Sascha Grabow (born 15 January 1968) is a German

adventurer An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, or other extreme spo ...

and

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. > He visited every country in the world between 1987 and 2016, and walked through both the smaller and greater Congo. Sascha Grabow in August 2021 reached world provinces' pole position as defined by both SISO and CHAD. Sascha also leads two further international travel rankings, TEC and RDW.

Early life

Grabow was born in

Wolfsburg Wolfsburg (; Eastphalian: ''Wulfsborg'') is the fifth largest city in the German state of Lower Saxony, located on the river Aller. It lies about east of Hanover and west of Berlin. Wolfsburg is famous as the location of Volkswagen AG's hea ...

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

. His father taught English and history while his mother was an

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painter. He spent his childhood in

Waiblingen Waiblingen (; Swabian: ''Woeblinge'') is a town in the southwest of Germany, located in the center of the densely populated Stuttgart region, directly neighboring Stuttgart. It is the capital and largest city of the Rems-Murr district. , Waibli ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

, attended primary school in

Untergruppenbach Untergruppenbach () is a municipality near Heilbronn, a city in the northern half of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. There are a total of 7,600 inhabitants living in six villages that form the municipality of Untergruppenbach. Approxim ...

and high school at the Herzog-Christoph-Gymnasium in Beilstein. Grabow operates a website called greatestglobetrotters.com"GreatestGlobetrotters.com"
''World's Greatest Globetrotters.'' Retrieved 15 August 2015 which invites people to register their own travel histories.

References

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Interview with Sascha Grabow & other Extreme Travelers. Lead photo: Sascha Grabow
Spiegel Magazine International Edition, April 15, 2011

LonelyPlanet, May 15, 2015
Sascha Grabow, Germany’s Most Traveled Man
December 10, 2012
National Geographic Photographer Grabow
August 1, 2013
Around the World with Sascha
August 20, 2012
World Travel Map Grabow
December 21, 2018
Seven Summits Climbed
July 5, 2020 {{DEFAULTSORT:Grabow, Sascha German travel writers 1968 births Living people People from Wolfsburg Photographers from Lower Saxony German male non-fiction writers German tennis coaches 20th-century explorers 21st-century explorers German explorers Explorers of Africa German male tennis players

Early life

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