Longest walkable distance on Earth which no one is known to have completed

There's a route on Earth which is the longest distance someone can walk but no one's ever been known to have tried it.

If you fancied getting even more competitive on Strava, then how about tackling this challenge?

Look, whether you'd actually want to take it on is another question entirely, but it's quite cool to know that it's there for when you may fancy the mission - or if you just like having a little scroll over some maps.

The Earth's longest walking route spans from South Africa all the way Eastern Russia.

It's fair to say you'd want to pack light, but would probably struggle given you'd end up hiking your way across hot deserts one moment and then frozen wastelands the other.

For those considering the ambitious hike - Russell Cook I'm looking at you - you’ll need to begin in the port of Magadan in Russia and you'll finish in sunny Cape Town - having walked a total of nearly 22,387km.

Hiking across arid deserts and frozen wastelands, only the brave would venture on this path less travelled. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

However, you’ll need to save up your vacation days as the route will take an estimated 187 days or roughly 4,800 hours of non-stop walking to complete the journey.

Even if you were to forgo all sleep and toilet breaks, the route would still take most of a year - well above the 25 vacation days most people are entitled to.

As well as getting the green light from your boss, you’ll need to bring an extensive wardrobe as well as a valid passport as you cross through 17 countries - including Suez Canal, Turkey, Central Asia and across Siberia - all with their own climate and difficult terrain.

Unsurprisingly, no one is known to have completed the hike.

The route will take an estimated 187 days. (Getty Stock Image)

While you may gain lifelong bragging rights and an incredible story after completing the route, we wouldn’t recommend it.

As well as getting weary legs, the trip enters into some of the most dangerous territories in the world, such as Russia - the country in an ongoing war since it's invasion of Ukraine - and you'd have to navigate multiple border crossings too.

And medical operations supervisor at Global Rescue Jeffrey Weinstein states as per Global Rescue: "It’s not that walking this distance is impossible. But there’s a big difference between something being doable and something being accomplishable. There are just so many complicating factors to this trek, it would be extremely unlikely anyone would be able to accomplish it."

So even if you do fancy yourself quite the hiker, it might be best to give this a miss.

• The most isolated place on Earth where astronauts in space are the nearest people to you
• Mystery of cave known as 'most dangerous place on Earth' that left visitors with one of the deadliest diseases known to man
• Teenager explains why he chose to pay $6,300 a year to live permanently on trains
• Orangutan stuns scientists as it becomes first ever wild animal to treat wound with medicinal plant