Longest solo kitesurfing journey

What to remember

Between Salvador and São Luís, two cities in Brazil, Britain's Louis Tapper covered 2,000 km by kite, alone, in 2010. No longer solo kite journey has been recorded.

Kiteboarding uses wind power and a large power kite to pull a rider across water, land, snow or sand. The rider wears a harness linked to the kite by traction lines, usually 4 or 5, and steers with a bar that acts as an accelerator depending on the wind. The sport borrows from paragliding, surfing, windsurfing, skateboarding, snowboarding and wakeboarding.

It went mainstream at the turn of the century and has freestyle, wave-riding and racing competitions.