They say it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert at something. You’d have to walk this road about 2 and a half times just to become an expert at walking.
This is the road our grandparents used to walk to get to school if the stories they tell are true…
That’s what they meant by “uphill both ways”. Probably referring to having to cross the equator twice. This makes so much sense now.
I believe that goes through the Road of Bones in Siberia. From what I saw of Long Way Round (where Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman ride around the world on motorcycles), it’s not really a road much of the year. You wouldn’t want to walk it in the winter for obvious reasons. You also wouldn’t want to walk it in the warmer seasons, because the snow melts and floods the road.
It’s only a road in the sense that Google Maps marks it as one.
The documentary simply couldn’t continue on the planned route, and they hucked it over to Alaska early on. That was after putting up with some shit ass mud in and around Mongolia where they were dropping their bikes every 10 feet (and I am not exaggerating).
This would take over 187 days if you didn’t have to stop to sleep.
So I walked the Pacific Crest Trail in 106 days. That’s 2650mi/4264km so I walked about 25mi/40km per day.
So if I could maintain that pace (which is debatable because the PCT doesn’t go through different countries or warzones) this would take me 557 days, or about 18 months.
There is a white couple somewhere ready to tackle this.
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i didn t get it
They shop at REI and drive Subarus
Legit sounds like the Out of Eden Walk
https://www.npr.org/2013/01/10/168961210/what-do-you-pack-for-a-seven-year-trip
Fun fact: If you were able to cross the Bering Straight then the only thing that would keep this road from reaching Argentina would be the Darien Gap, a stretch of dense rainforest that separates Panama from Colombia. Unfortunately it’s one of the most inhospitable places on Earth!
if you could cross this impassable stretch of inhospitable wilderness then all you would need to do is cross this other impassable stretch of inhospitable wilderness!
I know what you meant but it was funny to me haha
Could always do the old school google walking route and take a kayak with you.
If immigrants can do it, then i can too
There are paths through.
That road, deadass, goes through five war zones. Hell no.
Sudan, Palestine, Ukraine, ____, and ____?
It goes near, but not through Ukraine.
I’m not asking ti remove items from the list, I’m asking to add them!
Syria and Gaza. Plus, it runs up along the Congo for quite a ways. That’s a route with some chest hair!
And then there’s the matter of whether to start in Cape Town or end in Cape Town
first one, then the other
Adventure!
If I can average 1.5km/hr with gear at 9hr/day this hike will take 4.5 years.
1.5km/h is super slow, no?
you have to consider that humans need rest sometimes
Experienced hikers average a greater speed than that even if you average it over 24 hours, so including sleeping time. Someone who can only walk 15km (that’s slightly more than averaging 1.5km/h for 9 hours) a day would never go on a journey like that, and even if they did, they’d be much faster after a few weeks. So there’s no situation where that calculation makes sense.
I think that was taken into account in their calculation and the 1.5km/h wasn’t an average including rest hours but only the speed while actually walking.
Yeah, it is. Average walking speed is like 4 - 5 km/h. 30km/day is a good marching speed. So, 2.4 years, assuming 30km a day, 6 days a week.
It’s probably on the low end. Gear weight, elevation change, rough terrain, and breaks will affect overall speed.
You aim for 50km a day when you’re backpacking (5 an hour, 10 hours a day)
But there are some pretty hot climates you are walking through and water will be scarce
Half that is more realistic. You have to sleep, rest, eat, buy supplies, get lost, etc. There will be bad terrain, mountains, bad weather, etc. as well.
You have to allow for the countries where you’ll be jailed for spying (because fuck you) which will lower your average.
I occasionally do long walks, but I know, when I do 30km that day, I need 2 days to recover and 3 months to be willing to do that shit again.
50km a day? Call an ambulance at 40km.
That’s an average over the 9 hours, so including breaks.
Post a link to your GoFundMe I’ll kick in a few bucks.
This is the farthest distance not the longest road
Case in point
But that’s not one road but multiple
Pretty sure the roads are discontinuous in the original post too
That ain’t the longest road you can squiggle down the alleys in the cities. The longest road probably has like 3/4 of the distance just moving down the roads in the cities in a zig zag pattern.
Worse. You would be walking in a circular pattern approaching the center whilst’d skipping every other intersection. Then you would proceed outwards on the roads you skipped initially. Do that in every city you encounter.
Or go on a roundabout for 20000km
“I live at 0024 Long as Fuck Road.”
“OMG, we live on the same street! I live on 999999 Long As Fuck Road.”
They’ll have two kids along the way too.
In the very loose meaning of “can walk”. This road crosses several dangerous areas for multiple reasons, from war and jungles, to deserts and tundra, not to mention all the visas you’d need.
Dude even excluding the human factors like politics, war, etc, the terrain would just be insanely rough and dangerous in basically every possible way
This route walks up the Nile and crosses the desert um Sudan. It then walks down remote roads in the DRC. It’s just so over the top insane.
There’s a guy on Youtube who crossed the entire length of Africa on foot. Got kidnapped twice IIRC.
Russ Cook.
i can think of much more exciting things to do if i had a death wish tbh
Same, and most of those things begin and end with copious amounts of drugs.
holy shit i was thinking exactly that…i wonder how many other people are
187 days, if you’re walking continuously 24/7
This route is for sleepwalkers only.
