What's the Longest Walk-able Distance on Earth?

this video is made possible by curiosity stream watch unlimited documentaries for free for a month at curiosity stream 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 finish now many real-life lore viewers are probably also the type of person who watches and enjoys a lot of documentaries kind of like this I created real-life lore to make my own documentaries like this one available to watch for free so if you like good quality documentaries then you should absolutely be subscribed to curiosity stream and that's because they have a library of over 2400 documentaries and nonfiction titles that you can watch whenever wherever it's available on the web Apple TV Roku Android iOS and plenty of other platforms one series they have that I would highly recommend is 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Length: 8min 10sec (490 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 21 2019