When Kurt J. Mac began his incredible digital odyssey on March 28, 2011, probably not even he imagined that he would become the protagonist of one of the most extraordinary and absurd feats in the history of video games. For fourteen and a half years, this American gamer has tirelessly walked through the infinite landscapes of Minecraft with only one goal: to reach the legendary Far Lands, the theoretical edge of a world that seemed to have none. On Sunday 4 October, after 852 episodes recorded and streamed, Mac finally succeeded in the feat that many considered impossible.

The Far Lands are nothing more than a glitch in the Minecraft code, a programming error that causes the game world to distort and corrupt when certain extreme coordinates are reached. It was Markus \