Meet the 23-Year-Old Who’s Halfway Through a 9,500-Mile Coastal Walk For a Great Cause

23-year-old Alex Ellis Roswell from Kent, England has been walking the coastline of the United Kingdom and Ireland for the past two years and is still only halfway through his journey.

He started the 9,500-mile-walk back on August 3, 2014 and has already raised £30,000 (almost $38K USD) for RNLI Lifeboats, a charity that’s dedicated to saving lives at sea.

As he approaches his third winter, he says he has no plans to stop anytime soon.

Ellis says that he started the walk as a “way to clear his head after the death of a close family member, wanting to do something very positive and completely different with his life.”

“I started walking on a hot Sunday in August 2014, with very little idea what I was getting myself into. The biggest challenge of walking the coasts of Britain and Ireland has probably been the weather. Particularly the weather this (past) winter when I was on the west coast of Ireland – the wettest winter on record!”

“I’ve been lucky this autumn,” he said. “It’s been dry. The colours of the leaves and heather have been breathtaking at times. But the leaves are almost all gone now and the temperature is falling fast as I walk into my third Winter.”

He expects to finish, returning back to his hometown of Kent sometime in 2018.

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