Torbjørn C. Pedersen
Danish traveller and adventurer
Torbjørn C. "Thor" Pedersen (born 19 December 1978) is a Danish traveller and adventurer known for the Once Upon a Saga project: a journey to visit every country in the world without the use of air travel. The project began in 2013 and lasted for over nine years, and Pedersen visited all of the planned 203 nations before finally returning to Denmark by ship. He is, next to Graham Hughes, the first known person to have travelled through every country on the planet without using a plane. While Hughes interrupted his world tour to travel to his home country by plane, Pedersen travelled continuously without interruption.
Early life
Torbjørn Cederlöf Pedersen was born in Kerteminde, Denmark, to Torben Pedersen (Danish) and Ylva Cederlöf (Finnish). The family moved to Vancouver, Canada, then to Toronto, and after that to New Jersey, United States, over a period of six years. He returned to Denmark in 1984, where he spent his childhood growing up in Kerteminde and Bryrup. He entered business school at Silkeborg Handelsskole, Silkeborg.
Pedersen graduated as a merchant student in 1998. He was drafted into the military later the same year, serving as a royal life guard at the royal palaces throughout Denmark.
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