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Why carry all the water supply? Looking at the map he seems to have been a 1-2 day walk to Tan Tan probably less going back to the military outpost were he was
by smoe 5y ago
Why carry all the water supply? Looking at the map he seems to have been a 1-2 day walk to Tan Tan probably less going back to the military outpost were he was turned back.
Edit: This article says: "The nearest village was 20 miles away and Leray didn't want to risk making the trek on foot."
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- pengaru 5y agoSo you think he misjudged the difficulty of the hike? Maybe the terrain is difficult with lots of elevation change.
- smoe 5y agoI don't have an opinion on what really happened. But there are things that sound off about the story. Also it doesn't help that seemingly only a handful of media outlets and blogs copying from each other have picked up on the story 10 years after the fact without asking critical questions. I could even imagine that he did get stranded out there and knew worst case he could just walk back, so why not try to build a motorcycle for the fun of it and then dramatize the story years later.
- sswaner 5y agoThis explanation sounds most plausible if he did in fact ride a machine back to Tan Tan.
- teruakohatu 5y agoThe car managed the terrain, so it couldn't have been that difficult. It strikes me as bizarre that someone stuck in the desert with supplies would engage in experimental engineering rather than a two day hike.
- michaelt 5y agoI've known some people who don't have a calibrated idea of what the human body is capable of. Is a marathon a huge athletic feat, that the fittest people you know spend months in preparation for, and even then may only do once in their lifetime? Or is it the distance a person of average fitness can walk in a day?