I saw the movie, "The Long Walk" last night. It was hard to fathom one escaping from a Siberian Gulag prison and walking through the cold Russian forests, Mongolian Gobi desert, Tibet and the Himalayans, finding freedom in northern India. 4000 miles of walking over a year! This story has been challenged (see Wikepedia link). There were other stories of escapees from the tortuous Siberian prisons making their way to freedom. This occurred during Stalin's regime in the earlier part of World War II. A lot of sore and swollen feet. The movie is OK for the geography and history lesson, the National Geographic helped sponsor it.
