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* '''Alexey Vorov''', president of the [[PASL|St. Petersburg Autostop League]]. He has covered about '''1,973,650 km''' (updated: 14th September 2015) by hitchhiking. Hitching experience – from 1977 on. He is still hitchhiking, so it is not the final number.
* '''Benoit Grieu''', French hitchhiker. 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'''. For some years, he hitchhiked more than 100,000 km/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'''.]
== The longest rides with one car ==
== The highest point on land ==
* 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.
* 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.
* '''+55°C''' experienced '''Alexey Vorov, Andrey Kuritsin, Ol’ga Bandurko, Andrey Leipi and Nadezhda Makarova''' in summer 1981 near Ashchabad, Turkmenistan.
* '''+52°C'''. 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 [[Abu Dhabi]] airport to the city center. 19th August 2015.
* '''+50°C''' according to '''[[User:farben.rausch|farben.rausch]]''' experienced '''Stefan Korn and Noah Essl''' in August 2016 as they entered the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasht-e_Lut Lut Desert] in [[Iran]] to cross it. They waited 3 hours before they got a ride all the way through.
== The lowest temperature ==
* '''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 "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.
* '''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.
== 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 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 ==
