Summary
- A YouTuber called ShakeMistake recently set himself the challenge of seeing what it's like to physically hike up the 7,000 Steps to High Hrothgar.
- Using an incline treadmill, a phone app called Stepl, and a few mods, ShakeMistake made it so he could actually hike to High Hrothgar.
- After an hour and a half of solid walking, ShakeMistake took a little over 8,000 steps to reach the mountain's summit, which is roughly 4 miles.
Skyrim has plenty of treacherous mountain paths full of nas🎃ty creatures to try and traverse, but the 7,000 Steps to High Hrothgar is known in-game as one of the most brutal treks one can undertake. Almost all of you reading probably dashed up those steps on your first playthrough - with a brief pause to get battered by an Ice Troll - only to make it to High Hrothgar in minutes and wonder what all the fu⛦ss was about.
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You'd be singing a different tune if you actually had to physically walk 7,000 steps to get to the home of the Greybeards, which is exactly what ꦿYouTuber ShakeMistake did in one of his most recent streams. Yes, in an effort to see just how difficult the climb to High Hrothgar ✤would be for your average Dragonborn, .
In order to make their hike as accurate as possible, ShakeMistake first made the decision to scale his character down as much as possible. Skyrim's world is signifiꦡcantly scaled down in 𒅌order to make it playable, but that means it isn't lore-accura🔴te, so Shake Mistake first had to scale his character down too to try and actually make the climb up to High Hrothgar take 7,000 steps.
Skyrim Fan Physically Hikes To High Hrothgar Using A Treadmill
Next came the actual hike, and Shake Mistake decided to make things even more accurate by using an incline treadmill to simulate walking up the mountain. Using an app called Stepl, Shake Mistake hooked up their phone to their computer and placed it in their pocket, making it so that every time they took a step on their treadmill, their character took a step in the 🔥game.
You can check outꦬ exactly how ShakeMistake managed to set this all up in their video embedded above, including the mods they used to make it possible and how they determined the most accurate incline for their treadmill.
Unfortunately, all that effort still ended up with ShakeMistake only taking 🎉around 5,550 steps before they reached High Hrothgar, so they made the extra effort to walk up the entire mountain instead. At the end of their journey, ShakeMistake took a grand total of 8,022 steps to reach the summit, which is 4 miles based on an average p🔴erson's height and walking speed.
It also took the creator roughly an hour and a half of solid incline walking to reach the sumౠmit, wh😼ich makes my calves burn just thinking about it. ShakeMistake is a pretty athletic person too, revolves around working out like fictional characters and doing other strange movement-based challenges while gaming. If even they struggled to make it up the 7,000 Steps, think twice about attempting it yourself.
One of the all-time greats, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim redefined the concept of the Western RPG. With countless awards under its belt and releases on almost every platform imaginable, you'll find yourself engrossed in a colossal open world in your role as the Dragonborn. You must face your destiny and save the land from a formidable foe.
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