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World-famous Norwegian travel guru Gunnar Garfors has teamed up with Dutch duo Erik de Zwart and Ronald Haanstra in an audacious attempt to travel 6 continents in 63 hours!

Legendary radio host de Zwart, happiness seeker Haanstra and Garfors are accompanied by globetrotter Derek Bell (UK) and YouTube-phenomenon PelleK (Norway) in the record-breaking attempt that starts on June 6.

- This adventure starts somewhere in Africa, and if everything goes to according to plan, we will return to the very same place 63 hours later with a new world record. In less than three days we will visit Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, South America and Europe. We will fly on scheduled airlines only, one of the criteria for the record to be approved as a Guinness World Record, explains team leader Garfors. The team even managed to land a sponsor deal for the record-attempt with European betting giant ComeOn!

Erik de Zwart and Ronald Haanstra are long-time friends with Norwegian traveller Garfors, and was instantly enthusiastic about his record-breaking plans.

- We have experienced a lot through the years, but never done a world-record! When Gunnar came calling, we knew straight away that this would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. We are very excited, and are really looking forward to hectic, but epic hours of travel around  the globe, de Zwart says.

Due to security reasons, the detailed travel plans are a well-kept secret. Fans of the record-attempt can however follow the journey as it unveils through the website recordrunworld.com, #recordrunworld on Twitter and the recordrunworld Facebook page.

YouTube-wonder PelleK (over 2 mill. followers) will also post directly from the trip on his social media channels.

- Our goal is always to have fun, to inspire people to explore the world and to show that even big dreams can come true. We hope to reach new audiences through such an international team with PelleK documenting the record attempt to his followers worldwide, Garfors says.

If the crew succeeds in breaking the current world record, it will be the seventh travel world record for Gunnar Garfors. He also holds records for visiting the most countries in 24 hours (19), the most US states in 24 hours (22), every county in the UK (48) in 24 hours and the most continents in a day (5).