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.
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.
Dude even excluding the human factors like politics, war, etc, the terrain would just be insanely rough and dangerous in basically every possible way
Bruh fuck no, I’m gonna die in South Sudan if I walk this.
That whole middle east area is getting fucked by Israel. They will target you for fun, regardless of skin color.
I would die in Cape town lol
That’s why I’m going backwards from Magadan to Cape Town! See you at the end losers!!! /S
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If the cannibal soldiers of the Congo don’t get you first
Wow I thought that was a joke. I just looked it up. Fucking hell.
‘The soldiers had red eyes, and they were singing and dancing. They slaughtered the priest, cut him to pieces, removed his heart and liver and cooked them. The rest of the group had to pay money or eat the human flesh to be allowed to leave. Another four men, three women and three children were killed.’ Among the dead was a pregnant woman who was gutted.
I got curious. The map/path is real.
BUT
The map begins and ends pretty arbitrarily. Both roads keep going before and beyond those points.
It assumes a ferry ride across the Suez canal (although there is seemingly a new-ish floating bridge that allows pedestrians to cross the canal, but it is only floated out at certain times (and maybe doesn’t exist anymore after a boat collision incident?))
That road, deadass, goes through five war zones. Hell no.
Sudan, Palestine, Ukraine, ____, and ____?
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
Adventure!
On the map it just crosses the red sea, how is this a continuous road?
Who do they think can walk this, Moses?
If you keep reading they introduce a new skill that just let’s you walk on top the water.
What, you can’t butterfly 26Km?
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?
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.
That’s an average over the 9 hours, so including breaks.
There is a white couple somewhere ready to tackle this.
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They’ll have two kids along the way too.
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!
Could always do the old school google walking route and take a kayak with you.
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
How do you cross the Meme Zar?
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.
You can see their shadows wandering off somewhere, they won’t make it home, but they really don’t care…
Could it be a Fastball reference…? Hmm…
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.
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.
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
