How I Could Travel To Diomede Islands Of Russian Territory In Bering Straight From Inside Of Russia

Is it possible to travel from Russia to Alaska on foot in the winter?

The two previous answerers have answered the question well. I’d like to add that if you expand your definitions of “Russia” and “Alaska” just a bit, there’s one place where walking across might be much easier: the Diomede Islands.The Diomedes are smack in the middle of the Bering Strait, and the international boundary separates them: Russia has Big Diomede Island to the left, and the US owns Little Diomede Island to the right. The distance between them is 2.4 miles, and it’s quite possible to walk between them when the sea is frozen. The Inupiat natives used to do that routinely; I gather that many families were split when the Soviets removed the native population from Big Diomede to the mainland. Big Diomede is now home to a detachment of Russian border guards—meaning that you’d almost certainly get arrested if you tried to walk across the border without arranging permission in advance. There’s still a small, mostly Inupiat population on Little Diomede. (Note that Sarah Palin’s claim that “you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska”—often misquoted as “I can see Russia from my house”—is actually quite true.)Michael Palin (of Monty Python fame) hosted a BBC TV show, Full Circle, in which he traveled all around the Pacific Rim, beginning on Little Diomede—although he doesn’t travel to Big Diomede, but goes by way of the Aleutians. This will give some idea of what the place looks like:Also: British adventurer Karl Bushby is still attempting to walk an unbroken path around the world, from southernmost Chile, up the Pacific coast of the Americas, across the Bering Sea and then across Eurasia all the way to England. In March 2006, he and his fellow adventurer Dimitri Kieffer crossed the frozen Bering Straits on foot and were detained by Russian border guards near the village of Uelen. (Source: Karl Bushby) So the Shparo family are not the only ones to make the trip.You can see just how hard it is to walk across the entire Bering Strait here—here’s Part 1 of a documentary on Bushby’s expedition. Apparently they ended walking something like 150 miles, because the ice was drifting and carried them far off their course. All four parts are on YouTube—check ’em out!Here’s Part 4, where you find out how it ended:

Is it true that you can easily swim from Russia to the USA in a short distance, even without a passport?

Russia and Alaska are divided by the Bering Strait, which is about 55 miles or 88 km at its narrowest point.But in the middle of the Bering Strait are two small, sparsely populated islands: Big Diomede, which sits in Russian territory, and Little Diomede, which is part of the United States. They are the closest you can get.if you were to swim from Big to Little Diomede (assume cold weather gear), it is a 4000 meter swim, or just under 2.5 miles. You would cross the International Date Line, and a border. I think it is possible to do that, say in a 2 hour swim. In August, it can be as warm as 10 to 12 deg Centigrade or 50-54 degrees. Robin Adams has rightly pointed out that Lynn Cox did that, in 1987.Big on the left, Little on the right.Little (American) on the left, Big (Russian) on the right.In winter:Edit: Thanks for all the upvotes.Half the comments pointed out that you can walk across in winter, and I point out that reply (while true) does not answer the question asked. But yes, it can be done.