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<li>Possibly around '''1,100 km''' by [[User:Prino|Prino]] from the Netherlands. 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>
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* '''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 [httphttps://prino.neocities.org/miscellaneous/prino%27s%2024prinos-24-hour%20record-record.html here].
== Lifetime hitchhiking ==
* '''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 ==
* '''–63°C'''. It was for hitchhiker '''Elena Saturova''', member of PASL 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.
== The highest speed ==
== 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 changed direction retunred into the previous country at the border.
== Highest number of countries within 10 days ==
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<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>
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== 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''' 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 ==
