A British adventurer said he plans to finish his round-the-world human powered expedition where it started 13 years ago - in London.
Jason Lewis, 38, from Bridport, Dorset, made the announcement as he mountain-biked north of Damascus in Syria, on his way back to the UK.
He has so far completed more than 37,000 miles (60,000km).
He will cross Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Austria and Germany to Belgium before returning to London in October.
Mr Lewis is still using the 15-year-old steel-frame bicycle on which he started the expedition at Greenwich in London in 1994.
He has since spent 13 years travelling 37,000 miles using his mountain-bike, a pedal boat, rollerblades and kayak as well as and swimming and walking.
He will make the channel crossing onboard his £26,000 26ft (8m) Exeter-built pedal boat Moksha, which first made the crossing at the start of the expedition.
Mr Lewis is expected to arrive at Greenwich Rowing Club on the morning of 6 October.
He said Moksha has also crossed the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Timor Sea and part of the Indian Ocean and has, in the process, "suffered many near-fatal accidents".
"And yet she has faithfully delivered every crew member who has ridden in her safely to the other side of every piece of water she has been asked to cross," Mr Lewis said.
"Moksha is as much a part of the team as any of us, and you never leave a team member behind."
The expedition has so far raised more than 63,000 US dollars (£31,500) for small-scale charitable causes along the way, such as orphanages and hospices for adults and children living with HIV and Aids.
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