Mike Hanson, a completely blind man travels the whole hike on his own. Seems unbelievable? Whats on his gear that makes his travel possible? when asked, gives us a very simple answer, ‘with the help of GPS’. Mike is extremely precautional that he is fully backpacked with GPRS program, Nokia N82 cell phone with one GPS. He also carries a blutooth GPS receiver. In the areas where there is no cellular phone signals, the Sat Nav programs will help him out while the GPRS programs works fine where there is proper cellular signals to provides him with information regarding the places of interest in the town.

To add more security to withstand loss of signal, loss of data, inaccurate data and dead batteries, he starts his journey with about two back ups systems. One of the noticeable feature is, Mike is about to make a 2174 mile trip which is been documented by a film maker, which will be later updated on face book page and blog.

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