KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ROUTE:

A total of 4.6km, starting at Mount Faber, crossing the Henderson Waves & finishing at Hort Park.

Every 100 metres = 100 million years, hence by the end of the walk, we would have covered the 4.6 billion years since Earth's genesis.

☄️0km starting point:

A Mars-sized body, named Theia, collided with the early Earth. The debris from this massive impact coalesced in orbit to form the Moon.

🌊200m:

Earth was subjected to an intense bombardment of asteroids and intense heat, which boiled off any liquid water on the surface, forming water vapour in the atmosphere. When it finally rained, our first ocean was formed.

🦠800m:

The first sign of life emerged. The early atmosphere was a toxic mix of methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen, but these early life forms were anaerobic, meaning they did not require oxygen.

😮‍💨2.3km halfway point:

This marks the epic moment of finally enough oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere, to create the breathable environment we know today.

🦖4.6km:

We enter the Carboniferous “coal-bearing” stage of the Paleozoic Era and age of dinosaurs.

🫂Last 30cm:

The entire history of Homo sapiens (roughly 300,000 years) is represented in just the last 30cm of the 4.6 km walk. The entirety of recorded human history, from the first civilizations, is compressed in these final millimetres.