Does anyone else think the story of the guy who walked around the world in 27 years is bullshit?

[KostasKouvalis]

It was a British chap who started in 1998 in Patagonia and crossed the Berring Sea and Siberia and swam across the Caspian Sea and just a couple days ago arrived back in the UK. BUT, there are several problems with this claim.

One, there's not much documentation of his trek and no one heard of this guy until a few months ago

Secondly, Russia isn't the sort of country you can just casually walk through. Assuming he did, one person said he had to keep flying back to the UK to renew his Russian visa and pick back up where he left off. So that instantly invalidates the media's claims that the walk was continuous, he used no technology to get around and said he wasn"t coming home until he finished.

He also allegedly swam the entire Caspian Sea, sleeping and resting on a support vessel.

Thirdly, that route would take a few years, but not THAT long, but like it allegedly wasn't contious.

Fourthly, how was he financing all this if he was jobless?

Fiftly, he claimed he only met kind people.

Sixthly, there was COVID

Seventhly, I recently saw some stuff about the world's longest walkable route that no one has ever completed due to geo-political issues, ie "traveling through restricted areas of Russia."

So yeah, I call bullshit.

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8 mo

If he DID, he was most ceratainly doing it in intervals

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8 mo

His route and dates...
explorersweb.com/.../...reonrgj-e1745831153663.jpg

Highy sus

[purplepoppy]

If most people did that they'd want to document as much proof as possible to stop questions like this.

Long as you don't draw attention to yourself you can live virtually anywhere so it's plausible he moved through dodgy countries. The secret is to look homeless. It's not worth arresting you but it is worth encouraging you to move on.

[KostasKouvalis]

So you believe he did it?

[purplepoppy]

No. I think it's possible but he's a bullshitter.

[Anonymous]

Walking only 6 hours per day you could walk around the world in 4 years. For him to have taken 27 years he would have had to walk less than 1 hour per day, a tremendous waste of time.

[KostasKouvalis]

EXACTLY! I think Google Maps said the longest walkable route from Cape Town to eastern Russia could be walked in just half a year with NONSTOP walking, about a year and a half, walking 8 hours a day. His route was a bit more complicated. I would give it 5 years tops! TOPS! I call BS!

[KostasKouvalis]

[shortster]

It seems unlikely since he crossed the Bearing Sea into Russia; but had to swim the Caspian Sea to avoid walking through Russia.

[KostasKouvalis]

EXACTLY