So if you've been on youtube for a while you may have seen these videos by hai and real life 4
about the furthest distances you can walk on earth and while these channels and their
videos are great i'm sad to say they're dead wrong they even came up with different answers
for the longest route and still managed to both be wrong since attacking bigger craters
might get me some clout let's talk about the real longest distance you can walk on earth
if you just take a look at a map and try to eyeball the furthest distance you could walk
you'd probably pick two opposite corners of this big blob of land either from the edge of europe
or asia all the way to the edge of komchatka from sagras a small town located on the very
southwestern tip of portugal all the way to the port city of magadan in eastern russia that would
be just over 9 000 kilometers as the crow flies unfortunately you're not a crowd and you'd have to
actually walk more than 14 000 kilometers through eight countries and ascending and descending
more than 74 000 meters that's the equivalent of walking up mount everest and all the way back down
and then doing that eight more times this trip would take almost 3 000 hours of continuous
walking meaning it would probably take at least three years to walk all at once assuming you
weren't arrested killed or froze to death along the way unfortunately the other obvious route
is even longer coming in at just under 16 000 kilometers direct or more than 22 000 kilometers
on foot going through an extra 30 thousand meters of elevation the trip would take about 50 percent
longer taking you through 14 countries including some of the most dangerous countries in the world
and sneaking across several borders in the middle east now this is the route that relay floor comes
up with and sure it's the longest distance you can walk 100 of the time and if google maps is
literally your only source but this isn't the longest distance you can walk not by a long shot
at this point you've already walked across two continents so why not just keep going why stop
by russia and why not just keep going into the americas now you know that all you geography nerds
might be thinking what about this body of water are we supposed to just walk right across it well
yes you are the bearing straight that cuts between the two world superpowers tucked into the
very edges of maps is only 80 kilometers long and that's nothing for the ultra athletes considering
this route keep in mind there are races like the go big race where contestants only have 96 hours
to complete a 400 kilometer journey encircling the main island of hawaii but those 400 kilometers are
across solid ground so what about this well average temperatures across the bering strait
routinely reach negative 30 degrees celsius cold enough for even ocean water to freeze
but strong ocean currents flowing north through the strait typically prevent it from freezing over
but every so often if conditions line up just right it will freeze over two notable successful
crossings have happened in the last two decades the first was in 1998 when a russian father
and his son tried to walk across the strait from russia to alaska as the ice started to crack they
became marooned on a floating piece of ice for three days before it eventually drifted across the
strait and the men although non-ideally managed to cross the strait on foot another crossing
that went slightly better to plan was in 2006 when english adventurers carl bushby and dimitri keffer
succeeded in doing the reverse route walking from alaska straight across to russia where
they were immediately detained by russian authorities for entering the country illegally
factoring in this crossing you could extend the longest route an additional 17 000 kilometers
walking through alaska canada down to central america taking the walkway over the panama canal
and going through the amazon to get to the southern tip of south america
there are some tricky parts to this route like walking along the train's alaska highway in
freezing conditions although by this point you've already crossed the russian tundra so maybe this
part isn't actually so bad plus you can always try to do it in the summer from there it's pretty much
smooth sailing all the way down to panama in fact a lot of people have walked from all across the us
all the way down to panama just for fun and refugees have done the same route in reverse
at this point you'd meet one of the toughest obstacles of the entire journey despite having
already walked thirty thousand kilometers this hundred kilometer stretch between panama and
colombia will be one of the most difficult the panama columbia border is one of only half a dozen
borders around the world that don't share a road between them keep in mind for almost the entirety
of this journey we've just been walking along major roadways there's a handful of geopolitical
reasons for this but the end result is that this crossing will be difficult cutting between uvisa
and panama and crepe in colombia lies the darian gap a remote roadless swath of jungle
on the border of panama and colombia filled with anacondas poisonous frogs black caimans
and plenty and plenty of drug smugglers it is columbia after all if you manage to get
through the pass it's a straight shot all the way down the continent to the tip of south america
one journey that took almost 40 000 kilometers now this route might seem impossible after all
it's really more of a thought experiment but carl buzzme and dimitri keffer the two men that crossed
the bering strait are actually trying to complete a similar route trying to circumnavigate the world
on foot and they've already completed about 20 of it this route is so ridiculous google maps won't
even display walking along the alaska highway as a walkable option despite it doing the same for
similar roads in russia so yeah if you're trying to get in shape consider trying out this route
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