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* '''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; Lion 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 UKtime, the [[Netherlands]]. It was done by in 4 lifts in [[Greece]], through [[Yugoslavia]], [[Austria]] and [[Germany]] during 20.47 hours. Start of the first lift at the border between Greece and Yougoslavia, end at the Siegburg (south of Köln) motorway 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 had been was included in on page 179 of the '''UK''' 1991 edition of the GBOR. The actual entry on page 179Guinness Book of Records. Full details of the four rides that led to this record can be found [[Prino's https://prino.neocities.org/miscellaneous/prinos-24-hour -record|.html here]].

* '''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.

* The [http://hitchwiki.org/en/DTSG [DTSG]] members [http://hitchwiki.org/en/[User:Koendev |Koen de Jong]] and [http://hitchwiki.org/en/[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''' has been hitch-hiking since 1979 and still hitchhiked every day until [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 covered about '''1,500,000 km''' not staying more than 3 months in one place.

* Tiksi, North Russia, '''71° 36''''. It was done by '''Andrey Sapunov and Alexandr Dmitrievskyi'''' from 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.

* 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 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 hitchhiked to Mt Everest base camp from Shigatse in August 2005 and then hitchhiked to Nepal from Mt Everest.

* '''+50°C'''according to '''[[User:farben. It were for hitchhikers from Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club expedition to Iran and Pakistan rausch|farben.rausch]]''' experienced '''Vladas Sapranavicius 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.

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* '''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 "Maserati". 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.

* [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.

* '''30''', according to Miran Ipavec from Slovenia. Miran hitched this in 9 days, 20 hours and 25 minutes, starting on 2015-04-01.04.2015. In this order he passed these countries: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania*, Ukraine, Serbia, Macedonia*, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Bosniaand 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.

* <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 the [[Netherlands]]. Frank drove from service station Gralla Ost on the A9 near [[Graz]], [[Austria]] (26.2015-05.2015 @ 22h19-26T22:19) to service station Medenbach Ost on the A3 near [[Frankfurt am Main]], [[Germany]] (27.2015-05.2015 @ 10h28-27T10:28).</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 minites minutes to cover this distance on foot...

== The largest sum of money that 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.* '''Robertas Pogorelis''' from Vilnius, Lithuania. 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 given driving to school. Everything was legal: the driver held a hitchhiker by temporary licence and was sitting next to her 16-year-old sister who had a driver full licence. == Largest hitch-hiking events ==*'''500 DMTraditional SOBER hitch-hikers' gathering in Moscow region''', according to 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'Sahin Sisicgathering in Moscow region'''on river Dubna, from [[The Netherlands]]. 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.

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

<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

Full details of the four rides that led to this record can be found [[Prino's 24http://prino.neocities.org/miscellaneous/prino%27s%2024-hour record|%20record.html here]].

<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]