![]() ![]() On SeptemLauren Ditolla, Ant Chapin and Keri Bean and I flew to Moscow to begin an 8,000-mile journey re-tracing the route taken by Slavomir Rawicz. We spent three months using various forms of transportation including our own feet, rickshaws, camels, horses, bicycles, hydrofoils, trains, planes and automobiles to re-trace Slavomir’s footsteps. Many people questioned the validity of such an epic tale of survival and I wanted to see if such a journey was possible. ![]() Later Rawicz published a book about his trek The Long Walk: A true story of a Trek to Freedom. ![]() Rawicz and his group had no supplies except for a knife, axe, the cloths on their backs and the determination that arises when there are no other options. Over the next year they traveled on foot through the frozen tundra of Siberia, across the scorching Gobi desert and finally over the mountains of the Himalaya to India and freedom. In 1941, Slavomir Rawicz escaped from a Soviet Union gulag (prison camp) with 6 other inmates. ![]()
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