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One part of this article takes up walking as a corporeal means of movement, which is one of the technical means of transportation used by Tintin. We present a possible typology of walking in the Tintin stories: it occurs on the moon as well as under water, and in the desert as well as on mountains. For what purpose, however, do the characters walk? The other part of this article shows how this walking is related to questions concerning relational communication (with reference to Tintin in Tibet, a volume about climbing and friendship), incommunication (since walking can also lead to gags involving misunderstandings and confused relationships), and the irony of the object (and even of the setting and decor), which, in Tintin in Tibet, shows that walking is not free of traps that sometimes turn against the walker.