SUPER-TRAMP’S BET

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4405, 16 October 1934, Page 2

SUPER-TRAMP’S BET

THIRTY YEARS’ WALK. A Budapest, newspaper reports that a super-tramp lias arrived in Pees, after covering 166,000 kilometres of the world on foot. Thirty-three years ago. at the age of lit, Mr Imre Fibinger emigrated to Mexico, and conducted his studies as engineer. While employed at the Mexico Railway Building Trust, lie made a bet with Mr Astor, the president of the Trust, by which lie undertook to walk over the whole world in 30 years, and visit the capitals of 5G States, for the sum of 100,000 in gold l . Mr. Fibinger, who is en route for Poland, the Baltic States, Liverpool, and San Francisco, pays his way by lecturing and will publish his memoirs at the conclusion of his walk, which he expects to end on December 31, 1939. Mr Fibinger states that the two most unpleasant experiences of his world-tramp were being knocked down by a motor-cycle in Hyde Park, London. and being attacked by wolyes in Idkutsk, in Russia.