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Hypo: 1 year to walk from Cape Town to Alexandria for $10M
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Date: October 28th, 2024 12:20 PM Author: Bateful voyeur deer antler You have one year from today to hie to South Africa to start your journey. Once you're on the clock, you cannot use any vehicles or you forfeit, other than for water crossings, for which you can use a ferry.
If you make it on foot to Alexandria within a year of starting, you get $10M tax free.
You'll have a visa for every country in Africa. That doesn't mean that local brigands won't demand illegitimate payments or otherwise harass you.
You can quit any time you like, but you won't teleport home or anything like that. The journey is happening irl, so if you get hurt on the walk, you get hurt irl.
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Date: October 28th, 2024 1:59 PM Author: Hyperactive double fault This cannot be done in one year, solely on foot.
The most direct route is untenable due to civil strife. I assume you can stay in hotels/hostels, etc.? |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 2:05 PM Author: motley rose queen of the night According to Google Maps, it would take 90 days of continuous walking. Adding in sleep/breaks/avoiding certain areas, this seems possible. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250198) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:07 PM Author: Bateful voyeur deer antler CR. Are you in? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250508) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:07 PM Author: Bateful voyeur deer antler It could definitely be done in one year. Google Maps shows 6,000 miles on this route. That's less than 16 miles/6 hours of walking a day.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/PTfn9yZtmp3pNiSL9
You can walk through an area with "civil strife." Plenty of videos on YouTube of people visiting South Sudan Somalia, etc.
Sure, you can stay in a hotel, hostel, local's house, pretty much wherever you want. |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:15 PM Author: brindle ratface Easy yes. I pay about $100k for protection to Lake Victoria & boat the rest of the voyage up the Nile & it's various tributaries. I'd probably stop in Aswan just because it's 180. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250533) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:28 PM Author: Bateful voyeur deer antler Don't fight the hypo. You need to walk the whole way, other than water crossings. Not sailing 1000 miles down the Nile.
How are you arranging this "protection"? Do you have the money up front? $100k only a few hundred dollars per day over the whole journey. |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:40 PM Author: brindle ratface With $10M guaranteed, I'd cash out some stock & make it happen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250602) |
Date: October 28th, 2024 2:09 PM Author: Swashbuckling judgmental address pozpig Sure, I'll just sail along the east coast into the Suez Canal and then take another boat along the north coast to Alexandria. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250228) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:08 PM Author: Bateful voyeur deer antler Don't fight the hypo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250512) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:08 PM Author: hairraiser trump supporter space what about helicopters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250516) |
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Date: October 29th, 2024 7:05 AM Author: Beady-eyed background story karate jetpack (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48252897) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:27 PM Author: Swashbuckling judgmental address pozpig I'm not fighting it. It says you can use a boat for water crossings. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250564) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:31 PM Author: Bateful voyeur deer antler (guy who went to law school because he "liked arguing") (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250575) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:34 PM Author: Swashbuckling judgmental address pozpig No, I'm just trying to collect my $10 million by exploiting a legal loophole so I don't have to walk through a bunch of lions and tigers and baboons. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250590) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 6:04 PM Author: Deep Godawful Den Potus very jewish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48251062) |
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Date: October 29th, 2024 7:03 AM Author: vivacious geriatric area macaca (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48252895) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:12 PM Author: puce wonderful newt piazza Can you ride a camel? Not a geography master man but don’t you have to go through the Sahara desert? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250526) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:31 PM Author: Bateful voyeur deer antler No camels. You need to walk the whole way, except for water crossings, for which you can take a ferry.
If a camel can walk across the Sahara, why can't you? Anyway, by that point, you could walk along the Nile. |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 6:05 PM Author: Deep Godawful Den Potus could you lead a camel along with you? not ride it, but carry a leash that is attached to it. it could keep you company, and if you were really thirsty you could murder it and drink water from its hump. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48251064) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:12 PM Author: hairraiser trump supporter space am I provided with any equipment or assistance other than visas? or just what I do and bring myself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250527) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:33 PM Author: Bateful voyeur deer antler What do you have in mind? You're not provided anything, but you can try taking whatever you want with you. Though I suspect you'd have trouble getting guns to Cape Town or something like that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250584) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:24 PM Author: sable soul-stirring legend associate There are some very desolate stretches of Sudan and Egypt where you'd have to walk hundreds of miles through the desert with no towns in between. Those seem like certain death. I'd be much more worried about those parts than about getting killed by random Africans. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250558) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:35 PM Author: Bateful voyeur deer antler There are oasises. You can bring a map. Carry water and travel at night. I doubt you would need to go more than a few days at a time without any access to water. Plus, you can pick which season you travel in.
Are you in? |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 4:12 PM Author: odious chest-beating mad-dog skullcap genital piercing welcome to the oasis, my friend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250713) |
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Date: October 29th, 2024 10:18 AM Author: concupiscible black public bath degenerate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48253325) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:33 PM Author: walnut violent mediation should be trivial for a 6'9" gigachad imho (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250582) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:34 PM Author: Stimulating purple stock car brunch I only have $5 million (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250588) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:36 PM Author: 180 State This is a 100% certain death sentence (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250597) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:37 PM Author: walnut violent mediation would make for great TV then imho (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250599) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:47 PM Author: Bateful voyeur deer antler No it's not. Guys at my high school, etc.
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/7/57-year-old-runs-across-africa-in-record-time-while-avoiding-kidnap#:~:text=A%20British%2DSouth%20African%20man%20has%20run%20the,beating%20the%20previous%20record%20by%2017%20days. |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 4:09 PM Author: sable soul-stirring legend associate He was supported by a small team who followed behind in a van containing camping equipment and medical supplies. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250702) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 5:20 PM Author: Bateful voyeur deer antler Ok. Hire a support team. Are you in? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48250951) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 5:27 PM Author: Narrow-minded passionate lodge i could do it.
i do a lot of backpacking. i could definitely do the miles. there isn't a lot of elevation changes.
the danger aspect is ljl. you guys think people are being murked in afriKKa at random. no, retard peace corp birdshits go there without any problem. a dude of reasonable build and street smarts will be fine. you can avoid most of the dangerous areas:
cape town -> pretoria -> zimbabwe -> zambia -> tanzania -> kenya -> ethiopia -> eritrea -> saudi arabia. from there it's a fucking luxury cakewalk.
$10m wouldn't be worth it for the non-zero risk, costs not being reimbursed, and time away from friends/family/career. i'd do it for $100m. but i could 100% do it.
lmfao your ancestors did this shit with real buckwild dindus. retarded cumskins so this shit all the time and don't get murked. you can avoid the jungles and sahara. plenty of towns in between, most of them even have hostels and shit lmfao. |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 5:30 PM Author: brindle ratface Would you team up with me for $5M each? I can shoot and would get us guns on the first day. It's pretty easy.
Most likely it'd be Russian Ak-47s |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 5:35 PM Author: Narrow-minded passionate lodge $5m makes it even less appealing!
but i would *pay* month to hike from cape town to pretoria with you wielding AKs and going on "safari" |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 6:01 PM Author: Bateful voyeur deer antler Call it get killed at random, call it get killed in a robbery or kidnapping, it's a serious risk either way.
But if you don't think so, why not go for it? $10M is a lot of money. |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 6:31 PM Author: Narrow-minded passionate lodge even if you could guarantee no harm and i would complete the journey, it would be very unpleasant. im 100% confident that, gun to my head, i could complete the AT. yet i have little desire to thru hike it. a week or so a year backpacking is enough for me. and that's pristine american forest alongside pleasant white people.
your journey could be easily done with few nights in the wilderness going from dindu village to another. in between that it's mostly nothing. then add in the opportunity cost. a year of my life gone, no family, no friends, career sidelined.
$10m isn't worth it. |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 5:34 PM Author: cerebral pocket flask I’d treat it like a backpacking through hike in terms of preparedness. But there are some rough stretches of desert where you’d have trouble managing hydration and, to a much lesser extent, food.
Looks like your best bet is to hug the east coast through Mozambique/Malawi and then start tracing the lakes toward the Nile to help you get past the worst of the desert areas and avoid the worst of the East African dysfunction in Somalia.
I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?
Also, I wouldn’t take the time away from my young kids for this $$ |
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Date: October 29th, 2024 7:13 AM Author: mint self-absorbed dopamine I’d hire a skiff and just go up the east coast of Africa. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48252909) |
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Date: October 29th, 2024 8:09 AM Author: sable soul-stirring legend associate What's your plan for Somali pirates? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48253019) |
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Date: October 29th, 2024 8:24 AM Author: mint self-absorbed dopamine Nobody's going to fuck with you if you're in a little skiff. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48253055) |
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Date: October 29th, 2024 9:52 PM Author: cerebral pocket flask That’s directly contrary to the rules. Otherwise I’d just use a bicycle and be done in a month’s worth of leisurely sightseeing riding. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48256558) |
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Date: October 29th, 2024 9:57 PM Author: mint self-absorbed dopamine The hypo says you can take a ferry. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48256590) |
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Date: October 29th, 2024 7:55 AM Author: drunken heady lay is the 10m taxed or untaxed? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48252991) |
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Date: October 29th, 2024 10:44 AM Author: multi-colored kitchen Capetown, CA to Alexandria, VA would be a nice journey and I could probably pull it off without dying (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48253428) |
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Date: October 29th, 2024 10:46 AM Author: High-end histrionic step-uncle's house reading party i wld do that, i like walking and love being raped by niggas (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#48253435) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 10:43 AM Author: Matthias of Redwall Did Nothing Wrong #Cornflower (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619622&forum_id=2...id#49611493) |