Simon Richardson and James Lowsley-Williams are heading to Nepal to tackle the Annapurna Circuit; a 230 km trail that ci | dG1fdFZsdlN5eXlQMXc
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00:02 - The altitude, the climbing,
00:05 and the sheer toughness of the terrain
00:08 is sapping every bit of energy.
00:10 Hurting the legs.
00:12 It's a proper long bus.
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00:23 10th highest mountain in the world,
00:34 and one of the most dangerous.
00:36 And there it is, touching distance.
00:39 Oh my God, that is genuinely the biggest drop.
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00:53 Now this is like nowhere else.
00:59 It's completely unique.
01:00 This is absolutely breathtaking at every turn.
01:03 Real cold.
01:04 Oh yeah, over the bridge.
01:08 - From Manang, there's no vehicle at all.
01:15 - So if we have any issues at all,
01:18 we've got to sort ourselves out.
01:19 - We pray Indra, we also pray Abu Dhizm,
01:22 so we pray everyone.
01:24 - Oh my God.
01:25 - Cover all our bases, all right.
01:26 Hank has had enough of bike riding.
01:29 - Oh, that's all right.
01:31 - 35 kilos.
01:32 - All right guys, we ready to move?
01:35 - Oh, fail, fail.
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01:50 Doesn't say much.
01:51 Let's put you in the red up here.
01:55 That, that gets hard.
02:00 - He went down?
02:04 - Yeah.
02:05 - He's okay?
02:06 (beep)
02:08 - Whiteout conditions now.
02:13 It's really disconcerting,
02:15 because I'm not actually sure what lies to my right.
02:19 Snowing pretty hard.
02:24 Visibility's not that good, temperature's dropped.
02:26 We're all absolutely broken, totally broken.
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