Chinese performance artist He Yunchang has been using his body as the main prop in his art pieces. His performances are often hard on endurance, and he has to go to the extremes to showcase his might.
On 23 September 2006, he collected a beach rock that was the size of a shoe at the Beach of Boulmer, located at the Northumberland Coast of England. The piece weighed about 3.6 kilograms. He then walked with the boulder at hand and sometimes ran with it around the perimeter of Great Britain.
Before departing on the trip, He researched the route thoroughly and finally decided to compress the journey to a 16-weeks program. It took He Yunchang 112 days to go round and return to the starting point where he put the piece of rock in the exact position that he had picked it from.
He had covered about 3500 kilometers on foot.
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