His website, The Longest Way, documents his walk in great detail, and the film he put together of the walk (embedded below), has received over 1.1 million hits on YouTube.
Christoph states that although you can see images of him
sitting on a plane or riding in a boat in the video, those were shot during
breaks from walking, “…either to sort out bureaucracy issues or to take care of
some personal things.”
A year in the planning, Cristoph writes of the walk that
“…getting as far as I got was an experience for which I am very grateful.”
It is interesting to see Rehage’s transformation from a
“clean cut, beardless, lean, mean, fighting machine,” into the weather beaten,
long-haired, bearded, adventurer he became by the time he ended his mammoth
walk.
Christoph Rehage now studies in Berlin, and has no plans to
embark on other extended walks. He is however, writing a book about his walk,
and while I assume its initial publication will be in German, I would be great
to see it translated into English.
Until then, enjoy Rehage’s year-long walk and growing beard
via this time lapse video.
More information
Homepage: www.thelongestway.com/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/CRehage
Music: The Kingpins, and Zhu Fengbo.
