Two Detained in Russia for *WALKING* from Alaska to Siberia

I had not heard about this previously. Apparently, two men are making it their mission to walk around the world, and have just been detained in Russia for having entered the country illegally by crossing over the Bering Strait (the small strip of water - currently ice - separating Alaska from eastern Siberia). The Russians appear to be in the right to do so - the pair did not alert the authorities about this trip before setting out, so local law and border enforcement had no way to tell these two apart from drug traffickers or smugglers. But they are still hoping to continue their trip which began on the southern tip of South America.

This is also somewhat poetic, since it is supposed the ancestors of modern Eskimos and native Americans may have crossed over to the New World via the same Bering Strait.