ILLEGAL FREEDOM: Journey Across Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

The traffic jam is unbelievable, just keep it, driver, so it stops here, it's natural, here we are going to take that and meet Anton, he will be our guide or whatever for the Chernobyl trip minion, check me out, both of you We're running out of an hour of sleep. It feels terrible, just like nine thirty right now, we have about half an hour to meet him, yeah, I feel motivated at all. I'm so sorry, we have an a for about five hours. I need to get my head together. Point goes to the Rome metro to meet him, buy supplies and then move on, sober.

I'm going to go pick up some specialized food and water reserves and then we'll go to the bus station, we'll take the bus to the places I guess closest to the

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from there we'll take a taxi, but now we have to find it, so we met with that very good Russian silicon community correctly, unfairly, okay, let's see the plan the first day, the first day you get to trivia at night, I think sleep, yeah. We're walking privately on the second day, so today we start getting into Dooba and we're off to a good start. Is that how you describe sports?

She is special around the bicycle. If this pipe is selfish, it is very beautiful. He bought the things right now. take out cap rent those minutes cash for taxis taxi harasser private Express we are also going to get infections like peppers fresh things these people observe how long until why we spend an hour yes, I know we will walk like 20 kilometers 40 kilometers right, you are going to kill backpacks Tibetan meat stupid country, this is very cheap for me, yes I know, very cheap for the people here, the people from England, but the people who live here earn terrible salaries.

The minimum wage in Ukraine was like 4000 English, yes, if they catch you. in the

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you are fine and lower the password that we committed a crime, yes, and you will have to be ordered to leave the country a week in advance or yes, we will have to leave the country in a week and when can we return. If you want you can do it the next day, but why do you have a stem? And each time we will have to say well, we were in Chernobyl, yes, the interesting story remains that he has been to the area four times and three other bills. four times they caught him the first time it was an accident the second time they were so tired walking back that they actually went to the main roads where the police drive to get caught and get them out of the area and the third time one of the guys got caught he got very sick vomiting all the time they were just walking, make noise before to attract someone to come and help the friend get to the pot, you can use the police strategically to save yourself, hopefully we won't need that.

Look, he wants to go a little because the non-techies rent someone who is really suspicious, he will never go to Chernobyl. Prentis, the visitor who was like a student project, everything is so last minute it's ridiculous, we basically made a team that is priceless, like five hours before it was applied here. so it's terrible, but I'm optimistic we'll see your boys come back, scimitar and now we're nine, you're ten, ten, maybe this will know so now we'll be fine, put away the gas burner. I also need a special alpine climber Table seven times a horse during this match was legal commercial research is the snack piece equip everything else I'm pretty sure I won't leave anything out of all this we have left to do go to the bus station getting to the point where we can get in the taxi getting to the taxi was a smooth ride to work Sandoval, hopefully because all this damn walking from the store to the stories really cool 15 kilogram backpacks for hours is at least not motivating, but still I'm excited, I still want to get them, yeah, basically when we get to the

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, I'll tell you what the expectation might be to get to them tonight.

I'm tired, man, okay, okay, oh yeah, and what a terrible high it is, so this is the first one. then we will have the second trip and then the final third trip, yes, checkmate. Hey, finally, it's okay, so I have to take it easy, now I'm not going to stop, this is fun, ma'am. put because yes, yes, medical attack, look how far the Soviet is, 15 kilometers, it's 50 work flow, yes, it's 10:10, okay, so tell me about the vegetal caustic wave of your swallow, obviously I'm sure of that, sir. Nazerman distinguished honors by throwing a little information on a sign.

This town that we just passed is the closest place to Chernobyl, which is the most inhabited, so we are two kilometers from the

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zone. It is ten o'clock. I think the target is 1736. It would become creepy and attend the night, so we would be walking for as many kilometers as we can. You have those old bushes and you got in the way. I guess it's not far from the edge of the exclusion zone. It is definitely much better to walk this path and then go through all those things. I complain a lot because again one hour of sleep will mean walking for the rest of the night until we basically give up.

It will be interesting for you. path welcome in deduction a visitor fee too bad we are Amazon at the moment yes, so this sign says that you cannot search here the sign later on that interesting yellow sign, so we officially wish that the Scimitar says that it is a zero point in kyiv in Max it was 0.13 or something The ethical limit is yes, so you on the ground, yes, you say that if we find metal, the metal should have more radiation. Yes, of course, we have to raise tensions. An hour since we started walking, we covered a couple of kilometers without shaking, he says we are getting closer. an hour of sunlight left an interesting river approaching in an hour and we are going to have to cross it, we are not sure how deep it is, hopefully we can make it a lot, so bright, so what I started well, so we get to the river no It seems so high, yeah, he goes down a lot here, he reaches the first obstacle up to this point, the river is nice and crosses right here, I don't know if you can see there's a log, he goes down a lot, so we're definitely going to take our pants off.

If fifteen kilograms I'm naked, let's go at this point I'm just going to swim completely radioactive that's going to give us super fun those things we're going to get into a bath well nothing like a nice swim in a cool and refreshing river to Renault Blue River to remove the appetite, let's go camping here a little excited to show you what we're going to cook, alpine fast food with a gas burner to cook it, this is the first time I've used something like this, each one has ten packages of food, this one, for example , it's a table meal package, it's basically mashed potatoes and some parts of meat, some spaghetti with rice, a nice pie for the evening, some alpine brahmin at 8pm. m. after we go we're going to head in that direction to see how far it is about 30 kilometers and we walked here for kilometers so we barely walked look like six kilometers now yeah actually I forgot to show you I don't know if I can see 0.07 right now at the very least as I can get ground zero 11 a little bit so far, okay we've packed up and cleaned up the night is upon us we've actually changed the plan a bit so h20 right now let's walk about 18 kilometers and we go into the forest, we go maybe two, maybe three hours, okay, there will come a point in which our four bottles that we each have for ourselves will run out and then we will have to go to a place where everyone the stalkers are going to drink rainwater filter, put some disinfectant tablets and still sketches of what the hell it's interesting, you think it was here before it looks very old, nothing creepy, so we have found a path that has been used quite a bit by part of the other stalkers this makes it much easier to walk the light is very nice and quiet hey has anyone been here recently yes, they lit a small fire and that's where they slept not bad, are there several here? there's another one up ahead in that direction, yeah, just huge empty barn houses.

I may be hearing things, but I feel like I heard dogs in that direction, okay, come on, yeah, I said, I heard such a barren dog place the wolf bullet somewhere behind us and I. I don't want it to come closer, you see that sign in the distance, it's just that the town that you see in the glass, there was something here, not right there, there's a house, okay, let's go through an abandoned town, now I'm still shining like every now and then, just in case I see a mirrored pair of eyes as it's paranoid to induce those howls oh look the house dog looks sick yes this is a normal welcome in a ukrainian house we have a boot boy yes someone definitely stayed here so levels they are very very neutral she was normal that's 0.12 yeah everything normal so I guess this used to be the main path okay let's see where the candy is now this is something I didn't expect which I definitely I didn't expect to have someone interesting, no, them.

They are fake, but someone really made the effort to bring them here. This is a new one. This is new. They are all new. One always goes bah-bah. I wonder how old they really are. This one has a square. Let's see. no 1 1925 1980 1980 1943 1921 1988 what is that supposed to look like? like those peaks maybe it was a sailor and an anchor hmm maybe it keeps appearing goes like a house there without date cozy sir. Chet pizza I guess people slept here in this creepy but abandoned place or not, the cemetery oh that was crazy, not expected. I like abandoned towns, this is the end or the beginning of the town because this is the interesting bus stop we stopped at. a bit we're about a hundred meters from the main road it's that way I have blisters on both feet so I want to put some plasters on yeah we keep hearing I guess it's a male deer screaming like that right in front of us and that's creepy, They're not like predatory animals, I guess, but they're very defensive talking about predators, all of this he wrote like three miles or whatever.

The wolves have been howling on the left side 22:28 at this point we are going at a good pace. I guess so, when do we get to the main road? We'll have to do it a little sneakily because cars pass by on the main road. We'll be going for about an hour. Police or security in the area explore these roads daily. And I guess at night I also sometimes can't use my light. They will use red lights that are easier to miss in the dark. My light is white so it's very easy to spot, so yeah slap, I'm going to fix my feet now.

Okay, so this is the main road right now, we're just going to walk for about an hour on this road, just security is coming, we'll see if we're on our way, but with these red lights security won't see us from very far away, let's keep going. Walking probably Kenzie stripped off probably halfway through is very intense because every 30 seconds one of us turns around to check if there's a car coming up behind us or keep an eye out and see if there are headlights yeah keep walking fine so just We get off the main road, we can rest, yes, I'm so damned dad for this stupid walk and we can't sleep, we start walking at a fast pace too and we hurt ourselves so many moves and it will be as risky as sleeping outside, you hear.

There are so many movements here, it's crazy, it's literally difficult. I've been walking for quite a few hours before Chernobyl and kyiv, when we were gathering all our things we were walking back and forth and the lack of sleep doesn't really help. Being cold now tonight is something special, all the animals go crazy with these things. I appreciate these moments when we go to sleep in this area. Those aren't ant hills, they're just small hills. There are a lot of movies. screaming I don't know what it's about but we're going to take a chance because we're very tired yes and I'm going crazy anyway this is the setup but a tarp doesn't do much good but it stops me from putting my hand in the sand and I have a proper mat to sleep on Silver both sleeping bags nothing over the head because it shouldn't rain that's where I'm going to sleep Donna has something similar to me that's where checking the animals are going to sleep really going crazy around us, hopefully, nothing will go wrong, listen tonight, yes this is completely wild, I'll try to sleep, beautiful Chernobyl morning, it was cold at night so, now it's not so good, I woke up around 2:00 am. very cold the problem now wasn't the cold from below the mat really helped me on top the sleeping bag didn't warm me enough I needed like a blanket or something like that a whole cup of exercise when I went back to sleep I couldn't' I didn't sleep for at least One more hour all the animals were screaming so loud, did you hear that?

Oh yes, yesterday we walked halfway and today we have to walk the rest of the way to Pripet. At the end of yesterday's walk, I felt like everything was okay. my legs hurt my head while we were walking it was too hot when we stopped the sweat got too cold but I feel a little rested well keep up the good work actually what we didn't do yesterday was check how much radiation is here soThey used a pharmacist now. Oh, she was a stalker and she said oh no, but she's okay, nice, the bus. there's a storage symbol there, go under it first, now go square teeth first, so that's our apartment complex water, we'll come to you.

Peter left the factory or straight to Duga, but inspire, okay, come on guys. Nice and spacious. Two windows. This is fully furnished. For me, through the one you know, my apartment, I could actually just sleep here nice and airy, quite nice to live here, no neighbors, no rules, no limits, your constant supply of food and fresh water wouldn't give me cancer or the other dog in response, oh definitely. Live here, this place is sick anyway, buy an apartment, invest all that money in time just to stay in one place for the rest of your life, this is perfect for me, okay, check me out.

I slept quite warm, okay, so the car passes on this road, so near the factory I'm going to leave our backpacks here and we're going to explore, come on, I don't know specifically, but I'm done, I said it buddy, there's a Sir. tools and it's definitely something to do with your power plant there's a bottle of vodka there this was the dining room yeah I remember these like huge pots those are my kindergarten cooks or whatever - have they been bigger days everything is fine someone going to the second part of their ice cream, this was more of an office document, leisure bar, no, that was definitely the production part, very good, okay, it's Hollis' movie, oh oh, yes, definitely, place of production, come read so far, go, you just heard a car horn. that direction is okay, now I understand the layout of the office building, the office building, the production building and this is the power building, this is the whole bus through the back of a truck. there is no other bus on the side here is a collage hat I like these abandoned carts, so I will try to leave them now, the largest one to have an overview of the entire territory of the user factory, please road lord, I made it from proof that all is well now we're going to head towards Booga for whatever mile is fun, what's that big wall?

So the wall goes ahead. She has traveled a kilometer right now. We have to overcome this wall and our son is carrying us over it. On the other side because this goes on, we can't walk and we keep walking, yeah we'll see, so those are garages, I'm not sure what they are doing here, but there will be a road in about two hundred meters, no need to climb to the top . of them, how far this strange road, the train tracks go to the reactor and that way they get 60 kilometers out of the area just by walking there under strike for six days a day.

It's terrible, okay, let's take a break and walk near the uncontrolled drug forest. thank you honey after earlier crossing the forest to mom for a Jewish man on the dot we haven't checked okay, ahead where the forest again is not going to be so bad because we are walking to a different side three kilometers of this let's go guys not like very poor it doesn't show numbers over 600 we definitely won't stay here for long the red forest would be a shortcut it would be quicker to go through it undone it says it goes up to ten twenty thousand yesterday the maximum that We returned to this place the first time we saw director number five.

The first time we saw the circle at home, we dove into the edge of the red forest and fucked with all the foliage and kept going. I can't even complain about anything anymore, this becomes normal. Some kind of offense here, so it's on defense, what does that say? This is our Instagram that is here. In fact, I can tell the time right now, 17:33, so we'll be welcome for about two hours, probably more correct, okay, phrased. I'm Putin and 570 117 radiation here, so it's about four times the safe limit or whatever, but again, since we won't be here for long, it'll barely affect us, we're about three or four hours away from Duga 200.

Look at them. Close enough, you are kind, we are halfway there, so how did they correctly get about ten kilometers to go to Google, we are already halfway there at seven, right now we are going to reach Duga this afternoon, we will look for a nearby place to sleep and in the morning. at dawn, then we'll go up it, come on, son, it'll go down in about an hour, so we'll take a break. 1956, about five kilometers from Duga, we should be there before 10:00, sweet, you shouldn't be too far now. Now it might be better to think that I'm done, he said, that means it's going to be cold, he knows the language of the moon, they're a wild animal, fucking them everywhere, this is a young night, okay, we can see it right there, twenty and a half minutes away. the bored moose screaming around us it's creepy okay we'll patch the trees before the tower and it's the deepest dan this thing is huge Wow oh this is incredibly huge that's so far from what are these miss pig cables dude this is crazy just condensed milk The tea is so good, no potatoes, bacon, it's a nice afternoon.

I'm in bed after 11:00. Tonight is going to be a cold night. Is there. I'm doing yoga behind those trees. We will start climbing at 5 a.m. and yeah, good night, okay, we're awake, it's 5:00, it's time for us to take our backpacks to the other side, yeah, there's like two towers in the middle, go ahead and go to the same height as those individually, but they are not connected everything here is connected is this ah this was an elevator so some levels connect other parts of the tower yeah that's the elevator not even on some levels these birds just connect individual parts and I can actually walk through everything there is a huge abandoned building there the electricity in the office and of course there the circus is the cooling tower and listen, so this is the exclusion zone 200 meters away, you know, when they took those light things out of the crotch because the wind is very strong, I don't want to Stay in this Hey, rushing because it doesn't, yeah.

Wow, so this is kind of amazing. You know, abandoned buildings torn apart because security comes at this time. Yes, dear, I really want to check those buildings. Are you sure we have to go that far? Since I am opposed to his idea, I have to comply because he knows this better than me, let's go home, now let's check the building further. Now I'm going to claim one on Google. I really want to, but again, he's the one with the experience here I have to trust him, but damn, he's amazing. I definitely want to come back here.

This is my favourite place. Great, it was good, but what do you think? Yes, this is the one. Yes, you'll see a lot more of this later. It's so broken it's like all the wires are dangling. I think it's much older, which means it's cool and doable. It is a worse condition than Aloha. Most things I don't know what they do of course, so if anyone knows they can explain them. tubes, let's call them falling, they are like that, now we are heading in the direction, we try to get out of the exclusion zone without getting caught at night, we should be out for now, we have about 20 kilometers left to go, but about four hours of sleep because It was cold, so I had to wake up and exercise again.

Baba Duga, who was sick, did you check how much radiation there was? Valentine said we didn't read what he said, there's not much radiation so that's good, I guess it's subjective but security man I saw that, that was very unexpected ok of course he was right about security , so I managed to trust. I went about a kilometer away to be my quest, so I'll probably pick up the pace at some point when the road lights up. I walk by another one so it's been at least another kilometer and we still hear him shout that he's behind us so he's still chasing one Tuesday another and then he said it might be our food very busy and look we're still in territory goober.

I'm on the so persistent now I'm getting good now we lower the price like you sell hunters. I'm done, he says we should stop here and he buys undone it's not Jesus, he's going to come back and try to cut us off the language we use. I'm going to wait out here for, okay, more of them. I'm going to come from there to here. It sucks, we're tired too, so that's not security, it's military, basically, army. I'm going to hide this SD and record right now with the new one. one, so if they catch us you won't see the chase from the beginning, will we hide?

Okay, let's escape from the army, then don't step on any legs, a big noisy branch, so right now we are heading towards the road, we are worried that on the way who might try to cut us off, but unless I wait there no There is a way for me to know when we are going to cross it, so this is the way. Are any of these fresh? They will follow the path for kilometers, what are the footprints. It doesn't seem fresh, okay, we have about three more, let's go the rest of this way to continue very carefully, everything seems calm so far, what's up with Uncle Horace outside the yoga class?

There's a horse in the back, yes, if he's here, then there's more. just walking there is a random horse in the middle of the road walk for us or wait I don't know it's very dangerous here we go off the road yeah okay it means they're not chasing us anymore but we have a new enemy. We'll relax here, cook some food and drink and wait for the horse to leave us. We'll probably head into the woods. I was thinking we had primed him with military blood. Now, wild animals, our problem. Luckily, the horse escaped. It takes about seven hours of walking to the left about 25 kilometers until we leave the area, it's going to flood or anything that worries me apart from all the animal is that we are going to have to walk along an active path we are going to return to the path We left tonight and there were no cars, now during the day there will be cars, so you have to keep in mind that they are always about ten kilometers away, always quite far away, but yes, we are going to eat, now this is the mark of the exclusion.

This is 30 kilometers from the reactor and every ten kilometers there are stretches of barbed wire to mark radiation levels. If they are 30 kilometers away, they were on three levels and it was electrified, yes, it is still running, so it was like a fence, it was not just putting up. on the ground and there is something written there I really can't understand it great Houston an abandoned town at this time the Duster that this is the town without a name because during its years of operation it did not have an interesting name there was a bottle of water and it would look like a military raincoat , a sleeping bag, I guess it's been used recently by some stalkers, the head is interesting, storm sign, there are quite a few abandoned buildings here at the moment, we're still on a mission to get to the main road below. 10 kilometers right now, apparently the nameless town has a cemetery, hopefully with some names, check a couple of UNAMI graves, yes there is a poet from 1929, oh it's 1904, isn't it 12 right now, like this that we are back in the safe zone?

The worst thing we had was approaching pre-packing through the red forest, it's a bit spooky now, yeah which makes us a bit nervous, they pass by here several times a day, we'll have to walk about a kilometer or they have to listen and check that this is the abandoned cemetery that we were looking for at night the first day. Listen, that's not a contradiction. Anyway, payment was taken care of. We are about four kilometers from the river. I can't wait to get into that river. I am very good at the river, we got about two tons, it says there is more water, I think with checkmate, basically what will go down, one of us will go in and check how much water there is.

I don't care, oh that's good, he said the patrols actually go here from the beginning of the zone, he said they still patrol the center, you said there are two cars parked in the nearby town, there's the sign, the first ones what we saw now. It would be very rare for trucks to come because the last time he said he was caught here at the dam, this would be the worst time to be caught. A car is coming. We saw him on that road and I guess he turned around, so after that, believe it. or not, there were people living here and that house beyond here there are some dogs that came to the meeting place.

The guys will come in 30 minutes to pick us up at the bus station to get to kyiv. This is the plan. A big adventure. the background radiation here is 14. I'm just checking my backpacking shoes and checking that they will be the same. We are in civilization. I have to go to the shop. I'm going to buy some food. Sick. Illegal. Pretty boy.