WALKING ROUND WORLD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 8 September 1938, Page 12

WALKING ROUND WORLD

TU WIN £2OOO BET DANISH ENGINEER ON TOUR J IP.v Air Mail Special Correspondent! LONDON, 2Ctfi August. Dr. Charles Mundfort, a Danish engineer of 39, who is walking round the world to win a C2uoo bet, is now in London trying to find a ship to take him across the Atlantic—free. By walking through 15 European countries lie has just completed a quarter of I hif 36,000-niile tour. "It all goes back to the night when! w-i had a private party at (lie Ciub," said | Dr. Mondfort. "It happened in 1936. We j had a convivial evening at the club and , next morning I found that I had signed j a kind of agreement lo walk round Europe, I pacing my way with nothing but what I : receive from selling postcards of myself. "I said •That's easy. I'll fake Hie Ul j on and walk round the world without i touching my bank account or wiring home | for any.’ "So l set out for Berlin and since 1956 I have walked light through Germany, j Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Gieece, Italy, j I* ranee and Belgium. And, people hav e been good. If I complete the trip- and I I can see nothing to stop me at the moment j -I’make T2GOO. If I give m 1 shall have j to pay T 250. I've been penniless at times | And it was very, very hard to get through j areas of Bulgaria “Fourteen days more I have in Britain, .then I must get a ship to New York- -and the terms of my bet mean t hat, I must get it without paying."