Himalayan Hero "The Return" episode 1 Nepal Royal Enfield Himalayan 450
wow what a job good effort boys yeah have you got oxygen just have a go at the himan 450 would you just getting it done in its sisterland I guess you could call it Nepal [Music] [Applause] you won't Truly find your place in this world without traveling a great [Music] distance 12 years ago I came to the Himalayas with my dad a journey meant to bring us back together as father and son dad always wanted to backpack through India but I turned it into a motorcycle Adventure I led a complete novice into the wildest terrain on Earth I dragged my dad 42,000 km through the Himalayas it was the hardest thing he'd ever done and the most challenging time we'd ever spent together as a kid my dad was my hero but time changed that I was hard on dad in the Himalayas he was patient with me even with altitude sickness you will never recover lost time especially time spent with a child I wanted my hero back I wanted to see Dad the way I did as a child our story of father and son was no fairy tale and even the most most epic journey on Earth could not heal our past 6 months after our ride through the Himalayas dad was diagnosed with misoa and 2 years later he was [Music] gone you can't change your perspective on life when you keep looking at it from the same angle the further I travel away from what I know the clearer I see what I must change find patience with and what I must be grateful for I have returned to the Himalayas alone only now I am a father with two children of my own I hope to make sense of it all make peace with the relationship I never had with my father and understand what it really means to be the hero and seal a lifetime bond with my children let's do this it's fairly Relentless all this traffic it's coming at you from all directions from scooters to trucks how you going on mate just chill I mean like people just walking down the road among the cars the trucks Catman do Hy Catman do look at these things they're so awesome what a weapon Junior's on board here Nepali life finally turned off that Main Highway out of catm do it's got a lot more intense since I was here last and all the more credit to the old boy the complete novice he was just riding through all that [ __ ] especially straight out of Delhi when we started Ah that's a S for S eyes look at that we're heading in the right direction a bit of glacier water right there could almost go a swim but I won't I'll just get moving I'm still on track all right it seems I'm not jungle uh I see it I'm not sure where I got off track there but this is kind of where I need to be yeah okay I'm back on track I like this kind of Nepal it's not quite the seething Humanity of India but it's um just got a nice feel to it look at those Fresh Veggies chickens just cruising The Joint welcome to aat rural municipality hello how are you are fine where are you from Australia Australia yeah okay go thank you is this uh what is the [Music] octane me octane 90 octane unleaded octane 100 100 it's rice fuel nicely ricing fuel for going fast now today where will go from here to the mountain oh my God Alone yes alone I'm not alone I have my himal himan yeah have you got oxygen no but it needs you know I know where is it gone what's with all the smoke no occasionally if you keep oxygen yourself then if you go high altitude no I'm not I'm not walking and then to Mustang upper Mustang L yes I know lighter you know oh my God you're a fit strong man but you have a stick oh because you know my uh this leg is operated before operation were you very weak were you a soldier got Warrior yeah yeah and mirrors honestly mirrors just need to go in the bin I'm transitioning into the foothills of the Himalayas leaving behind the chaos of the the urban sprawl life is simpler up here more peaceful and [Music] calming that was a big day on the bike but what an epic day one far out It's All Coming Back to Me Now [Music] [Music] I've ridden solo all over the world since Dad passed and rarely does he pop into my thoughts during these Adventures but coming back to the Himalayas is different for the last time I was here we were together and now it feels strangely obvious that I'm alone [Music] [Applause] wow what a job good effic [Applause] boys holy [ __ ] [Music] [Applause] [Music] on what a life Hy protected and exposed all at the same time I noticed these Villages are like at a minimum of 100 m or so up from the riverbed cuz you can just imagine in the real torrent anyone who builds their house too close is just going to get washed away deleted the hikers a lot of people walking this track that's what they do this is what I do just chilling now I'm starting to see the altitude I'll check in in a bit see exactly what we've climbed up to cuz I can see the snow caps and it is getting colder we're going to start climbing okay I want elevation wow yep I knew it I could feel it 2,300 M all right traffic bit of a traffic jam should I take the boys on the inside sorry stay to the right please I'm coming past yeah the boys Legends [Music] manang Valley the town itself is a popular acclimatization point for tracking the famous anaer circle [Music] [Applause] situated less than 40 kilometers from the border of China this whole valley seems influenced by Tibetan culture fascinating [Music] [Music] yeah I'm feeling okay 3,600 M feeling a little bit Spacey to be honest but um heart rate's good in fact the only time I get little spikes is when I'm messing around setting up cameras but as far as riding goes in a flow heart rate's sitting pretty so it's good and the bike speaks for itself getting the job done that's for the bike look Royal Enfield I'll be honest about 2 years ago they actually contacted me one of the Legends in there he's quite high up in marketing has been following myology for quite some time and they track me down and look it's just taken a couple of years for it to come to reality but um I've effectively dropped Tools in Australia and landed here in the Himalayas in c m do and just whack my tires on as you saw they've supplied me the bike pieced together a route that they think I should do and um yeah I'm on solo Mission look it's the sort of thing that it would be epic to do with a friend with another professional Rider with a group but when Dad he he passed away like 3 years after our ride here and uh um it just felt like the right thing to do to continue this story solo I feel like he's here in spirit you know I've I've been getting some nice memories come back despite a lot of our trip it was a bit of a SLO with the old boy and yeah I don't know this Journey's a like time to reflect on that [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] h [Music] [Music] [Music] for me some of the most fascinating things and places when traveling the world are just the Lesser known little places of the world that just you see the real life just bubbling away it's fascinating you know you don't have to be wowed by all the stuff that you're chasing money paying tickets lining up all this so-called bucket list must see traveling the world is exactly that is seeing the world as raw beautiful [Music] [Music] [Music] unless you're hiking the road to manang is a oneway in and backtrack out it's been a short and sweet visit but to continue my route I must drop back down the mountain and start heading across to POA gateway to the upper must just have a go at the himan 450 would you just getting it done in its sisterland I guess you could call it Nepal I'll get around him here look at this joint back on the black top the garden indeed at this time of year Farmers across India are burning crop stalks to clear their land it's just getting worse adding to that forest fires across all of Nepal due to low rainfall has trapped a blanket of smoke up against the foothills of the Himalayas it seems Royal Enfield have anticipated the conditions of this leg and treated me to a rockstar pit stop in [Applause] POA suspension Ridge walk pretty windy so because I don't have a guide police are just like what's this guy doing solo Adventure do you need a husband yeah yeah yeah yeah that's true that's true I don't need she has boyfriend but she needs she has many boyfriends I don't have it's still looking for a good work yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's true it's true sh
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