YouTuber Tom Davies walks 'completely pointless' straight line across Wales
"It sounds horrendous, and it was horrendous, but we live in an age now where so much has been done, so much of the map has been discovered or completed."It was a stone that hadn't been turned over and I've turned it over."He walked 10 miles a day and admitted that while that "doesn't sound a lot", the obstacles in his path included mountains and more.
"Then there's all the forests with fallen trees you have to climb over and under - it just knackers you out," he said.He said he could not wait to go back to Wales in a more relaxed capacity. He documented the journey and posted it on YouTube to his 1.2m subscribers. His videos have had hundreds of thousands of views.Tom said he was more determined than ever to conquer the Wales route as he was challenged by two other YouTubers, having failed previously because of GPS failure or illness.
His previous attempts in Wales helped to grow his YouTube audience, alongside videos playing GeoGuessr, an online game where people have to guess a location via Google Street View.Tom Davies said it was incredible that it did not rain during his challenge to walk across Wales in a straight line "I had about 60,000 subscribers, and it was during the pandemic where people were looking for videos to escape," he said.Tom said he wanted to inspire people to get outdoors.He said a lot more people from all over the world were now trying this form of adventure, and they only realised how tough straight line missions were when they got out and did it.
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