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== 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) 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.
* '''+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 ==
== 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 ==