![]() There are climbers seeking glory, urbanites seeking respite, believers seeking salvation, protesters seeking change, flaneurs seeking amusements, joggers seeking slimness. In another era, Charles Dickens desperately paced London's streets ''if I couldn't walk fast and far,'' he said, ''I should explode and perish.'' Walkers abound. A woman known as Peace Pilgrim set out in 1953 on a pilgrimage for world peace, beginning at the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena, Calif., and logging perhaps 80,000 miles before, in 1981, she was killed in a car that had offered her a lift. ![]() One explorer trekked 1,700 miles across the Australian outback accompanied by three camels. ![]() There are as many walks as there are walkers. ![]()
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