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Former British paratrooper finishes years-long walk of the UK coastline

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Ex-paratrooper completes six-year-long coastline charity walk

This is the moment a former paratrooper celebrates the end of a 19,000-mile walk of the UK coastline.

The UK coastline walk raised £500,000 for SSAFA, the Armed Forced charity.

Chris Lewis began the walk in 2017, taking him a whopping six years to complete.

In the video, we see Chris followed by hundreds of supporters as he completed the final mile of his epic walk which began on Llangennith beach on the Gower Peninsula, near his home city of Swansea, South Wales.

Setting off from a beach with just £10 in his pocket and a few days of supplies, he explains he was motivated to do this due to suffering from anxiety and depression.

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