Paul Harris

Paul Harris, AKA The Warrior Walker, is a former Royal Marine who turned his life around by walking the UK’s coastal paths in their entirety. In doing a second lap, it’s believed he is the first person to have walked around the map twice, covering 20,000 kilometres — a distance equivalent to trekking from London to Sydney. In doing so, he raised over £10,000 for MIND, Great North Air Ambulance, Samaritans and Doctors Without Borders. After completing his walk, Paul told the BBC: ‘I basically cried my way around the UK on the first lap because people were putting me up and it was just like therapy. The kindness of strangers has changed my life. I thought, I can’t really pay it forward because I haven’t got any money, so I thought I’d raise money for charity.’ He currently works in a pub in Plymouth. The path remains just outside his door.