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

I've noticed a slight error in my research that went into this video. The route that I presented in this video still features a ferry across the Aldan River in Russia! So if you're gonna do it idk, maybe just like swim across it you know? It's probably safer than walking through some of the other countries. Anyway, if you wanna watch documentaries that don't feature goofy mistakes head over to CuriosityStream and watch everything for free for 31 days: www.curiositystream.com/reallifelore

- What have you done the past three years? *Walked* - Oh cool what else? *Nothing I just walked*

"babe come over" "no, you live in Magadan Russia, and i live in L'Agulhas South Africa" "my parents aren't home"

Alas, someone has finally mapped out my grandpas trek to school

“Ima take a walk!” 6 years later… “I’m back!”

I love imagining how your search history is now 'stock footage of people walking'

*”You’ll probably die but you’ve probably died 12 times anyway”* -Real Life Lore 2019

So someone named George Meegan holds the world record for longest walk and actually walked from Tierra Del Fuego to the northernmost point in Alaska in about 2,452 days, which covered about 19,019 miles.

"If you know the way through Uganda..." I see what you did there

Mom: *"You spend so much time on the phone, let's go for a walk"* The walk:

The longest walkable distance is from my bed to the unclosed door

"Everything is walking distance if you have the time." - Steven Wright, comic legend

As someone who loves hiking/backpacking.... I kinda wanna do this ;) It could be reworked into a FEASIBLE route I think, avoiding war zones at least. Some problems can be mitigated, but not eliminated. Malaria and black mambas.... well... if you are going to travers Africa on foot, there is no way around that. But you _can_ avoid South Sudan. There is just zero realistic way you can walk across that nation safely. You have to divert around. There is a slightly longer Zambia to Tanzania to Kenya to Ethiopia route that should be a fair bit safer (without doing any real research on that route, I could be VERY wrong). The best thing you can do to mitigate risk from wildlife and mosquitos at this point? Hire good local guides for each leg of the trip. Each guide that knows the area hands you off to the next. Trust the local experts to keep you from picking a fight with a Rhino. So if you stay out of warzones and mitigate wildlife risk, this starts to look 'doable'. I also think to make it feasible you have to loosen rules on ferries. Ferry or deadly hike on foot across Sahara in Egypt? I think to be feasible you take the ferry the shortest distance possible to get you back on a safe hiking route. Syria is.... the serious problem. No real route around it. Iraq? Better, but still not safe to hike. Iran? They arrested western backpackers not long ago. So my proposal? Take a boat from Lebanon to Turkey..... and make up for it with a longer land route around the Black Sea.... go WEST around it, through Istanbul, Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine, then into Russia and largely the same route you had...... But you can't avoid winter in Siberia.... so another concession is needed. I propose for the Siberian leg that a pack animal be allowed. You are still walking, but you will need a more serious shelter and stove to survive Siberia on foot. This modded route comes out to 25,228km and 5019 hrs. (3.45 years using the 20km per day estimate) Yes, some of it was 'cheating' with a ferry, but the longer route more than makes up for any walking 'saved' by taking a boat. And I cheat again by using a pack animal in Siberia... but you need a serious tent, wood stove etc to survive out there, you can walk it, but not with all the gear you need on your back. I think these fairly small tweaks make this hike vaguely possible. Then, well, if we are bending rules on boats.... charter a ship from Magadan to Anchorage.... and start heading South until you get to Tierra del Fuego.... although this route take you through the most dangerous and fearsome nation of all..... Canada ;)

That one friend we all have: *"It's not even that far. Let's walk"*

I live in Cape Town. I guess I should start walking.

Theoretically, if you plan ahead and with perfect weather conditions, you could continue your trip (from Siberia to Alaska) by walking over solid ice in winter. From there, you could walk all the way to the southern tip of South America. 😁

Interestingly enough, you could probably go much further than this if you took google maps out of the equation and made it so that you could walk across ice. If you were to pack enough equipment and had enough help, one could theoretically walk past Magadon, all the way to the eastern most point of Russia, and if you arrived during the height of winter, there’s a chance that the Bearing Straight could freeze over and you could walk all the way to Alaska, and then hypothetically be able to walk all the way down to Punta Arenes in Chile. (You would also have to cross the Darian Gap in Panama, but many people have done it before)

Actual representation of my grandparents walking to school (1954 colorized)

Longest walkable distance for me personally is from my bed to my computer

Fun fact: if someone started this journey the day this video was uploaded, and finished in RLL's aproximate time without any problems, he would not be done yet

I’ve seen almost all of your videos and I can say this is one of my favorites

”This entire thing is starting to seem like suicide with extra steps” I see what you did there

My dad: I'm gonna go take a quick walk The walk:

i don’t know why but calling Sudan “Regular Sudan” 4:45 made me laugh harder than i should’ve

Amazing job! I need more of this content!!

I mean the guy walking in a straight line across Wales is pretty impressive.

It's all those damn video games in South Sudan...

Funny to think about the fact that IF a person decided to go this path when this video came out, they would have completed it around now, considering they survive, did not get long term sick or met any other huge obsticle.

Thank you for this video, now I am prepared to walk this journey!

Imagine finishing that walk only to discover someone built a bridge to Alaska

Forget Area 51, we meeting up at Cape Town on September 20

Longest route idea: start in Cape Town, South Africa and hug the western coast of Africa till Morocco where you cross the strait of Gibraltar into Europe. Walk across Europe then into Turkey. From there, either go into Azerbaijan then straight through Russia or go through all of the middle east (once again along the coast line of the nearest body of water), walk along the Indian ocean coast line, through China then into Russia. From Russia, cross the bearing straight into north America, walk through Alaska, Canada,The US and Mexico then cross the Panama Canal. Get through the Amazon rainforest and end the walk in Terria de Fuego in Chile

"I've survived the longest walkable journey" "We're you killed?" "Sadly yes. *But I lived!"*

Imagine surviving the entire walk, and then your plane crashes on the way home.

I really enjoyed this humorous and entertaining piece!

5:17 "That's pretty dangerous and you'll probably die but I mean you've probably already died a dozen times before this anyway" That made me laugh

Students: *run 7 times around the gym and stop cuz they are tired* What the Gym teacher expects the students to run:

Imagine having to walk back because you forgot something at home.

It's sad that the world's longest walking distance is actually super dangerous because it goes through several war zones full of people who won't hesitate to kill a foreign civilian. Although the malaria and mamba risk are close seconds.

i love how he said "if you know de way through" when talking about uganda

So am I the only one who low-key want's to do this for the bragging rights but knows I'll probably die by the 3rd day.

3:56 "...uganda. If you know the way through..." you did this on purpose xD

I don’t know about this. The walk to my fridge seems longer when I have just sat down

I done the math and calculated that if you ran at 5.84 mph (which google says is the average run speed of an adult male) it would take 102 days of straight running to make this journey and you would burn around 2 million calories not including the uphill and downhill areas for extra strain. Imagine how your legs would feel if you could feel them

My grandparents: you’re so lazy. when I was small, and used to go to school it was like a 7 thousand km walk.

My dad: im gonna get milk Where the store is:

Me: I dont want to walk the dog. Mum: It'll only be a short walk! The walk:

This is WAY more entertaining than I expected it to be. Hahaha!

::plugs locations into Google Maps:: ⚠️This route includes a ferry. ⚠️This route has tolls. ⚠️This route crosses through multiple countries. ⚠️Your destination is in a different time zone. Me: “Ugh. I hate time zone changes.”

“Regular Sudan” -RealLifeLore

So... Does anyone want to do this world walk with me? It'll be from L'Agulhas, South Africa to the Southernmost tip of South America in Argentina near the southernmost town of Ushuaia. I'm quite confident that this walk could take about 5 years if I or we can walk at a certain comfortable pace, but be prepared to walk long distances within a day to complete such challenge. There will be plenty of obstacles that'll come our way regarding with border crossings, type of climate and terrain, wild animals, bad people, weather, and some others. The most challenging of all would have to go to the Easternmost part of Siberia (Lots of rivers and mountainous terrain, and no roads), and then the Bering Strait (Which freezes some parts of the year, and will have to cross it to Alaska). Since that we're crossing the Bering Strait from Russia to the US, we're gonna have to go around the Big Diomede island (Russia) and onto Little Diomede island (US) and the time will change drastically when crossed. Be sure to have a legal passport with you. Then we'll have to travel through the Alaskan terrain until upon arriving in Fairbanks to where there's a road to walk alongside on. Other obstacles would be the Darien Gap in Panama and Colombia as there are no roads through this dense jungle that stretches up around 90 miles. And then there's a large river in a marsh area, so unless there's a bridge, we'll need to go around it, and it's a long path around. And then the Atacama desert, then we arrive at the destination at the southern tip! I'd say really exercise your walking for around 2.5-3 hours a day or more, just to prepare, or go out for a hike with a bag full of stuff. I or we'll be walking for the majority of the day, and I'm planning on actually doing this within probably a few years or more. If no one wants to come, then I guess I'll travel alone, take pictures, vlog my journey, and could have many opportunities that'll come with it. Let's hope I or we survive this. 😁 And I've done my research on Google Earth, Google Maps, and some articles. The furthest a person walked on foot was 19,019 miles from the Southernmost tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska in 2,425 days by George Meegan. So surely this'll beat his record! Feel free to comment below! Oh and don't say that I can't do it, because it can be done.

So this is the fabled walk my father said he was going on 11 years ago.

"This just seems like suicide with extra steps." Extra steps you say?

"Nobody has EVER attempted this incredible challenge!" * Grandpa who walked to school as a kid quietly laughs in corner *

3 years is actually such a short amount of time compared to how long you would think it'd take. when you put it into that perspective, it makes it clear how humanity spread so far so quickly across the planet after various groups migrated out of africa

2:15 ok luv, I’m just going for a stroll! 😂

"You just need to walk through Syria" no biggie.

Gym Teacher: As a warm up we will take a quick jog around the gym The Athletic Kid meanwhile:

ancient humans who traveled across africa to europe to asia: ._.

"You'll probably die but I mean you must have died dozens of times". I died laughing here lol

1:08 “but no one has ever accomplished the longest possible walk” MrBeast: *this looks like a job for me*

No one: My parents: *we had to walk this long to get to school back then*

Thanks!

List of new major sketch zones that have opened up since the video's release: Sudan: currently embroiled in a large civil war Israel: Do I even need to explain? Georgia: Increasing pressure from Russia and civil disruption among its own people

The longest distance must be between your house and the bus stop.

This video weirdly gives me the motivation to keep walking instead of using any kind of transportation (bus, car, bicycle) to commute from home to work/store, or just simply new distance challenge everyday.

I have an honest question. There's clearly a lot of land east of where you finish, why not go to the rest of the way?

Thanks for zooming in on the black mamba. My ophidiophobia keeps me alive

My name is Forest Gump and now I'm being held hostage in South Sudan suffering from malaria and being forced to eat my toenails to survive. If only I took a plane across Africa...

The walk should be to Pyongyang

when residence in Madagan: mom I'm going for a walk Mom: and when will you come? Son: in about 3 years 😁

Title: What’s the longest walkable distance on Earth. 3.3 Million People: Well well well, let’s find out.

Just wait people will start speed running this.

You can actually walk further east through Russia its just that there are no roads. Also, the Bering Strait freezes in winter and so you could theoretically cross from Russia to the USA (2 guys crossed in 2006). That allows you to continue your journey all the way through to Cape Froward in Chile, the southernmost point in South America mainland. Although you would have to contend with the Darian Gap, an extremely dangerous patch of the rainforest with no roads and dense rainforest where foreigners have been killed in the past. But then again you would probably be dead long before you reach it. The estimated trip according to google maps would be 46,124km and at 20km a day this 'walk' would take you about 6 years and 4 months

“So what would it be like for you if you decided to do it first?” Me who cant physically walk: hmmm yea good question.. i think it would be painful

Great video

I like how it's South-Sudan and "regular" Sudan

5:54 *”Like suicide, but with extra steps”* I see what you did there

I walked from Maine to San Diego once and it sucked. Couldn't even imagine this walk

123 km elevation change up and back down again is actually surprisingly low considering the length of the walk. It's roughly an average gradient of 1%. in my country it's hard to find such an even path, although we have rather flat areas too. But probably not as flat as most deserts.

We all have that one friend that says “it’s not a long walk”

Cape Town, South Africa to Punta Arenas, Chile; The Bering strait freezes

Couldn’t you increase the walk’s distance by walking around the edge of Africa instead of going in a (roughly) straight line out of the continent?

0:48 “nearby”. Cape Town is 2 hours and 45 minutes from L’Agulhas.

Now do longest drivable distance by a Toyota Corolla

"Suicide with extra steps" Heh nice pun

I want to say I started this journey a couple months after the release of this video. I'm currently in Tanzania. I'm walking with a inflatable paddle board to cross small bodies of water and a 90 liters backpack full of equipaments - including tents, sleeping bag, clothes etc.. I'm also carrying a satellite emergency beacon, which I've used twice so far, but nothing too serious. Locals have been helping me hugely with food and acommodation, especially in Mozambique where they speak my language. I'm carrying enough water purifications tablets for hundreds of liters of water + dozens of sawyer filters. I took all the preventions on malaria, with antimalarial drugs and it's been working thus far. There were sector where I cheated and took the car - especially heavily forested areas. Didn't see a black mamba in my trip so far and I hope I wont be seeing one. August 11, 2021. Currently in the city of Mbeya.

Legend has it....Some Mexican dude already made that walk years ago looking for work

Idea : 1 : Buy a boat 2 : Buy a Treadmill 3 : Let somebody operate the boat so that you travel across the world while you walk on the treadmill. *This is Big Brain Time.*

Really wanted stock footage of someone running away from a swarm of mosquitos

This whole trip would be achievable without human conflict.

Not even Crocodile Dundee is going on THAT walkabout!

This is a challange for GeoWizard lol.

Can you make a 'Longest Actually Survivable Walk, which doesn't consider dying the second you get out of your house'?

5:17 I love the way he says it

“Lemmie just go out for a short walk-”

1:09 why is she walking in the water when there’s a dry path right next to her 😂😂

As a Canadian I think I can survive the -40C but on average we only get +27C warm so the deserts might be tough for me. Now do one for the longest mostly safe walk someone can do.

this was the walk my grandparents had to take to get to school

Dad: "son, i'm going for a short walk, i will be right back." Dad: