Name: What's the Most Difficult Place to Get to In the World?
Uploaded: 2020-01-09T06:39:43.000Z
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can be reached with a simple plane flight

and maybe an uber with some added walking in between

So, surely if you want to go somewhere, you can get there in a reasonable amount of time

Right? The truth is, there are still some shockingly difficult and remote places to get to

in the world, and there are still some places that nobody in all of human history has ever been to yet!

The question is, where is the most difficult place that you can possibly get to in the world?

and how can you get there if you stop watching this video now, and set off on your journey?

Let's start with how far we've come. This is a map from 1914 that details travel times around the world

if you started in London. Back then, most of Europe could be reached in under 5 days travel time

while more remote parts of Scandinavia and Russia would take 5-10 days. Getting to

San Francisco could have taken 10-20 days, Sydney would have taken upto 40 days,

and there were parts on every continent except for Europe, that would have still taken

months to actually get to. Today, however the travel times are absurdly lower where all of Europe can

be reached in under half a days journey, as well as large parts of North America, Africa

and Asia. The journey to San Francisco that would have taken 20 days, 100 years ago, now

takes only half a day. The journey to Sydney, that would have taken 40 days, now takes just

about 1 day. Much of the world has been open to rapid transportation thanks to modern

air travel. But, there are still a few places that haven't kept up with the rest of the world.

A UK overseas island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that is home to a mere 49 people

that is hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest other inhabited island.

If you want to move here they'll actually give you a free plot of land to build your house on,

And temperatures remain tropical year around.

But there's no airport on the island, so transportation with the outside world is done only by boats,

So the best way that, I found to get there. From London,

is as followed. You would first have to get a flight from London to Los Angeles.

then you would need to take a flight from Tahiti to

only happens once ever week. And it would

five hours, and 30 minutes and It's the closest airport to Pitcairn.

it only leaves once every three months to visit.

If you're lucky enough and managed to get on the boat

sailing before you finally arrive at Pitcairn.

the Kurguelen Islands, also known by their ominious name

From the closest other population center in Madagascar.

So first you need to arrive on that island somehow.

and then get on the six day boat journey to "The Desolation Islands"

but there's an even greater challenge to do once you're there. The tallest mountain on the island is 1850 meters high and

the first guy who flew on top of it is some guy who flew up in a helicopter in 1960.

Hardly anybody has ever been there, since.

It's one of the most remote mountain summits in the world, which means that it's likely

one of the most difficult places to get to on

earth, But there are some other which are significantly more

Which is the tallest volcano in Antartica.

Antartica is already difficult enough to get to with no regularly

scheduled flights from anywhere in the world of the

volcano is located in the most remote part of Antartica known as Mary Birdland a place so vast

It's basically like being on the Moon here.

and the volcano is 428 meters high. It wasn't even discovered until

until 1934 and nobody had ever climbed it to the top of it until 1990.

and ever since then only two expeditions have ever successfully made it to the top.

Which makes the summit of Mount Sidley a elusive place that very few people have or will ever be to.

The summit of Mount Everest in the Nepal-China border is the highest summit on earth.

And is obviously very difficult to get to.

It's 8,848m tall and has been successfully reached by only around 4,000 people through history.

Which is fewer people than have ever won a Grammy, but 223 have died while attempting to climb as well which means out of everybody who has ever tried climbing to the top.

About 1 out of every 20 of them has died trying that sounds very dangerous and difficult of course.

But then we move on to another mountain named K2 which is the second tallest mountain the world that is far more difficult to climb only around 300 people have ever successfully made it to the top. While

Which means about one in ever five people who has ever tried getting there has died while trying.

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