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After 439 days of paddling and pedaling, a Swedish adventure athlete pulled into Lake Union on Friday and became the first person to circumnavigate 32 states by bicycle and kayak.

When Renata Chlumska kayaked out of Seattle on July 4, 2005, she expected the "Around America Adventure" would take her 480 days, said her friend Ryan Hayter.

Around America, by land and by sea | The Seattle Times

Chlumska, 32, is a kayaker, scuba diver and mountaineer.

"It's been a trip I planned almost six years now," Chlumska said. "It a goal I felt I couldn't leave undone."

Traversing the exterior of the United States was the goal for Chlumska and her late-fiancé, Goran Kropp.

Kropp, a Swedish adventurer who died in a Grant County rock-climbing accident in 2002, had planned to make the trip with her.

An elite climber, skier and cyclist, Kropp was most famous for a 1996 adventure where he rode a bicycle 7,440 miles from his home in Sweden to Kathmandu in Nepal. He then climbed Mount Everest.

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