This Is the Longest Walkable Distance on Earth

5. George Meegan. From Tierra Del Fuego to the northernmost part of Alaska, George Meegan walked 19,019 miles in 2,425 days (1977-1983). He holds the record for the longest unbroken walk, the first and only walk to cover the entire western hemisphere, and the most degrees of latitude ever covered on foot.

the Pan-American Highway

• The suspected longest walking route on Earth is 14,000 miles from South Africa to extreme north Russia.
• Pilgrimages like the Camino de Santiago or the Appalachian Trail are short by comparison.

Originally Answered: How far can a person walk in a day? An average person would be lucky to cover 30 miles on level ground on a good surface in a day. It takes 3 hours for the average person to cover 10 miles, so they would do ten or more hours of walking, with three longish breaks and a few short ones.

The Guinness Book of Records lists Steve Newman as the first do walk around the world solo. From 1977 to 1983, he walked 19,000 miles from Tierra Del Fuego, the southern tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska. Meegan covered the entire Western Hemisphere and the most degrees in latitude ever on foot.

Karl Bushby (born 30 March 1969) is a British ex-paratrooper, walking adventurer and author, currently attempting to be the first person to completely walk an unbroken path around the world. Bushby’s trek is known as the Goliath Expedition.

Pedestrian circumnavigators