{"id":167534,"date":"2025-09-29T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167534\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T06:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:41:08","slug":"cyclists-round-the-world-trip-inspired-by-grandads-benevolence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167534\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist&#8217;s round-the-world trip inspired by grandad&#8217;s benevolence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is hoped the trip, for which Mr Tusting has planned to cycle 40,000 km (24,855 miles), will raise \u00a310,000 by the time he finishes &#8211; at the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said his epic cycle had taken him along the world&#8217;s second highest road, the Pamir Highway &#8211; which reaches 4,600 metres (15,092 ft) high &#8211; across the Pamir mountains through Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, where the &#8220;air was pretty thin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bike industry worker, who has been camping in some of the world&#8217;s remotest spots, said he had been inspired by his grandfather to try to make a difference to the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Tusting hoped his endeavours would allow youngsters to stay at the Chellington Centre to enjoy its outdoor pursuits, when their circumstances would normally make it difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is hoped the trip, for which Mr Tusting has planned to cycle 40,000 km (24,855 miles), will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-167534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}