Chalo: The movie. Himalayan Motorcycle Adventure. Riding highest roads in the world.

Yes, we are at Sydney International Airport heading to Bangkok on our way to Malaya. I have my trusty companion, the duck, but we have arrived at the JP Vasant Continental in New Delhi and are enjoying the luxuries of five-star accommodation. before we embark on our

adventure

, a trip to the Himalayas and I have James here. Any connector. Any apprehensions about our journey ahead. None at all. Pure Sydney excitement. No

adventure

begins here. Without a doubt, you will give us a good walk through it. Highlights of New Delhi, Tocas admin, yes, for pizza, my friend, yes, happy, yes, Booya RvR in Dharamsala, translated in D, that means place of worship.

We are in a small town about 20 kilometers from Dharamsala and it is called McLeod Ganj and that. It actually translates as little Lhasa, this is the home of the Dalai Lama. We expect a lot of rain today. There is a monsoon trough that has been arriving in northern India and it is as if we have been there since yesterday. It's been raining all day yesterday. we wait another 50 millimeters today we are going for a short trip we take our bikes we have a look at Bicester and the tanks are still working on them we have a carriage under the building we are staying in today Mint, our tour guide Deepak, really experienced guys , they did a lot of tours with other companies and joined old tours about 18 months ago.

They joined old tours because from their travel experience in India, they are the most professional, most organized and have girlfriends all over the

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. and that's the reason I ventured out eight times and joined him to try to make these tools. We also received some instructions on how to mount, where to mount the interesting Samsung. Some of the interesting tips were to avoid using the front brake and i. I'm not entirely sure if that's to cater for less experienced people who are very familiar with using the front brakes and slippery conditions on a

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or if it's just the way people here and if you brake too fast someone will come behind. side of your body, anyone we will discover today yes, also the writing position, this is something interesting, we have a team of ten cyclists, our guide and nine and our team, and the process is to always look through the rear view. mirror and see the cyclist behind and for some reason you lose the cyclist behind your stop and if for some reason the cyclist in front of you disappears and you can't see him and he also can't see you inside your stop and then Deepak will come to find us so that's the theory.

We'll see how we go today and the biggest challenge. I think from my perspective this tour is going to be how I handle the altitude and we're going to go up to about 5600 meters to get to the top. The plane, depending on how we do it, could go up to 5700, getting into some high speed territory is probably the part before we calmed down and I don't think it's going to get much faster for some time to get here, beautiful scenery. a lot of water and I suspect there is nothing more water, more careful, the temperatures would also drop at this time, it is around 20 degrees, but in reality they are human, even going at 40k, they only get a natural movement of air to make it comfortable .

We had a great day of Riding yesterday everyone got quite familiar with the role on Phil's fantastic bike. It is ideal for these four conditions. This slow stroke takes you everywhere. Some of the writing has been quite complicated. and tight lines and all the traffic once again in both directions, all at the same time on either side of the road, which is a little scary in some cases, but we met you, you navigate them and are ready for more action, The rain has not let up. We had a pretty good day yesterday once you got down a little further, as always on these types of trips things change daily and unfortunately it has rained too much in the Himalayas and the route we want to take towards Chamba. and calah, the particular pass in the back, there are too many landslides and you can't get through, we heard of a group that had left a few days before and got stuck there and no one has been able to contact them exactly where they are, so we have We have to do the trip we had planned in reverse, so today we will go to Manali and spend two nights there, which is about 250 kilometers, but apparently it will take you about seven or eight hours of travel. an alternating break at such a slow pace again probably 40 50 woods now if you are lucky avoiding the cows and everything else on the road during the rain, when do we start having fun?

Oh, I have 185 left, yes, we had already done 185. I wanted almost two hours to make 50 complaints, so 25 plumbers per hour, 250 km is that 10 hours. A recycled technical model totally becomes my back button to keep my glove a little drier. The Alamelu right up here I noticed a little bit of squeaking in the rear wheel. and I thought no so I mentioned it to my tour guide yes deeper and no sir I mention it there they are taking it apart and doing more repairs now that's service except the new one on the left and the old one Bearing to the right, there's not much left of The Little Course, so the last town we passed through was called Mandi, so we're about three and a half hours from Manali.

Now the temperature should be, I guess it's probably only around 25 or 26, but I really have a hundred percent humidity. I'm wet and not very cold, but now I'm cold too. Oh, the district police have left Manali. I guess I'm not sure where, but hoping to leave with a package. I'm looking pretty sick around here, happy, definitely, some of these pads have been waiting. two hours, we've been here at home, my God, we wanted an adventure, I understand, this is exactly what it is, man, a plan B, Plan C, plan D, who knows if we'll make it to Fanny, even today, work never It stops, doesn't it?

The work never stops. every day you have to do something, you sure want to be with this man, that's your first mistake, we'll see, okay, there are four other cyclists, no, no, the cyclists choose Tim, we have been in a couple of days Banali. The weather has been really fantastic after all the heavy rain and now we are going to joke around, but again plans have to be changed again, there is another landslide in the mountains and the weather week allows you to forget another story, even the people help , come on. guys first what hakuna matata whatever is not right so the road turns to the right and obviously falls to the right side he was coming from the left side between two trucks at that point he doesn't remember much but he rode from the edge, walked all the way down, He only heard him wake up with the bicycle in his pocket.

Thanks, Doug, and he has a small head, so he probably has a bit of a concussion and has a stretch on his right side, but other than that he's fine and they've recovered from some broken bits, but very lucky, boy, very lucky, would be one of the old riders so maybe just heat exhaustion from going through this muddy section, yes yes they get cold, they may have taken that off. but he doesn't, he doesn't actually remember it, he just remembers waking up his bike on top of him at the bottom, cool guys, I'm carrying a sports bike through all of this, it's not a bike with a trailer, it's one bought at all rules to bury and everything, we have a top rider, yes we have total chaos somehow, there is some kind of rhyme or reason to who goes first, now they are only letting some of the bikes go through, our group is spread out , we rephrase every Occasionally we meet again, families do the next section, but we are lucky to pass where we are now, shaniyah, amazing view of the views, we are at about 3000 meters right now, so always and when you don't try hard. to be okay back there where we got stuck in the mud and everything and I was exhausted it was about two and a half thousand so I guess we have less oxygen again and then we'll stop here and then.

Look where we go from there. I also have a camera crew here. They want to film something, yes, so now they are going to blow up a section of the road, so they cut us off and then they won't let us go any further. Alright, we found out where they planted the explosives right next to that big rock. Well, what are they called? My name on Instagram. Okay, we will definitely follow you. I am Rica from Bangalore so we both met on this trip. You're supposed to be what Union is and how many miles we've driven, so now they let a small group through at a time, so they probably know about 20 or 30 cars and then if there are any motorcyclists among them, they let us through in At the same time, I guess there is still rhyme or reason, they rhyme and reason to everything that is happening right now.

We are very lucky to have very mild temperatures. I'm guessing it's probably 20 degrees. This is the main part of the rock. they slid and just as those big trucks were passing a little further the side of the mountain started to come down which stopped all traffic and they were able to determine if that part would slide a little further yeah it's all pretty scary it was a sight . Backing up a bit, keep an eye on the hillside there if it rains. I mean, this would just block things completely and you'd have a big overhang here on the road as well, it's not very comfortable to stand here, more vibration on the road.

I'm happy with the direction. of this not condemned Oh, a lot Oh, well in the section about what's enough with gays in trouble right now yeah, if you get the chance, right? I'm at about 3600 meters right now. My head hurts, but I've had it for most of it. In the morning I have been hit by taking pills, we will see how we go, we still have to climb higher. I've had enough of this, I think today, but anyway, I also ran out of water, so I'm not entirely sure what the next plan of attack will be other than my pig foot.

I hit a big rock and it fell off, so now I'm

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with one foot on the crankcase and the other foot on the footrest. Anyway, that's what we have now and a cloud is approaching. Look, we are going on a difficult road here I think, and the road keeps going up or up, just turned it into a Rohtang Pass and some other riders came out of the other one. side, but we still have a long wait guys, so we'll see how we go, someone kind, I wonder, I admit, but many of us by identity we have the power of the locals who are repairing the road, but against the stones in the potholes trying to redo the walls, it's amazing how they do it, it pays for itself as they go and then it rains again and notice that the folding cart is doing a great job.

Thank you very much so this is passport control so when you get off the mountain go here and sign in and let them know you are the bike etc so at this stage I don't know if anyone else has arrived from the group now , but I'm here until I do the first one and then make some decisions about where we go from there. We're supposed to be on the boats tonight, it's 5:30 in the afternoon right now and there's probably another probably 40 kilometers to disperse, let's not do that just to zero and I passed the Rohtang Pass, I need to open it, it's the first one . time in four days that it has actually been open and open there have been people waiting on the

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literally sleeping in their cars that entire period passes by missing eight of our friends who have not crossed paths at all times class we think the whole trip is in a bit of a mess we're thinking what to do so hopefully we'll find a place where we have some connection call them and try to replant so yeah it's a mess but yeah what do we do?

There has been no power, there has not been. Bowles phone connections I think the last four days, so yeah, what are you doing in a majestic place like the Himalayas with snow-capped mountains everywhere? This is the time to go back to meditating together and the rest of the group, man, she gets through it, but the chaos is that we're trying to figure out how to get through it. They arrived right at two, around nine. One, what is 9:30? Now, around nine, they had to end up going through the checkpoint somewhere. Around midnight it's crazy, but I'm glad we're all back together and now that the journey continues, there's still no way you'll have to keep going and try to negotiate with some locals to get some fuel before continuing our journey. journey.

That's good, good news. Hey, other women, the other time, their bike broke. He treats her so badly. If you look very, very, very, very carefully, you might discover that he is somewhere over there. Yes, exactly,

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too hard, he broke his bike and now we have to leave. him here, I mean, it's sad, but what are you doing? I guess if we're going to leave one person behind you, we choose well, look, we have two ovens so we can know that at least we have one left over 5,000 meters, yeah. everyone doing crazy Hitler, we have 5 hours writing code and it's around 3:30 so it will be late at night again riding into the dark.

Oh, the store actually came out of the gearbox here, the Egyptian, okay, this will be a taste for the local.Mechanics, hell, it seems like Ivan was braking a lot. I went to brake and James wasn't paying attention and he came and crashed between us and took me and Ivan out, yeah I think Ivan is worse for using a really bad leg, maybe my might be broken, it happens, okay it happens, I may have broken my fingers, you too, which one I looked up and you guys stopped or slowed down, I did it, I even stopped suddenly, I went around him to stop in front of him, there's my surveillance time.

The incident must have been exactly two minutes five, but yes, be careful, because the cabin is so we can take off our shoes. No, no, I'm not taking off my shoe. It's okay, it's okay. The good thing about fingers is that there is nothing we can do about them other than just wrap them. get up and take them tomorrow, okay, I mean my backpack, I think I have compression bandages, okay, say how your thumb is, thumbs, what fingers these two seem to be, mostly, time is 25, you're probably fine with just hold it like that. that, for now, yes, and the only reason to bandage it is simply to say don't take it against you, based on your understanding at this stage, of everyone who is talking around you and who actually made the call for help as any.

Know? Okay, can someone come and stand here so the shadow covers someone? Hello, I have someone stand here so that the shadow falls on him, so stay here so that the show covers his face. Okay, deeper, do you know if there are any? way to communicate with anyone outside to ask for help we will need a medical service and a half Saddam and you know where the army man is how many seven kilometers is it okay to dress Ivan here is this plan ready there is an Ivan camp Ivan there is a camp of the army we had seven kilometers from here the plan is to take you in the car.

Okay, take you to the military camp to find out if there is a doctor there. Yes, at least see where we can get first aid. Yeah, if that doesn't work, then. We will move on to the next stage and we have to go to Lane, which is a longer route. Well, I can tell you that the last 24 hours have been more adventures than we expected. Ivan ended up having a really bad compression on his foot, so I managed to get him to a medical camp where some clones off the road bandaged him up, that's all I could do now.

I have to cut the Boonton as part of the process, put him on morphine and try to dull the pain that James ended up breaking which was actually straining his three fingers on his left hand, so they were able to wrap it too, that means both riders can't continue for a long time and decided to also return with Ivan to help him on his trip back to Australia, so the situation as it is now is last night at Ivan and James' house along with Deepak and when the drivers took the delay of the vehicle support, we are teaming up with another group of vintage cyclists, a French group, and we will accompany them. em and we'll all get together and go to bed and that's where Deepak will join the tool again with our smaller group and we have to find a way to get the other guys the trans to stay at 5500, 20 meters out there, about it . is having his challenges with altitude mind obviously his concentration changes so dramatically and possibly there could have been the reason for yesterday's accident as well and everyone seems to have some level head, kind of chewing gum, taking painkillers every four to six hours, yes, too many. and yes, it's twelve thousand feet above sea level, so it's a couple of thousand feet lower, so I hope Worf is better at that stage and I guess as the days go by we'll start to acclimatize a bit. plus at these this altitude Wow, this is our

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pass yet at something like five thousand three hundred and twenty yards and meters above sea level and we've been at the four thousand five hundred level for several days and I don't know if we're getting getting used to it or not, but it's spectacular, we're at the top of the mountain, we look into the distance, far away, the skid, some bumps just sent the buck to the side and Greg for a six.

To understand, we have these bikes for two days because we only need a change of registration for this area, yes, for the number plates CJK which means Jamaa Jammu Kashmir, which is this region, there is ours and another HP place which was per day. getting close to wait around the 5,000 meter mark and don't I love horses it's those five thousand six hundred five meters well I was having this no fight fight with a kiwi. I'm a little out of breath but I want to thank my wife for encouraging me to go on this trip because it was amazing, uh yeah, it's great to be here and thanks to Adventure Right for organizing the trip for us, that's it, that's good, we're about four thousand five hundred meters and I'm still going to serve Morini, which is probably around fifty thirty forty.

I always want to know what a yak is like and this is a baby, yes it can be a very friendly one, yes what's your name? Disgusting I mean this is one of the smaller lakes and great with the other guys pretty good in fact I would go so far as to say yesterday I would rate it as the best days riding I have ever had it was sensational highly recommend and last night that's the part I missed last night. I don't know, I went for a 5K walk, so, yeah, crazy. I went to the bathroom ten times.

I discovered a new technique for pulling a fire hydrant out of your ass. I'm feeling pretty today, but RJ is really going to ride his bike for the day. Oh. In fact, I'm glad I did, it's so good to be back on the bike after riding in the car for a day, diarrhea, my eyes open all day, 24 hours, we spent the night and somewhere around the In the middle of the fort there is an easier night the day before the Congress. Here and now we are going to Manali today, such a big trip and we are going to pass through the Rohtang pass, phenomenal white, with the beautiful and cool guy, today I write a man's wine, so what do we have to attend?

Oh, I feel better. today Oh, today the guy says it's where we left the bikes and from here on we will basically spend the night in Manali, then take a bus back to Delhi and then everyone will return home or continue their journey, whatever they are doing, but again with the boys. That he had to fly back to Australia I'm really sorry, I can do this last and I hope to see you in more tricks in the future. Well, I don't care, okay, you can continue, this is my video, the reason we are here is to be there. on this wonderful team you depend, of course, I have been in my organized time organizing this trip for us, we really had a great time, we appreciate everyone, if you have done it for us, you have put in the effort, you work late into the night .

Early in the morning we take both flights or drive hundreds of kilometers in the dark in dangerous conditions or smile and milk never ever never complained so just from us we want to thank you very much if you ever did, we hope that's enough. for you, thank you very much for driving that is for all of us that is for you thank you very much well you would really be a good leader thank you very much thank you very much to all of us a lot I am supporting myself and just one more minute why we lost the fear that detects us and the calm that use.

I'd like to thank you for seeing the team and our team back in Australia, they're back for being a fantastic group and being together for the kids of today, it's just adventures. Hopefully, photos or we should have some extras along the way, but in nature everything is already there. I really appreciate the drawing. I love you driving well just for driving with you.