The journey is made up of eight legs, with sailors able to join for one of these, or the full circumnavigation.

CNN: November 8, 2012 -- Updated 1414 GMT (2214 HKT)

It takes seven or eight hours and strong legs to hike the whole crossing, past ice-blue crater lakes, over snow-covered ridges and through windswept mountain deserts, where totara trees cling to the soft black volcanic sand.

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Some have six legs, some eight, but none of them are paying for the room.

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In 2008, Eight Belles snapped both front legs in the Kentucky Derby and was euthanized in front of a TV audience of millions.

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Another miner, Mohan Soren, has an eight-year-old daughter whose legs became paralyzed three months after she was born.

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Moroccan striker Chamakh held his position to coolly side-foot the ball through the legs of Terrell Forbes from eight yards out, right into the corner of the net, for his first goal since the end of November.

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It was only delaying the inevitable, and Anelka broke the deadlock eight minutes before the interval when he cut inside and scored via the legs of Lonergan, who appeared to be unsighted.

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