Richard Löwenherz (extreme cyclist)
Richard Löwenherz (* approx. 1980) is a German meteorologist and extreme cyclist who covers long and far northern tours, sometimes on a bike in winter .
Life
Löwenherz comes from Niederlausitz and now lives in Berlin . After studying geography at the Free University of Berlin , he worked as a meteorologist. He presents his travels in multimedia lectures in Germany and Switzerland.
Between 1993 and 2016 he covered around 113,000 km with a standard mountain bike . He has his overnight equipment with him. The lowest temperature he recorded was minus 50 degrees. The bike with equipment sometimes weighs 90 to 100 kg. On a tour like the one through northern Siberia, he managed 30 to 80 kilometers a day.
His travels took him to media attention u. a. to southern Sweden, Fennoscandia & the Baltic States, Karelia, Iceland, subpolar & polar Urals, northern Russia and northern Jakutia (in chronological order). He has been traveling by rubber dinghy , also combined, since 2014 . His trips last between two and 14 weeks.
Web links
- lonelytraveller.de , his private web presence
- The 100,000 kilometers of Richard the Lionheart , report on Löwenherz in the NZZ from March 28, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/reisen-mit-dem-fahrrad-um-die-welt-1
- ↑ https://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Auf-dem-Rad-durch-den-arktischen-Winter-article3150986.html
- ↑ http://www.lonelytraveller.de/reisen.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lionheart, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German extreme cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lower Lusatia |