A 3,500-mile walk versus a 35,000-mile cycle -- one adventurer who’s done both considers the blisters, pulled muscles and exhaustion of each
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It’s winter in the Gobi desert.
The sun has set and an icy wind has picked up as I try to pitch my tent.
My feet throb from 12 hours of walking, blisters upon blisters weeping into my socks.
My hands tremble, from exhaustion, as well as cold, as I try to light the cooker for a cup of tea. My cameraman, Leon McCarron looks over to me and asks: “What the hell are we doing?”
It might sound like one of the world’s worst boot camps, but this was my own voluntary trip to walk 3,500 miles through Mongolia and China for National Geographic Adventure Channel.
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