Some Press Coverage

He is a ‘Graf’ from ancient nobility, but everyone calls him Bärli : Christoph von Toggenburg, 26, has the Swiss and Austrian nationality and regards himself as a ‘world-citizen’ and ‘world-improver’.
Schweizer Illustrierte, Switzerland, 11.11.2002

His ancestors served the Austrian Emperor and he collects money for leprosy – sufferers: Christoph Graf von Toggenburg.
Blick/Switzerland, 31.10.01

He made it. The knight with his bike did survive all dangers but most of all himself.
He has experienced what it means to go to the limits and not give up. He knows how life feels when death is just a breath away.
 Krone Bunt/Austria, 14.7.02

This Swiss does not stop to cycle for leprosy-sufferers.
La Liberté, Switzerland, 3.4.2002

He lives and follows a simple philosophy: An individual can change the world if he really wants and if he doesn’t fear. .../...
Doesn’t this seem to be a bit special to help others. Isn’t it a bit extreme to cycle across seven countries, all alone, through deserts and mountains, with temperatures between minus 20 and plus 30 degrees Celsius? Certainly. But it is Christoph von Toggenburg’s way to show that someone cares for the downtrodden.
The Times of India/India, 8.1.2002

YOU CAN do a lot of things to help people. But does it not seem that riding a bicycle all alone across seven countries, striding deserts and mountain in temperatures between 40 Deg C and -20 Deg C a lot of effort? You bet it is. That, however, is the way Christoph Von Toggenburg likes to do it.
The Hindu. Online edition of India's National Newspaper. 18.12.2001

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