Twitchhiker fails to reach Campbell Island

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A British journalist, dubbed the “Twitchhiker”, was not able to realize his goal of reaching Campbell Island, situated in the sub-Antarctic region south of New Zealand, within 30 days of his departure from the UK. One of the requirements he imposed on his travels was to accept only the generosity of fellow users of the social networking website, Twitter.

It was Paul Smith’s objective to reach the island thousands of miles away from his Newcastle home, but his journey ended at Stewart Island, also off the New Zealand coast.

During his travels, he accepted offers of travel assistance and accommodation from other users of the Twitter micro-blogging site – exclusively.

In one of his latest Twitchhiker blogs, however, he noted that forward motion on his travels began to wane when he reached New Zealand’s South Island. Before that point, he said that fellow Twitterers had provided “ceaseless support”.

Smith wrote that the biggest obstacle he faced was the lack of mobile phone coverage or Internet access in some parts of New Zealand.

”On a land mass the size of England and Wales, with just one 50th of the population, a cast-iron communications infrastructure simply isn’t necessary. Where I did find Internet access, it was often decrepit to the point of useless.”

He went on to say: “So I wasn’t able to push my message as hard as I wanted to in the final days of the project.”

Thanks to www.independent.co.uk for the above quotes, for more information on this article please visit their website.

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