;24&nbsp;min - Miranda Brooks and Margaret Allinson (1977)</span> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1980&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;21&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;55&nbsp;min - John Repton and Rosemary Grounds (1978)</span> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1981-88&nbsp;&nbsp;17&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;50&nbsp;min - Andrew Markham (1979)</span></ul> ; Round trip <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 style="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-family: monospace">1977-78&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;54&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;40&nbsp;min - Peter W. Ford (1976)</span> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1980-83&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;45&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;34&nbsp;min - Guy Hobbs (1978)</span> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1984-85&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;42&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;15&nbsp;min - Charlotte Allard and Fay Gillanders (1982)</span> <li><span style="font-family: monospace">1986-91&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;41&nbsp;hrs&nbsp;42&nbsp;min - Anthony D. Sproson (1984)</span></ul> === The greatest distance hitched in a 24-hour period ===This record was only included in the 1991 edition of the GBOR. It was held by [[User:Prino|Prino]]. The actual entry on page 179 read: "The greatest distance in 24 hours is 2318.4 km ''1440.7 miles'', from Southern [[Yugoslavia]] to [[Hamburg]], [[Germany|West Germany]] on 5 July 1989 by Robert Prins of [[De Bilt]], [[The Netherlands]]. He achieved this with just four lifts." Full details of the four rides that led to this record can be found [http://prino.neocities.org/miscellaneous/prino%27s%2024-hour%20record.html here]. == The US edition of the Guinness Book of Records ==Furthermore, the US edition also seemed to have contained a record for the fastest time to hitchhike through the 48 contiguous states (i.e. all excluding [[Alaska]] and [[Hawaii]]) and in 1979 it has published a record for a trip from [[Key West]] in [[Florida]] 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 to Alaska: not without a hitch] - the particular page talks about a distance of about 5,200 mile. Based on the data in said article, this might have been [http://goo.gl/maps/mC9YD the route...] === From [[Key West]], [[Florida]] to [[Fairbanks]], [[Alaska]] ==="A young man named Ilmar Island of Pompano Beach, Florida, Hitchhiked from Key West, Florida, to Fairbanks, Alaska, a distance of about 5200 miles, setting out on June 2 , 1979, and arriving at his destination on June 7, just 5 days 20 hours and 52 minutes later." A few days later after completing his Key West, Florida, to Fairbanks, Alaska run, Mr. Island hitched from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska back to Key West, Florida in 6-days, 17-hours and 22-minutes. However since this route included trespassing for 510-mileson oil company owned roads that record was not honored and instead Guinness recognized Mr. Island's run from Key West, Florida to Fairbanks, Alaska as mentioned above. == Further references to hitchhiking records ==Additional articles on hitchhiking records were written in the late 1990's by Bernd Wechner for Suite101: <ul> <li>[http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?05 World Records: Musings on what makes a record breaking hitch.] <li>[http://bernd.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> == Suggestions for other possible records ==If you want to do something that (probably) hasn't been done before, you can try your thumb at any of these. Don' from North London t expect to end up in the start Guinness Book of the M1Records for it, they no longer seem to have a section with hitchhiking records.

== The largest sum of money that was given * [[Nordkapp|North Cape]] to [[Gibraltar]]* [[Prudhoe Bay]] ([[Alaska]]) to a hitchhiker by a driver ==[[Ushuaia]] ([[Argentina]])*'''500 DM''', according [[Cabo da Roca]] ([[Portugal]]) to '''Sahin Sisic''', from Holland. [[Cape Dezhnev]] ([[Russia]])