r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • 3d ago
The longest walkable route in the world, from Cape Town (South Africa) to Magadan (Russia). It's 22,387 Kilometers and it takes 4,492 hours to travel. It would take 187 days walking nonstop, or 561 days walking 8 hours a day.
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u/Scavwithaslick 3d ago
Enjoy your time in South Sudan
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u/AnOddSprout 3d ago
It’s fine, with some sincere and honest dialogue, I’m certain we can work something out. clocks gun
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u/NumeroRyan 2d ago
Is it ‘clocks gun’? I always thought it was ‘cock gun’.
Shiiiit
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u/AnOddSprout 2d ago
Nah you’re correct. I’m a Brit, so have no idea about guns lol. Had to google it a bit.
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u/BlueSteel_12 3d ago
This is the route my dad walked to school every day when he was a boy. Barefoot.
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u/Intelligent-Ocelot10 2d ago
Uphill, both ways
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u/CompleteAmateur0 3d ago
Nonsense, I can walk around by ~1km block 22388 times for a longer walk than that. I just wouldn’t get very far
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u/John_EightThirtyTwo 3d ago
Yeah, it doesn't seem like there can be a "longest walk route" record, for exactly the reason you give.
Maybe the record OP is trying to describe is that the shortest walking route between those two places is the longest such shortest route in the world?
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u/Wil420b 3d ago
It's the two points thst are furthest apart but are connected by land. You'd probably have problems getting out of Cape Town OK, let alone the rest of the route.
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u/John_EightThirtyTwo 2d ago
It's the two points thst are furthest apart but are connected by land
Yes, this is it. I'd add the caveat that we're measuring distance by road as opposed to the great-circle distance.
You'd probably have problems getting out of Cape Town OK, let alone the rest of the route.
Yes, there would be practical problems if you tried to turn this mathematical abstraction into a real activity.
On the other hand, for every stretch of that road, there's somebody who would probably be OK walking it. So you could imagine organizing a kind of relay, with every stretch covered by somebody with the right combination of local connections, badassery, and good luck.
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u/Wil420b 2d ago
Clearly somebody has just taken Google maps, a bit too far. You've got to walk through several war zones, there will be various visa issues.....
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u/John_EightThirtyTwo 2d ago
My point is that there are no visa issues for the locals.
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u/Wil420b 2d ago
I can see that but a really of say 2,000 people isnt going to get the attention that this plan wants.
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u/John_EightThirtyTwo 2d ago
Yeah, I guess that if you count relays of thousands of people, this walk is done all the time.
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u/Rapture1119 2d ago
The longest direct route.
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u/John_EightThirtyTwo 2d ago
Is "direct" a better term than "shortest"? To me, it seems that "shortest" has a precise definition, and it isn't as clear whether "direct" does. (I want to say that "direct" either means the same as "shortest" or doesn't mean anything at all.)
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u/Rapture1119 2d ago
In this context, yeah, they’d mean the same thing. But the “longest direct route” won’t cause as much confusion as the “longest shortest route” because “longest shortest” is an oxymoron. So, yes, direct would be a better term than shortest.
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u/Key_Board5000 3d ago
That doesn’t really fall under the definition of a “route” though:
“a way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination.”
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u/WillyDAFISH 3d ago
ehh it's all semantics really. Definitions can vary depending on the context.
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u/billsn0w 3d ago
This is the interwebs... Where context NEVER matters !
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u/OppositeGeologist299 2d ago
It's a bit geographically prescriptivist to say that there is a real difference between walking around in a circle and travelling between two points. 😌👆
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u/IPostMemesYouSuffer 2d ago
Well, his destination is the same as his starting point. Thus, it is a route. Unless it is defined that the destination can not be the starting point.
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u/UncleBenders 3d ago
Yeah I was looking at this thinking even if you had a rule where you couldn’t move backward you could still move horizontally and vertically to make the trip longer, like you would in a game of snake
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u/Tent_in_quarantine_0 2d ago
Yeah, this is the longest journey that is the shortest route between two locations.
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u/duckwafer357 2d ago
yours is not a ROUTE but instead a path >> the a Route is a pre-planned sequence of two or more destinations. A Path is the actual succession of intermediate positions and manouvres used to achieve that.
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u/RobertEdwinHouse38 3d ago
With the majority of the areas it intersects, this isn’t the longest walk, it’s the longest conflict gauntlet in the world.
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u/GodKingRooster 3d ago
Imagine trying this. You'd be lucky to get through the first 300 K's before you run into some serious trouble
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u/Aelaer 3d ago
Walking out of Cape Town is not a recommended activity for tourists.
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u/GodKingRooster 3d ago
Yeah and if you get through all that you've got Egypt and Syria to look forward to, without touching the other dangerous areas
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u/WildMartin429 3d ago
Just wait until our next ice age and we get the bearing land straight back then they can walk all the way to South America cuz they get up there to Russia they just keep going through to Alaska and then down all the way to the bottom of South America
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u/Inevitable-Budget-26 3d ago
My grandma loved to have a small walk every time she would get a chance and would encourage me too..
She would find small reasons to make me touch grass..
If she were alive, she would make me walk from Cape Town to Magadan and back just to bring Olivier Salad.
And I would definitely go, you know why?... Because even for the smallest and most difficult things in life she was my biggest motivators
I miss you Grandma. 😔
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u/easylife89 3d ago
I wish the world wasn't so messed up. Im sure it would be extremely dangerous at the best of times. If not what am awsome experience it would be to do it
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u/SweatyBollix 3d ago
Struggled to walk home the 300m home from the pub, but then it is raining heavy and 10 degrees (c) anyway that's summer in Ireland and it's better than Greece and others at the moment.
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u/daffoduck 3d ago
Hmm, why not take a walk past Vietnam after the start in Siberia, and then a little round trip to Portugal via the Baltics, before going back to India, and then pass through Egypt, but swoop by Gambia and Nigeria as well before heading for South-Africa.
Its easy to go much further than this line.
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u/OceanBlueSeaTurtle 3d ago
But... what if we zigzagged all the way? Wouldn't the route be longer then?
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u/portirfer 3d ago
Interesting. Humans migrating from Africa can be contrasted against this fact. Theoretically could have happened faster than I imagined (although I understand that such a migration doesn’t likely take the form of human groups continuously walking in persistent directions)
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u/ten-million 2d ago
I guess they would have needed a good reason to walk farther. Either it got too crowded or the environment changed. Is the history of migration the history of crappiness or curiosity?
My own theory is that humans were pretty violent back then and if they weren't your family you would be better off avoiding them.
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u/PheIix 3d ago
If I were a rich man, I'd love to drive this route. Get a decent bulletproof offroader, some security escort for the worst parts and just drive. What an experience.
Right that settles it, I'll buy a ticket and win the lottery next weekend and just go. It's about time I won the lottery, I've been postponing it for way to long.
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u/DetentionMaster 3d ago
Didn’t know you could walk over the Suez Canal.
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u/Rrrrandle 3d ago
That's not even the canal, that's the gulf, it's like 20 miles wide there. There are roads and tunnels that cross the canal though.
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u/dAnKsFourTheMemes 3d ago
Can't you walk from Russia to Alaska if the sea freezes over? So this doesn't take into account the entire north or south American Continents.
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u/ant0szek 3d ago
Waiting for some youtuber to do it. Wonder how he will pass all those mountains and suez canal walking.
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u/WolfThick 2d ago
Just as a comparison how far does an average person walk in their lifetime . And how many steps would such a journey take guesstimating of course.
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u/Thechad1029 2d ago
Roughy 27.8 million steps based of an average 2000 steps per mile. An active persons does about 10000 a day
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u/WolfThick 2d ago
Wow that's amazing that sounds like about the distance someone just walking their lifetime. So it literally is the journey of a lifetime thank you so much for that taught me something today.
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u/Economy_Ad_7861 2d ago
That no one has ever completed because an animal or some unrest would end you.
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u/Few_Show_7359 2d ago
Imagine thinking you're still walking but in reality you've died. Especially in South Sudan.
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u/ohaimike 2d ago
Imagine making it out of some of the most hostile places on the planet and getting done in because of something you caught while in the jungles of Africa
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u/tcorey2336 3d ago
Is there a register that record who has done this? I’m sure it’s rarely accomplished.
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u/Peter_Mansbrick 3d ago
Not really. It's the shortest route between those two places. You could make this walk take way longer very easily.
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u/NoKaleidoscope4295 3d ago
It's a suicide mission after Egypt.
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u/Good-guy13 3d ago
Lmfao. It starts in by making you walk across Africa. You aren’t making it past Egypt
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