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How Far Is Walked In Films?


There are quite a few films where the hero/s take a journey by foot so below are a few with the distances travelled.

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In the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy Frodo and Sam walk:
  • 458 miles: Go from Hobbiton to Rivendell
  • 462 miles: Rivendell to Lothlorien via Moria 
  • [389 miles: From Lothlorian to Rauros (taken by boat)]
  • 470 miles: Rauros to Mount Doom 
This makes a total of 1,390 miles or 2237km  (distances taken from http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/07/23/walking/)
The Fellowship of Silly Walks

Bilbo's journey in 'The Hobbit' seems, in comparison to his nephew's journey, to be quite short at 950 miles, 1530 kilometers, from the Shire to the Lonely Mountain (And some of that was by pony)

 'Wild' starring Reece Witherspoon has her walking the Pacific Crest Trail a distance of 2,663 miles or 4,286 km over 94 days.
Wild2014Poster.jpg
 Image from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_(film)

In 'Forest Gump' Forest, after being rejected by Jenny, goes running one day and keeps going for 3 years, 2 months, 14 days, and 16 hours crossing America twice completely and partially a few times covering an estimated 19,024 miles or 30616 kilometers

Image from http://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/01/Is-Forrest-Gumps-Run-Even-Possible/

 There's a good discussion as to whether this run is possible at http://theweek.com/articles/457759/could-forrest-gump-have-possibly-survived-epic-run

'Tracks' is a 2013 film about Robyn Davidson who walked 1,700 miles, or 2,700 kilometers, across the Australian deserts to the Indian Ocean with her four camels and her dog in 1977 over nine months.
TRACKS



'The Walk' is a 2015 film about the 1974 French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade center which he did back and forth six times - each time across is 140 feet or 42.7 meters making a distance of 512.4 meters or 0.318 miles walked in total.
The Walk (2015 film) poster.jpg



'A Walk in the Woods' is a 2015 film adapted from Bill Bryson's book of the same name and details his and his friend Stephen Katz's hike along the Appalachian Trail although they only manage to hike about half of it in three months (in the book they mange 800 miles or 1,300 km of its 2,200 miles or 3,500 km).





In 'The Way' Tom walks the Camino de Santiago from Saint Jean Pied du Port to Santiago which is a distance of about 450 miles or 770 kilometers

The Way
Image from https://www.caminodesantiago.me/the-way-a-

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