How to Become an Adventurer & Explorer: 6 x World Record holder Jonas Deichmann. Jonas is an Extreme Athlete and Adventurer who has cycled 400 000 km.
Jonas Deichmann grew up in Grunbach in the northern Black Forest and in neighboring Pforzheim , where he attended the Fritz Erler School. Until the beginning of 2018 he worked as a sales manager at an IT company from Sweden. With the support of his employer, Deichmann managed the Eurasia ultra-long distance ride by bike, which he completed without an additional care team and without any further accompaniment. Since 2018, Deichmann and his company Jonas Deichmann Adventures have been an independent extreme athlete and adventurer. He also appears as a motivational speaker in several languages.

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In the summer of 2017, he drove the 14,331 kilometers from Cabo da Roca in Portugal (starting on July 2, 2017) to Vladivostok in Russia in 64 days, 2 hours and 25 minutes and set two world records over this distance. For the 6,400-kilometer section from Cabo da Roca to Ufa , which is equivalent to crossing mainland Europe, he needs 25 days, 3 hours and 38 minutes. His times are a world record for both the entire route and the section in Europe .

Between August 19, 2018 and November 24, 2018, Deichmann covered the 23,112-kilometer route from Prudhoe Bay in the northern part of Alaska to Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego in the new world record time of 97 days, 21 hours and 10 minutes. On his journey he drove through 14 states, crossed five time zones and overcame 195,800 meters of altitude. The previous world record for cycling on the Panamericana was 125 days. For the South American part, Deichmann needed 44 days for his unaccompanied journey. The previous record was 58 days.

From September 8, 2019 to November 19, 2019, he undertook another record trip from the North Cape to Cape Town in 72 days, 7 hours and 27 minutes. At the beginning he was accompanied by the Düsseldorf photographer and long-distance driver Philipp Hympendahl. He made the 18,000-kilometer journey 30 days faster than the previous record holder.
Interviewed by Daniel Swärd from Inspirational People.