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comm slash real-life lure what is the
longest walkable distance that you can
take on earth there's a few different
possibilities but for the purpose of
this video I need to make a few
clarifications first we want to find the
longest walkable distance between two
points on the Earth's surface and we
want to make sure that we're actually
walking the entire time and not taking
any shortcuts ferries or boats across
any water finally we need to be able to
visualize the walk in Google Maps and
have it be capable of feeding us
directions during the journey if Google
isn't able to calculate the journey then
it's disqualified so based on these
criteria the longest route by far that
you can calculate inside Google is a
trek from Cape Town South Africa to
Magadan Russia well more specifically
from this town nearby Cape Town which is
the southernmost point of the African
continent from my own personal research
into this nobody in history has ever
before managed to complete this
real-life achievement people have
already climbed the tallest mountain
sunked to the deepest part of the ocean
and even landed on the moon but nobody
has ever accomplished the longest
possible walk so what would it actually
be like for you if you decided to become
the first here is a brief overview of
both the horrible and amazing things
that you would end up experiencing and
dealing with as a brief overview though
the entire journey would span a distance
of 23,000 68 kilometers and feature
elevation changes of 123 thousand meters
and back down again which is basically
like you climbing up Mount Everest and
back down again 14 times if you enter
this route into Google yourself it'll
differ slightly from the one that I'm
showing you in this video because Google
annoyingly always tries to help you out
with ferries across the major geographic
barrier so you'll face along the way
like the Zambezi River at the Nile River
the Red Sea and Black Sea but I've
manually forced the route that doesn't
take any ferries because that isn't
walking and that is cheating so Google
estimates a time of completion for my
route from start at four thousand six
hundred and forty six hours or
194 days of continuous non-stop walking
however that's actually quite a
misleading estimate it's more reasonable
to assume that at best the average
person partaking in this journey would
probably be more likely to only be
capable of walking approximately 20
kilometers per day over an eight-hour
period each day if you can manage to
keep up that pace continuously every day
it would take you 1,150 three days or
over three full years to complete the
entire journey and that's assuming that
nothing goes wrong to you along the way
which I mean you look back at the map
and see some of the places where you'll
be going you probably aren't gonna get
that lucky starting off you have to walk
across the entirety of South Africa but
you avoid all of the really dangerous
cities before arriving in Zimbabwe which
is when things may start to get a little
sketchy the crime isn't particularly
high in Zimbabwe but they do have some
pretty wack creatures that you should
worry about like the Black Mamba a snake
that can both outrun you and kill you
within 20 minutes of a bite if you don't
get an anti-venom in time you have to
cross the entire country before you hop
over into Mozambique where you briefly
walk across before you enter over into
Malawi which has the ninth highest rate
of malaria in the world and you have to
walk a decently long way through the
wrong bite from the wrong mosquito at
any time that you're here can give you
the disease and knock you out of action
or possibly even kill you and it gets
worse when you cross through Zambia for
a hot minute because Zambia has the
sixth highest rate of malaria in the
world then you cross back into Malawi
again for another hot minute before you
cross the border into Tanzania which you
also have to hike all the way across
until you find yourself entering into
the malaria capital of the world
Uganda if you know the way through
Uganda isn't particularly dangerous save
for having the highest recorded cases of
malaria in the world however you do have
to cross through Murchison Falls
National Park which does have things
like hippos gorillas and even more black
mambas quite possibly the sketchiest
part of your trip begins though when you
cross the border into South Sudan which
oh boy is considered the third most
dangerous country on the entire planet
to be in ahead of even other places like
Iraq or you
armed conflict between opposing
political and ethnic groups is ongoing
across the country while car jackings
shootings ambushes assaults robberies
and kidnappings are pretty common
occurrences even US government employees
here have very strict curfews and travel
and armored transport carriers for their
own safety you'll definitely have a
difficult time walking through here
before arriving into regular Sudan where
you have to journey across the Sahara
and scorching temperatures of up to 47
degrees Celsius in the summer time
before you arrived here at Wadi Halfa
right before Egypt
there isn't a single road to connect
Sudan with Egypt which seems like pretty
poor planning on their part so Google
wants you to take a ferry across Lake
Nasser to Aswan in Egypt but that is
breaking our rules so you're gonna have
to just Huff it across the empty Sahara
without a road before arriving into
Aswan yourself that's pretty dangerous
and you'll probably die but I mean you
probably have died a dozen times before
this anyway so then you walk across
basically the entirety of Egypt across
the Suez Canal bridge and walk all the
way across the Suez to Jordan while
briefly hopping through Israel walking
through Jordan shouldn't be too bad but
things hop right back into sketch town
when you enter into Syria the brutal
civil war that has claimed at least half
a million lives in the country is still
ongoing and Syria is considered to be
the second most dangerous country in the
entire world only behind Afghanistan so
yeah good luck walking through all of
that this entire thing is starting to
seem like suicide but with extra steps
but things start getting back to normal
when you cross through Turkey then
Georgia and finally into Russia which is
by far the longest part of your journey
you'll have to walk across practically
the entire country and walk deep through
Siberia which is so huge you're
guaranteed to be there during the winter
at some point and if you survived
everything up to here it would sure be a
shame to just freeze to death near
somewhere like your cuts where the
average January temperature is negative
39 degrees Celsius the road from here to
Magadan is known as the road of bones
after the thousands of gulag labourers
who died constructing it under Stalin
and whose bodies were simply mixed in
with
fabric of the road that you're walking
across so if you somehow miraculously
survived all of this and you cross this
final obstacle into magadhan
congratulations because you've just done
something that nobody else in human
history has ever done before you've
completed the longest possible walk
between two points on the Earth's
surface and it's probably only taken you
at least three years of your life to
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