No planes and no 'spoilers.' How one man trekked from Egypt to Japan without flying

Omar Nok is at the finish line of a 28,000-mile zig-zag route that began in February. Here's how he approached the adventure, without setting foot on a plane.

No planes and no 'spoilers.' How one man trekked from Egypt to Japan without flying
Omar Nok took a 46-hour train ride across Kazakhstan in a platzkart — a Soviet-era sleeping carriage that lacks the luxury of privacy between beds — to get from the western part of the country to its capital, Astana.

Omar Nok is at the finish line of a 28,000-mile zig-zag route that began in February. Here's how he approached the adventure, without setting foot on a plane.