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Pedal-power adventurer comes home

Adventurer Jason Lewis is due to pedal his way to the end of a 13-year, 46,000-mile human-powered global circumnavigation.

The 40-year-old Briton will bring his 26 foot pedal-craft 'Moksha' the last few miles up the River Thames to a royal welcome.

Lewis, from Askerswell, Dorset, will then push the craft on a trolley half a mile from the river to the Meridian Line at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, where the expedition began in July 1994.

There he will be given a Royal welcome by the Duke of Gloucester, the Expedition 360 patron, who launched and named the craft in 1994.

The names of the 1,868 people who supported the expedition are on the hull of Moksha. Before he began the last stage of the 16-leg expedition, Lewis admitted: "The realisation is starting to creep up that it is all coming to an end, and I will have mixed feelings when it does."

Moksha, built in Exeter, Devon, crossed the Channel, twice, as well as the Atlantic, the Pacific and part of the Indian Ocean.

During his global journey, Lewis had both legs broken by a car in the USA while he was inline skating across the continent, was chased by a crocodile in Australia, capsized in the Atlantic and was arrested as a potential spy in Egypt.

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