British cyclist breaks Guinness record by circling the world in 78 days

Paris (France), Sep 20 (ANI): British endurance cyclist Mark Beaumont smashed the Guinness World Record for the fastest circumnavigation, finishing ahead a day and a half of his goal of 80 days. He arrived in Paris on Monday. Beaumont set himself the challenge of cycling around 18,000 miles (29,000km) across the planet. His trip saw him heading east across Europe through Poland, Russia, Mongolia and China before hopping onto a plane and cycling from Perth to Brisbane across the deserts of Australia and cycling again through New Zealand before crossing North America from Alaska to eastern Canada and finally starting again from Lisbon and cycling back to Paris.