Homeless former paratrooper completes one year of hiking British coast

Welsh man Chris Lewis hopes to raise £100,000 for the armed forces charity Ssafa on his trek

A former British paratrooper who set off on a mission to walk around the coast of the UK with just £10 in his pocket and a vague plan (to keep the sea to his left) has completed a year of hiking and estimates he is around a third of the way through his journey.

Chris Lewis, from Swansea in south Wales, decided to walk around the UK coastline after leaving the Parachute regiment and finding himself homeless and struggling to cope on ‘civvy street’. He slept on the street and in cars before being helped by the armed forces charity, Ssafa, but when he faced homelessness again decided to head off.

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