In 2002, the first Winter Olympics of the 21st century will be held at Salt Lake City, USA
After the Nagano Olympics and Paralympics, Mr. Tasuku Tsukada, the mayor of Nagano City, Japan - host city of the last Winter Olympic games of the 20th century - sent a message for world awareness to the next host city, Salt Lake City, asking to protect the earth's environment.
The NASL International Environmental Mission, organized by Japanese and other nation's civil volunteer groups will carry this message to Salt Lake City.
On March 1998, the Olympics and Paralympics ended. The "ambassadors of environment" appointed by NASL left Nagano City to give the message to the mayor of Salt Lake City. They only use zero emission vehicles which is bicycle, sailing ship, carriage and electric vehicle on this travel. They arrived in San Francisco on Aug. 1999. The last travel from west coast to Salt Lake City through the Nevada desert will start on jury 2000. They go on the trip by bicycle at a distance of 1600km !!. The Japan Electric Vehicle Club Matsumoto (JEVCM) supported them.
We sent our 2EV to USA on May 2000. in the middle of July, we joined NASL bicycle runners in Nevada and the travel by human and electric power started. In the desert, natural environment was very hard. By the limits of power of human and capacity of batteries, We advanced 100km maximum in a day. Photo was the desert in Nevada.
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