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If you can't walk 13 miles in one day...

posted 13 years ago by LizzyCaplansLover
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then you deserve to die. How this group isn't able to wake up when the sun comes up and walk 13 miles to the checkpoint is beyond me. Yes the one guy is injured and can't walk at all, then leave another person there with him for company and safe keeping and START WALKING. Even if you go in intervals of walking 2 miles and jogging 1 mile, you're going to get to the checkpoint before night falls.

Personally I didn't like this movie. I didn't care for the characters at all, and when they died I didn't feel any remorse for it either. If anything I was rooting for them getting killed just so it would end and I could leave.

[–] dale-cooper73 11 years ago

The issue is not to get lost "in the zone". In reality you can even get lost in Pripyat itself without a guide. You cannot always see the old road anymore even in the city.
In Pripyat you would eventually find your way during daytime. Around that place in the wild i´m not so sure.

I read a blog of a guy who actually did sneak into the zone. He got lost and was relieved to get caught and be taken out again....

[–] nimmy1 10 years ago

I think people need to watch it properly, they DID set off to walk the 13 miles, they left the injured one behind at his request. They where prevented from going directly down the road due to some wild dogs, detouring, they found a car park, found some parts for the car and returned to fix the one they arrived in which had now disappeared.

Only those with no valid argument pick holes in people's spelling and grammar.

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[–] BrunoAntony (1198) 6 years ago

13 miles is an hour-and-a-half jog for me.

I'm assuming they didn't attempt it because one person was injured and they were unsure what was out there or the terrain.

[–] TearofLys (2656) 5 years ago

Yeah, these are 20 somethings in the prime of their life. I backpacked the Appalachian Trail and at one point I cam across a 70 year old woman that averaged about 15 miles a day over mountainous terrain and with a backpack. If she could do that, then at least one of these kids could walk 13 miles.