Famous Scottish cyclist Mark Beaumont is getting on his bike again, this time to cycle the longest unbroken journey in the world.
His planned trek sees Perthshire-born Beaumont take on a 15,000-mile journey from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America, while filming a new TV documentary to be shown next year.
The new challenge comes just 15 months after the 26 year old broke the record for pedalling round the world, when he completed the 18,297 miles in just 194 days and 17 hours, in the process breaking the Guinness World Record by 81 days.
During that record-breaking effort he was knocked off his bike, robbed by crack addicts and targeted by road-rage drivers - and as he plans to get off on his latest expedition in the next few days he’ll be hoping for a smoother ride.
Beaumont’s book The Man Who Cycled The World comes out on Saturday, and details his amazing feat of endurance which ended up raising £18,000 for charity, as well as the background to the much publicised success story.
When he was twelve, Beaumont cycled across Scotland from Dundee to Oban, then a few years later, while still at school, completed the 1,000 mile solo ride across Britain from John O'Groats to Land's End.
On the world-round journey he travelled from Paris to Istanbul, through Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India and south-east Asia to Singapore, then across Australia, New Zealand and the United States before the final legs in Europe, all at hundred miles a day.
