Italian man sets out to cycle 'world's longest road'

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 18 - A 24-year-old Umbrian man set out Friday to cycle the world's longest road from the southern tip of Africa to the easternmost point in Asia.
    Lorenzo Barone, from San Gemini near Terni, flew his bike and 15kg of material from Fiumicino to South Africa, where he will set out from Agulhas on the 29,000 km trek to Dezhnev in Russia.
    He will rise through Namibia, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt, where he will sail to Turkey, cross Georgia and arrive in Russia.
    The tour will touch three continents, 12 countries and as many time zones for a total duration of around one year and two months, involving a thermal excursion of around 110 degrees C, from +50 in Africa to -60 in Russia.
    "Technically I'm sure it is a feasible journey, because I have already experienced all the conditions that I will find," Barone told ANSA.
    "My main concern is what I will find, also at a political level, in Africa, a continent I don't know very well.
    "But that's the beauty of the adventure, putting yourself to the test and facing what you don't know.
    "Furthermore, I'll have to see if my head will be able to last such a long time travelling, far from my home and my wife Aygul, whom I met in Russia".
    So far in his career Barone has ridden across 43 countries.
    Between 2020 and 2021 he travelled across the freezing wastes of Siberia at the coldest time of the year, and then the world's most northern road, still in Siberia". (ANSA).