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Full Name
  
Charalampos Bizas

Born
  
16 September 1954 (
1954-09-16
)
Arta, Epirus, Greece

Known for
  
Member of the Russian Geographical Society

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Babis Bizas (born Charalampos Bizas; 16 September 1954) is a travel writer, explorer and tour operator, and one of the most travelled persons in the world. He was born in Arta, Epirus, Greece. He participated in an expedition to the North Pole in May 1996. Almost 18 years later, in December 2014, he landed in the South Pole, becoming that way probably the only one Greek to have visited both Poles. By 2004 Bizas had visited all 194 sovereign countries of the world at that time. He is currently a member of the RGO (Russian Geographic Society) Русское географическое общество.

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Recognitions

"One of the most travelled men on earth".

Early life

He studied Political Sciences at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens and Slavonic languages in the Institute of Balkan Studies in Thessaloniki, where he learned Bulgarian and Russian. As a university student, he travelled as backpacker in Europe mostly hitchhiking and in 1977 he followed the stream of the young European travelers.

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