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00:01six months ago five teams took part in an unforgettable competition
00:09let's go we got this rapino rapino up there you see that oh this is sick an epic race of
00:17over 12 000 kilometers from west to east look at this incredible yeah let's do that on a new
00:26build in manchester here what we made it from the sun-drenched bustling streets of sicily
00:34that's a view and a half that you know screensaver vibes to the vast unforgiving wilderness of mongolia
00:41i love how flat it is into like absolute murder they tested their own stamina and endurance
00:53can i have your skates normal so we've lost our lead across eight countries rich in culture
01:02and experience today's celebration is called a circumcision party sick i don't think i've ever
01:15seen anything so cool in my life but only one team could claim victory three two one
01:24and take home the 20 000 pound prize
01:31now for the first time since the finish line they reunite
01:38to share their stories i don't think i was thinking anything other than can't believe i'm here
01:43to reveal how the race changed their lives we wanted to make sure this didn't break us
01:49and it's actually made us stronger high five i wanted to do that for a long time
01:57margot she's very open very free and i've taken that on board
02:04and to marvel at the process undertaken to bring their extreme journeys to the screen
02:10we just need to make sure we know where all the teams are at all times
02:13they're like the brain of race across the world what a job to be able to do
02:17as they all relive
02:20let's go
02:21their race
02:23come on mom it's right there
02:24come on across the world
02:36having arrived home in the uk almost six months ago
02:39all five teams are coming back together
02:44hi folks
02:45hi guys
02:45i'm gonna pop some microphones on you
02:47yep
02:47this is very professional none of this on the road
02:51first to arrive
02:52siblings katie and harrison
02:54ready to see their fellow competitors for the first time since leaving the race
03:01i can't wait to see the guys
03:02i'm so excited to see them
03:04how you doing
03:06the second duo to join father and daughter andrew and molly
03:12hello
03:13i can't get up to them
03:15this is why i'm so excited
03:15hi
03:19good to see you
03:19good to see you
03:20that's beautiful
03:22look at you
03:24good
03:24oh my god it's just being wild
03:26absolutely wild
03:27should we go and do it again
03:28yeah
03:29should we go and do it again
03:31next to walk through the doors
03:33hello
03:35in-laws mark and margo
03:37mark how we doing
03:39it was very good my man
03:40oh look at you
03:41good to see you
03:42good morning
03:43have you been up to any adventures
03:44he's been traveling he got right out
03:47got his rucksack on
03:48did you have a rucksack
03:49yeah
03:49yeah rucksack
03:50in thailand
03:51on his own
03:51on my own
03:52in thailand singapore
03:53yeah
03:53sri lanka
03:54so jealous
03:54and guess who i bumped into
03:56in sri lanka
04:02i did sydney new zealand
04:04and then sri lanka
04:05race really gave me that sense of freedom
04:08so actually i can do a bit more traveling
04:12we bumped into each other
04:13it was it was so good
04:16hi
04:18we're at a five-star hotel
04:20and all we can find to eat is
04:24mongolian vegetable noodles
04:26and
04:27mongolian seafood
04:29right
04:29we cannot escape mongolia
04:32wherever we go
04:33all their food
04:36also back with the group
04:38cousins puja and roshni
04:59and the last pair to join the pack
05:0119-year-old best friends joe and kush
05:05i'll be the last
05:06yeah i think we're the last
05:10good boy jerry
05:11good boy jerry
05:11hey
05:14awesome
05:15good to see you
05:16good to see you
05:17good to see you
05:18good to see you
05:18good to see you
05:18good to see you
05:20your boys your boys
05:23you got very fond of them
05:24didn't you on the trip
05:24they're like our little brothers
05:25they're like our little brothers
05:27so gareth as the people who left early
05:30who do you think between the whole lot of us
05:31who do you think won
05:32who's giving winner energy
05:34we always thought that you two would win
05:37mark and margo yeah
05:38you're always so charming and like full of energy and like you just seem to know everything
05:42like with my dad like i could ask him any question he would just know the answer i feel like
05:45you're exactly the same
05:46oh gosh
05:47who ever won can you please step forward
05:57oh my god i'm so proud
06:02oh my god i'm so proud
06:05oh my god
06:08rosh look looks like a cathedral
06:09these five pairs put their everyday lives on pause and came together for an epic adventure
06:16but it was actually months before they stood on the starting line that they began their journey
06:23they were selected from thousands of application videos
06:27hello everybody it's molly and
06:30daddy
06:31andrew
06:33hello i'm harrison
06:34and i'm getty
06:36we are siblings i'm 22 she's 20
06:39why we want to do it is because we want to see the world
06:42we want to experience things add some spice to life you know
06:45keep it interesting
06:46yeah like experience like different yeah cultures people
06:50hi i'm puja
06:51and i'm roshni
06:52please take us
06:53yeah we would love to go
06:55we really want to go
06:55why do you think we'd be good mark
06:58well we're like chalk and cheese i'm very practical
07:00boring
07:01market just has fun fun fun
07:05and as casting progressed
07:07all shortlisted candidates were brought to london
07:10to test their navigation skills
07:13without phones or cash
07:15and armed only with cryptic clues
07:18ask someone first
07:19yeah yeah unless you've broken my mind
07:21excuse me mate
07:21excuse me
07:22we're in a race at the moment
07:24and we just need some help finding out where our location is
07:26molly's taking charge
07:27i follow her
07:32we're in a competition you wouldn't take us to golden hind
07:35does anyone know if this is southbound
07:37this is southbound
07:38no it's been good it's southbound
07:40just ask people it's easier
07:42we're doing a challenge
07:43and these ladies are filming for this challenge
07:46to see if i can get any for my birthday
07:47she's 59 today
07:48i've got my passport and my bag if you want to see 59
07:50yeah
07:50oh this is sick
07:53no way
07:54that's sick
07:5521 minute
07:56what
07:57yes
07:57nice
07:59well thank you
08:00amazing
08:00four months after selection
08:03they arrived at the airport
08:05having packed for every eventuality
08:08with no idea where in the world they were heading
08:11oh
08:11their destination revealed just hours before departure
08:16you'll be flying to
08:18palermo in sicily
08:20oh my god
08:21so in italy
08:22we're gonna have pizza tonight
08:24oh
08:25oh
08:26that's brilliant
08:26that's brilliant
08:27that's good yes
08:27yes
08:29in the historic city of palermo
08:31i'm actually really nervous can't they
08:34see me
08:34they all came face to face for the very first time
08:38here we go
08:39oh god they're looking fit and young
08:41good to meet on margot
08:42margot i'm joe
08:44oh i can see him
08:45hi
08:45hi
08:46hi guys
08:47so i'm guessing everyone's here to win
08:48i have a saying
08:49seconds force loser
08:51oh
08:51okay
08:52suddenly i'm just like i need to win this
08:55that's like drawing the enemy lines now
08:57will we get this thing started
08:58yeah
09:00yeah
09:08when we first met you guys in palermo it was like that that couple minutes of hi guys and then
09:14it was off
09:14i don't think i was thinking anything other than can't believe i'm here
09:18yeah yeah
09:19and i can't believe i'm about to do this and this backpack's heavy
09:22i hypnotized myself to believe that backpack was really light didn't i
09:25she did
09:26but as soon as i got home
09:27what the hell
09:30after the first leg i thought casey and harrison was just going to blow us out the water
09:36you know day and a half ahead of the first leg you know it's unbelievable
09:40it was it was very intimidating to have you guys so far ahead because we didn't know anything about you
09:44you're a myth
09:47but then when we met you harrison you still impressed your understanding of budgeting and timings and and like this
09:54overview that was almost like a computer
09:56felt like that
09:57that couldn't turn out
09:58that is him yeah
10:01i've got a toiletry bag the size of a house
10:05yeah
10:06well i've got all the useful stuff i've got alarm clocks compass
10:10so you just bring you know the stuff you need and i'll bring the stuff for both of us
10:14yeah
10:14oh this you're getting it now
10:17katie and older brother harrison started the race with very different attitudes to money and planning
10:24you definitely took the role with the budget you're in a deep emotional relationship with your calculator
10:30we have spent 8.5 percent this leg of our total budget
10:35which is very very good
10:38it works being a tight bastard works
10:43pocket meat and cheese
10:46really dry
10:48really dry
10:48really dry is an understatement
10:49like i've just stuck my face in the sahara desert
10:52i took it very personally as my responsibility to get us to that finish line
10:58and it kind of soothed me to constantly be on thinking about it
11:01oh look at this
11:03this is not good for the budget
11:04i've got a shot glass collection at home
11:07who buys all this shit
11:11me
11:13that really took over for me
11:14like i just couldn't help but uh
11:16be like absorbed by the race and the race environment and not the experiences
11:19although the race environment is about winning
11:22it's also about
11:23the unique way of traveling
11:25that you're doing by racing
11:27i genuinely loved every second of it
11:29you know i didn't maybe i didn't have that drive because i was just enjoying it so much
11:33like i just honestly had the best time ever
11:35i think everyone will agree you were pure sunshine the whole way through
11:38i think one day you were like you were sitting with a glass of prosecco at checkpoint being like
11:42i could be at work on a monday
11:46as they ventured further east
11:48katie's desire to pause and take it all in
11:51feels very much
11:53once in a lifetime
11:55started to shift harrison's perspective on the race
11:59i'm on a horse
12:01in kyrgyzstan
12:03it's incredible
12:05that is just ridiculous
12:07this is stunning
12:19Birmingham
12:20ha ha ha ha ha
12:21picture of sesco express
12:24tesco
12:25tesco yeah tesco
12:27he was so chuffed with his picture of tesco express
12:30i know such a lovely moment but funny
12:32why am i sat in a tree house in turkey looking at a picture of tesco
12:37that was kind of when i sort of let go a little bit and stopped and started to appreciate and
12:43spend time with people and that's really where i came away with the sort of the mantra that okay this
12:46is actually what the race is about
12:47you know i love it
12:48no no no no no
12:50you sure
12:51oh
12:51what has he given you
12:53it's a medal
12:54ah half marathon
12:57we are friends
12:58well harrison actually sent something didn't you
13:01Yeah, I have got in contact with the guy that sent me a medal and sent him sending my one
13:07back a little
13:07sort of UK hamper box
13:11You've come back and you've gone like I need to travel and I do think you have it has like
13:17changed you
13:18I have to say that probably do see the value in it the monetary value in it now
13:22I've not spent my own money yet on it
13:25But it might happen I guess you know I've learned that you it firstly it's not like a holiday
13:29Well, I call it a bit holiday sometimes maybe if you do it Margo's way
13:35Their growth as a team came from learning to open up to one another
13:40Deepening a bond in ways Katie had always wanted
13:44And I feel I just felt like why is this affecting me and it's not affecting him like how does
13:49he seem so okay about it all I?
13:53definitely think the race has helped me like
13:57Verbalize like my feelings because before like I might have felt like I wanted to say something to you
14:02You know something bothering me if I was upset or something
14:06But I physically could not get the words out
14:09Whereas now I think because yeah the race is just a really intense environment and you've got to be supportive
14:15for each other
14:16I just wanted to say
14:18like I suppose thank you for
14:21For being there and being
14:23Well, that's really nice to hear actually
14:26I now just feel a lot more supported
14:29Yeah, like the race gave me a better understanding of you and you a better understanding of me
14:33Yeah, but it but you do grow and you have to and it's a life experience and you have to
14:36accept it as a life experience and realize and
14:39Take something from us and and you did yeah
14:42Yeah
14:44Okay, it's good one for your hinge profile house. It makes you look really cool. I've got my bag on
14:50there. It feels like I'm going to
14:51Plunge your toilet. It looks like bad. Could you please try and help me?
14:58Together come on
15:00Oh
15:01My god well done my finish line
15:03We wouldn't been able to have it as good of a time with anyone else. It was sort of the
15:08perfect combo and we've got that for life
15:10Yeah, this is breathtaking
15:14Incredible
15:16Oh
15:17Well, look at that one longer
15:18The teams were on the road for 51 days
15:21Absolutely incredible. It's hard to find words isn't it? It is absolutely yeah
15:26With cameras recording their every move
15:29With them a five person team responsible for capturing the general views
15:34Known as the GV crew who filmed the scale beauty and rich variety of the journey
15:42If I want to give up teaching there's one job I would want to have it's the crew they do
15:47all those picturesque shots
15:49And what a job to be able to do
15:50We're shooting Athens out today
15:52We've been up here since half six this morning
15:56Big bank of cloud came in and kind of killed us a little bit
16:00Sometimes it helps it came out and like created all these shadows across the city
16:04But thankfully the weather has picked up
16:06Sun is shining
16:12The team that take these incredible shots really get to be creative and think about how to capture this beautiful
16:20area in the best way possible
16:21Which is what you see on the screens
16:23So they essentially inspire the whole of the UK and whoever watches the race across the world to want to
16:29go to these places by the way they capture it on camera
16:33Wow
16:34Look at this
16:36We're going to shoot this time-lapse over the mountains
16:39It is beautiful here
16:40The landscape is incredible
16:47And technically they've got so much stuff right
16:49They've got long distance cameras, wide shot lenses, they've got close-ups, they've got everything
16:55Yeah, they smashed it
17:00Alongside the GV crew, there are three more vital teams dovetailing seamlessly to bring the race to life
17:07Combs check
17:10In London, a 20-strong team of producers, researchers and production management
17:16Following evolving stories and potential routes
17:19You've got someone who is relaying back every decision, everything we say to the head office in London
17:26Yeah
17:26Who, obviously on UK time
17:30It feels like the brain of
17:33Control centre
17:33Control centre
17:34There you go
17:35I'm thinking about it medically
17:36But they're like the brain of race across the world
17:38And then you have like the limbs in
17:39Oh God
17:41On location, a small embedded filming crew
17:44Living and breathing every step of the race with each pair
17:48How are you feeling right now?
17:50I think that's your duvet, Aaron
17:52This is the duvet?
17:53That's the smaller one, the bigger one should be the sheer
17:55Oh
17:56You're going to put your lavender spray on it
18:00And finally, the checkpoint crew
18:03Who are one step ahead of the racers
18:05Tracking their every move and planning for all eventualities
18:09I've got Joe and Kush
18:11I've got 10am
18:13Do you think that's right?
18:13Yeah, I think they're about 60 minutes away
18:15There's a whole team that stays in the checkpoint
18:17And they've got their own job to do
18:19If they go the most efficient way
18:21They'll get a car all the way up to there
18:23But there are various other points that they could get dropped on the hill
18:28They are responsible for setting up and testing the final run to each new checkpoint hotel
18:34Oh my god
18:36Yay!
18:37Hotel Emily's
18:39Oh my god
18:40There we go
18:43And they're to support each team on their arrival
18:46Say hi Hannah, give me the camera
18:49What's your role Hannah?
18:51My role is to look after cars when they're at checkpoint
18:54Make sure they're fed, watered, happy, healthy
18:58And that's it
19:00Once the planning's done, it's over to the race
19:05Unpredictable, unscripted
19:06And whatever happens, whenever teams arrive
19:09The crew has to be ready
19:11We are here at the finale location
19:13And we are just waiting for one of the teams to come in
19:16Where the spit is, there's a direct line of sight
19:19So we don't want the cars to see us
19:21So we're having to lie down and hide
19:23Voiced for the signal
19:28Go, go, go, go, everyone
19:31That is a spit isn't it?
19:33Yeah
19:34When you're coming in to checkpoint
19:36It gets really exciting, doesn't it?
19:38Ah, here we go
19:41I'm about to have sent messages
19:43Into these devices for the runway
19:45The clues
19:46Find the amphitheatre
19:52And the way for the instructions
19:53I need to find them in at rare
19:55I think it's at the other side of the bridge
19:57Yeah
19:58Okay, ready, power everything up
20:03Is this right?
20:04Yeah
20:04Oh
20:06There are two blocks in there
20:08Yeah
20:12Bonnie
20:14Marvisal, the hotel's here, Margot, it's here
20:16Yes
20:17Can you tell them things fired?
20:18Copy that, we're rolling
20:20Here it is, John
20:24Please, sign in here
20:26Please, sign in here
20:28What?
20:44As the checkpoint is approached
20:46The reality of each precious minute falls into focus
20:50Lads, we're going to beat you
20:52No way
20:54Come on, Mark
20:55With every team throwing their all into the chance to climb the leaderboard
21:00Hey, go speed up, lad
21:02You okay, Poshy?
21:03I'm good, Poshy
21:04Faster, faster
21:05We've got a checkpoint to get to
21:07Get me out of this taxi and ready to run
21:10Traffic jump
21:12It just felt like tables turned so quickly
21:16We can't afford to make any mistakes and we've already made one
21:19The crew can give you absolutely no help
21:21And it can be very easy to go like
21:23Guys, you're giving me nothing here
21:25But they can't because then it's not fair
21:27It's a taxi joke
21:29Don't ask what's going on because they don't know
21:32They had to walk through every stupid decision we made
21:35Knowing we were going in the wrong direction
21:37Well, actually, we're kind of going back on ourselves
21:39Yeah
21:40Oh, God
21:42But having the lead is one bus journey away
21:45Big money moves
21:46Big money moves, little money moves
21:47It's right there
21:49Yes, Poshy
21:50God
21:51Hope and pray, no?
21:55We were looking out for the boys
21:56Because we noticed you becoming more savvy and more competitive
22:00Because you said from the first
22:02We're in it, we're really seriously in it to win it
22:04But there was more and more like, we're not going to talk to you
22:07You could be a threat
22:08And it was, these guys
22:09You guys, because you're clever, that's the thing
22:11Wolf, you're very, very, like
22:12But quite quickly, you were like, zoom
22:14Here are the boys
22:15How are we?
22:17Do you know where you're going now?
22:18Yeah
22:18Right, you guys, you got a plan?
22:19Yeah
22:20We have a plan, yeah
22:21Are we allowed to know where you're heading to?
22:24They're trying to present funds
22:25They're trying to get information out
22:27See you boys
22:28We'll see you guys soon
22:29Take care
22:30Oh, no, best friends last night
22:33Sworn enemies today
22:34Jack, whoa
22:34Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
22:36We were there to win, really
22:37We are, we were there
22:38I've been saying this from the start
22:39We both have been saying this from the start
22:41We were there to win
22:42Well, I think I have to win
22:43You just want to do better than everyone else
22:45Oh, we brought back to the point
22:47Five and sixteen, really
22:50We're ten short
22:51Is there any way we could change money?
22:53I don't know
22:53There was a situation where
22:56Molly and Andrew were ten euros short
22:58You wouldn't give us a tenner for a tenner, no?
23:00Oh, that's a shame
23:01Thought that
23:02That's a shame
23:04And I was like, nah, realistically
23:05We're here to win
23:06I feel like we should not belong
23:08No
23:08Oh, lad, what are you trying
23:11You were very, very down to just lend them a bit of money
23:15I'm glad we didn't give any money
23:16I'm glad
23:17Set a precedent
23:18I'm busy
23:20I would very much say that your experience was to win
23:23And you really enjoyed it
23:24And the whole way through we were very competitive, obviously
23:27But we were forced, we were trying our hardest
23:29We were still coming in
23:31And like we were constantly back of the pack, back of the pack
23:34And it was about staying in it
23:35People talk about strategies
23:37If we had any strategy coming into this
23:39Was to stay in the game as long as possible
23:41And then try and win it at the end
23:42And that's what we did
23:44Yeah
23:44Were you two right behind each other
23:46At the final break?
23:47We were not going there
23:47Not speaking to you again
23:48That's it, we were finished
23:50It's alright, that's okay
23:52The gloves are off
23:53No
23:54But there's a good amount of luck
23:56And like, I think like the favourite moments for me
23:59And it sounds so sad
24:00But it was when like connecting transport just worked out
24:03Honest to God
24:04Like, I just couldn't relax until I knew what transport was going on
24:08Elimination leg
24:09Mr. Meany made us wait for a bus
24:11I decided on budget terms
24:13That we should wait and get the bus rather than pay the taxi
24:16And we waited three...
24:18Three and a half hours
24:19Three and a half hours for a bus
24:20You should have waited 12
24:22Of course
24:27Smile
24:28Oh
24:30Your shoes get wet
24:31Wet shoe
24:32I love my feet right now
24:33They're very happy
24:36The cousins embarked on the race to step away from the busy careers
24:40They'd worked hard to build
24:41And embrace a more unpredictable way of life
24:46Pepperonchino
24:47Calabrese
24:48This is different
24:49Roche is absolutely smashing it
24:52She's maintained her energy levels
24:54Look at her, she's so cute
24:55Quanto
24:56Quanto
24:57Ha ha ha
25:02What are you doing?
25:03Oh no
25:04Yes you can
25:04Yes you can
25:05Why?
25:05Yes you can
25:08So growing up, you know, we lived like two streets away
25:11We were like very close
25:13But life happens
25:14But life happens
25:15I think the goal of just going on to this
25:17Is we'd both been in our careers for like ten years
25:20And so life gets very intense
25:22And we wanted to do something about that
25:26This guy
25:26He is a guard of the gods
25:29Okay, he's waving
25:31I've always wanted to take time off
25:33But there's always been a reason not to
25:34So I guess race kind of forced us to take the time off
25:37And it kind of, it showed that it's not the end of the world
25:42Where are you going?
25:43Ah!
25:44Oh, sorry
25:46What time is the buff?
25:49Yes!
25:50Yes!
25:50I'm feeling pumped
25:52We're flying high
25:53I think we've handled ourselves really well on this leg
25:56I'm excited, Posh
25:58We're second
26:00We're second
26:03It's been a wake-up call
26:05With family you always think people are going to be around
26:07But actually you need to put in that effort
26:09To make sure you keep that relationship
26:12And, you know, we just, we wanted to make sure this didn't break us
26:15And it's actually made us stronger
26:17Yeah
26:19But their momentum faltered in Turquia
26:22We asked about buses tonight
26:23But unfortunately there wasn't anything available
26:25It gives the other teams time to catch up
26:28And arriving in last at the third checkpoint
26:31Led to their surprise elimination
26:33Please sign in Overleaf
26:35Oh!
26:36Oh my God
26:37We're lost
26:39Oh!
26:46I think when we saw the book
26:49We didn't expect that everybody would have done so well on that leg
26:54But you guys aced it
26:55But saying that, it was a great leg
26:57Like, we had an incredible time
26:59And, honestly, Mongolia was for you guys
27:02Like, I'm so happy that you guys had that adventure
27:05Thank you
27:06Also, we got to go on our own adventure
27:08Yeah
27:09We went on a trip to Vietnam after all of this ended
27:14It was just a great place
27:17Way
27:18We got to have really good food
27:21Get massages
27:22Yeah
27:23We just had our own experience
27:25Yeah
27:26We planned to go away together again
27:27With our husbands
27:28With our families
27:30So, if this had not happened
27:33I don't think we would be doing that
27:34I don't think we would be as proactive
27:36Yeah
27:37You think about, like, what race and travel
27:40Has given each one of us
27:41Has brought you together
27:43And, like, my wife has said to me, like
27:45Who are you travelling with?
27:46All that kind of thing
27:46And I'd say, like
27:47Beautiful girl
27:48Who's an anaesthetist
27:49And I go
27:50I just want Molly
27:51To turn out like you
27:52Mm-mm
27:53And I mean that
27:53Just amazing
27:54And lifelong friends, hopefully
27:56Yeah
27:57Absolutely
27:58We missed you though, honestly
27:59Yeah
28:00We wanted to sign your names in the book as well
28:03Yeah
28:03Oh
28:10That is amazing
28:12For all the teams
28:13This was a journey defined by endurance
28:16And extremes
28:17Look, look, look
28:18Oh, that is really nice
28:19You can see the whole coast
28:21From the sun-baked coastlines of Europe
28:23To the untamed expanse of Central Asia
28:27Oh, my God
28:30Look at this
28:31It is like the wild west mark
28:33Look at this
28:33It is, isn't it? Yeah
28:35Into the sub-zero temperatures of Mongolia
28:38Oh
28:39Feel the cold
28:42Retracing a path steeped in history along the old Silk Road
28:46They encountered a huge variety of people and local customs
28:52My father
28:53Oh
28:53Hello, hello
28:54Nice to meet you
28:55Hello, hello, hello
28:56Hello, nice to meet you
29:08It's just such an extreme, is it?
29:10It just started off in like central mainland Europe
29:13where you had all the comforts, really, of home and then going to just...
29:18It literally... It's mad.
29:20Once you left Europe and went to Kazakhstan,
29:25it was an alien environment.
29:27It was rocky, it was dry, it was arid.
29:30And from that point, it was a completely different journey.
29:34But even from the trains, you must have got to see, like, scenery. Nothing?
29:38There's absolutely nothing. What?
29:40What? It's like being on the moon.
29:42I can't describe it. There is nothing there.
29:45You really, throughout the whole experience, went from one to the other.
29:50Done.
29:51It went from language to no language.
29:54Do you have avto? Car? Machine? Avto? Avto?
29:59That's a transport to no transport. Yeah.
30:02The bus? It's all closed? Yeah, yeah.
30:05Closed, yes.
30:05I found the bus station. It was just a shed.
30:09Holy moly. Traffic jam.
30:12Look at them. Look at them. There's millions of them.
30:14Yeah, I'd say this year, race is very much extreme.
30:17Yeah. That's the word to sum it up.
30:19I think it's just so nice that you just...
30:22You're worried that, ah, they don't speak the same language.
30:24You find a way to communicate, like, whether it's you dancing with everyone or, you know, our man with the
30:31Tesco. Like, you, you, like...
30:33Yeah, you find a common ground.
30:34You'll always find a way to communicate. That was, like, the most beautiful thing ever.
30:38Yeah, yeah.
30:38When we did all these homestays, like, to live and sleep on the same roof, share the food, like, this
30:44is such a privilege.
30:45It's even more of a privilege in my eyes than being able to afford, like, the five-star hotels.
30:50No, they treated us like family.
30:55Oh, my God. You've done that so well. Thank you.
31:02Places that we went were very different to the Western world.
31:05It was a real... It was a culture shock in the coolest way.
31:08This is a really big deal. Oh, my God. There's an eagle.
31:13Hello.
31:14Nice to meet you.
31:14My name is Nazgud.
31:15Nazgud?
31:16Yes.
31:16Kush.
31:17It's nice to meet you.
31:18Your eyes are so beautiful.
31:21Yeah.
31:22It's OK.
31:23I love the outfits.
31:24This is what I think we were both searching for on this journey as a whole, is the experiences that
31:29aren't readily accessible.
31:37It's very bitter.
31:38I quite like it.
31:39Delicious. Look at him delicious.
31:41Good. He's very good.
31:42Yeah.
31:42Yeah.
31:45But when we got to Mongolia, it really got hard for us. We really struggled.
31:51It felt like your choices were kind of taken away from you, because at the start, it was kind of,
31:56do you go by boat? Do you go by train? Do you go by car? Do you go by taxi?
31:59It then just became get there. You couldn't be competitive with each other. You were just being competitive against Mongolia.
32:05Literally.
32:05It's the best way to put it. You were fighting the elements.
32:08I think, like, the temperature swing the whole way we figured out was, like, a 54 degree temperature swing from
32:13hottest to coldest.
32:14And it's just, I was looking forward to the cold. Maybe not that cold. Maybe I wished too hard for
32:21that.
32:21Yeah.
32:21Like, your clothes had to change. Yeah.
32:23Yeah.
32:24Your clothes for Italy, Greece, and wild temperatures. And then all of a sudden, those clothes just kind of...
32:31You should have just thrown them out.
32:32We could have.
32:32Just thrown them out, had less weight to carry.
32:34No, just layering up, layering up.
32:37Mongolia just wore the same outfit every single day.
32:39Yes.
32:39I did.
32:39And all your clothes.
32:40Yeah.
32:41Honestly, did any change your clothes in Mongolia?
32:44Yeah, because I didn't.
32:45No.
32:47But as somebody who's only kind of really gone on family holidays, I really, really struggled with the,
32:53did I have the ability to put a backpack on me and travel in that way?
32:59I always wanted to do it as a child, always wanted to do it as a young person, and never
33:03did it.
33:04Because it was pure want to do it, but it was a fear that kind of stopped you doing it
33:08before.
33:08Yeah.
33:09It was a physical test as well as a mental test.
33:12Yeah.
33:12One of the reasons I did lack self-confidence in my ability to do it was the heart attack.
33:17Mm-hm.
33:18And the heart attack put me back kind of mentally quite a bit.
33:23Starting off in Sicily.
33:24My God.
33:25It'd be amazing.
33:28For Andrew, the race became a way to see the world.
33:31Look at that, Molly. Absolutely stunning.
33:34And prove his heart attack three years ago wouldn't hold him back.
33:39I would always say to children in class, the world's your oyster, go and enjoy it.
33:45But I never lived it.
33:47And I was always kind of a bit of a fraud that way.
33:49Whew!
33:52Jesus!
33:56You're sweating.
33:58The relief of getting to that first checkpoint and signing that book gave me the shot in the
34:05arm.
34:06I looked at you and said, we can do this.
34:07The stamina's there.
34:08And we can enjoy it as well.
34:10And we can enjoy it.
34:12It's my first train in Italy, Molly.
34:14You know my love of trains.
34:16Look at the striations of the rock, the way they're going down the lines.
34:19Oh my God, look.
34:20Never seen these before, ever.
34:23Different way of doing it.
34:24Total different way of doing beekeeping.
34:26And there's your honey.
34:27Seeing the mountains, seeing the landscape, seeing where people live.
34:30That's what I do.
34:31That's what I love.
34:34I'm really looking forward to getting out in the kayak.
34:36I have my own kayak at home, but I've never actually used it because of my...
34:41Dickey ticker.
34:42My dicky ticker.
34:43So I haven't been able to do it, so...
34:45Yeah.
34:46It'd be lovely.
34:50Whoo!
34:51Out in the open water.
34:53Look at those mountains.
35:02I've wanted to do that for a long time, Kit.
35:05The proof to me...
35:07That I could, er...
35:10That I wasn't going to get me.
35:14Sorry, Kit.
35:23It was so nice to kind of have the kayak in and like, just that whole thing to us was
35:28just really special.
35:29Like, you kind of have to cherish those moments.
35:31It's very important to cherish those moments.
35:33Just enjoy it.
35:34And that's...
35:35I think I try to say that to everyone.
35:36I absolutely enjoy it.
35:38We've actually been kayaking since.
35:40I've actually booked a trip for going to Norway with my wife.
35:45I think that whole rocky coast all the way up there would be unbelievable.
35:50Yeah.
35:51And we've booked kayaking in the fjords.
35:54Oh, wow.
35:55That'll be beautiful.
35:58I don't want to be stuck at a train station.
36:01For Molly, the race was an opportunity to find her own path in life and prove her independence.
36:07Is there a bus to Kiva?
36:09Bus? No.
36:10Taxi.
36:12Taxi.
36:12I don't know what to do.
36:13I don't know.
36:15Before the race, I would have found it very difficult.
36:17Those big decisions.
36:19I would have overthought it.
36:21I would have...
36:21I would have got annoyed myself, especially if it went wrong.
36:24I don't want 100.
36:26I want 70.
36:2870.
36:2970.
36:2970.
36:30Daddy.
36:31He's there for 70.
36:33Well done.
36:34Good call, yeah?
36:35I do think now I am a wee bit more self-confident.
36:40That contentment has come with my decisions.
36:42People need their doctorate to be confident because that's who you're looking to for answers.
36:47So it's really nice to sleep at night and not have thoughts and thoughts and thoughts and thoughts.
36:53There was a definite change in Molly towards the end.
36:56Yeah.
36:56There was a strong sense of more confidence.
36:59Yeah.
36:59And more decidedness.
37:18I think pre-race we kind of proved to each other and like in life we proved to each other
37:23we're good as father and daughter and I think race, the one thing that allowed us to prove to each
37:28other is we're a good team and that is we can make decisions.
37:31We can have equal opinion and hold each other and be like, yeah, no, that's good, that's bad and communicate.
37:38We've done.
37:38We did it.
37:39We did it.
37:40All right, kid.
37:41From Ridley.
37:44We're sad.
37:45We're sad.
37:49I'll still be her daddy for the rest of my life.
37:51Yeah.
37:51But also it'll be more of a friendship and a pal, yeah, absolutely.
37:58There's features of beauty, isn't there?
38:00Yeah.
38:01Good stonework.
38:02Mega.
38:05Also looking to strengthen their bond and find a new dynamic, in-laws Mark and Margot.
38:11Oh, wow.
38:13I'd love to have a go at one of these, wouldn't you?
38:14I know you would.
38:15Come on, you get one, I get one.
38:19Going with Mark, though, I really wanted this, but there was a little bit, weren't completely comfortable, were we?
38:25Not at all, no.
38:27I found her annoying.
38:30Margot thought I was a boring old fogey, basically.
38:34Judgy and boring.
38:35Judgy and boring, yes, yeah.
38:37You may all know, Julie's last dying wish was that we became friends.
38:40We continued and build on our friendship and that's what we did.
38:45I love Naples.
38:47Absolutely brilliant place.
38:48I hate it.
38:49I loathed Naples.
38:51I just didn't enjoy it at all.
38:53I did think, how's it going to go with Mark?
38:56How are we going to be on the race?
38:57And I have to say, some people were a little bit doubtful about the two of us doing it together.
39:03They were a little bit, why are you going with Mark?
39:07What in God's name?
39:09It's a white cocoon.
39:10What's it for?
39:11What did you, what, what?
39:12It's modesty, sir.
39:13I just think it was ridiculous.
39:17But as the race progressed, we didn't have a care in the world, did we?
39:21No, no.
39:21Not a care in the world.
39:24Try hitting it flat on, like that.
39:27Oh, okay, okay.
39:29Okay.
39:29Okay.
39:32Now we're talking.
39:34Now we are talking.
39:39We're just two people enjoying the moment.
39:43Yeah.
39:43And we were just having a bit of a laugh, weren't we really?
39:45We were, yes.
39:47Yay!
39:49And it just organically just grew.
39:54The last two legs of it was so hard in Mongolia.
39:57That's when the real, it was the real cement between us,
40:00because that's when it was, we were on our knees.
40:03Yes, we were, yeah.
40:03And we needed each other and we both needed to really pull together, didn't we?
40:07And support each other.
40:11No.
40:13Not the busiest of highways, is it?
40:15No.
40:17If you miss a rush hour.
40:19We had to suffer.
40:20I think we had to suffer and push and strive for it really to be the adventure that it was
40:28and for it to truly make us unite and have each other's back.
40:34We're doing blue sky thinking today.
40:36That's all we can do.
40:38You know, this determination to finish.
40:40A side of Margaret I'd never seen before.
40:43It's what kept me going just about.
40:46Do you go to Harcorden?
40:48Yes?
40:48Oh, good.
40:49So kind.
40:50Off we go.
40:51We're doing it our way and we never ever give up.
40:54As a team, we've always carried on.
40:57We've always forged on.
40:58And I'm so proud of her for doing that, you know.
41:02I would have given up.
41:03I would have given up without Margot being there.
41:06I wouldn't give up on you though, Mark.
41:07I know you wouldn't.
41:08And that's a sign of friendship.
41:12Here's to you, Julia, wherever you are.
41:14Yeah.
41:15Yeah.
41:15Who inspired us.
41:16Who inspired us.
41:17Thank you, Julia.
41:19Yeah.
41:19Thank you, Julia.
41:20She's laughing.
41:23For Margot, travelling was also an opportunity to step away from her day-to-day routine.
41:30Part of coming on the race was like running away from real life and just enjoying myself
41:34and just be me for a change and just go, let rip.
41:38Taking respite from her responsibilities, like caring for her elderly mum.
41:44Since I've got back from the race, I've been more centred.
41:48It did feel like Dorothy coming back in The Wizard of Oz, you know, coming home and that there is
41:52no place like home.
41:53I was kind of in a way running away from my situation in life.
41:58But now actually the determination I was applying to those challenges, I've applied them to my life.
42:04The BBC?
42:05The BBC, yes.
42:08Race across the world.
42:10To make things nicer, to make things easier.
42:14And so I'm living that best life, but in Liverpool.
42:17Oh, my goodness!
42:18For Mark, the race also became something more.
42:21Oh, my gosh!
42:25Shifting his perspective on life itself.
42:28It's unbelievable, this.
42:31Wildness!
42:32It's strange to say, you know, at 67, I was always embarrassed about doing things.
42:37I thought what people might say, what people might think.
42:40I just couldn't care less now.
42:42In a way, because of Margot, she's very open and very free and doesn't worry what people think about her.
42:47And I've taken that on board.
42:48You were first on the dance floor in Sri Lanka as well.
42:51He led, he led the party.
42:53Oh, I was, yes.
42:54Yeah, the bailer.
42:55Yeah.
42:57You know, for us, we were winners because we'd done what we wanted to set out to do.
43:01And we'd won for Julia.
43:02That was the thing.
43:03Yes.
43:03Yes.
43:03We are good friends.
43:05We're mates now.
43:06We are, yeah, mates.
43:07Do you think you'd go on holiday again?
43:10Well...
43:10We've been talking about it, yes.
43:12Yes!
43:12We have been talking about it, yes.
43:13And we like adventure.
43:15We do want to...
43:15We are definitely up for adventure.
43:17Like, it's so nice that you have that relationship together and you've built that for Julia.
43:22Like, wherever she is now, I'm sure she's very happy to see you both like this.
43:26It's almost like she was on the race with you.
43:28Yeah.
43:29She was on the race with you.
43:30Yeah.
43:30It's a lovely legacy.
43:32Lovely legacy.
43:41Arriving in Mongolia, the filming teams faced one of the toughest environments the race had come up against.
43:48Navigating extreme weather and limited infrastructure after months of meticulous planning.
44:01The planning of Mongolia, it must have been a huge endeavour for everyone.
44:05We're here, we're in Mongolia.
44:06It's all very exciting.
44:07We've got this massive map of the country that I love all fixers have lent us.
44:13And we basically have just got all of the stops and the potential places we think that the cast might
44:18be headed.
44:18We just need to make sure we know where all the teams are at all times.
44:22To ensure safety, production members keep the teams trackable and in sight whenever they travel by car and what are
44:29called follow vehicles.
44:31So this is day 42 of race across the world and I'm in our SB following the cast and crew.
44:40They are over here.
44:43I'm currently wrangling yesterday's rushes.
44:47This is my office.
44:51It's the final two weeks of race and this just feels like an absolute privilege and pleasure to be here
44:57filming this.
45:00It's in the middle of nowhere but we're in Mongolia.
45:03I actually currently can't hear them because we've got so many devices plugged into it.
45:08We've got walkies, we've got phones, we've got Garmin's.
45:13Currently the only way we can contact the SV is with our Garmin.
45:18So...
45:19Yes, we're on our own.
45:20Yes.
45:28Right, weather.
45:30Again, we may need minus 25 degrees.
45:33It's going to be cold.
45:34Stay covered properly.
45:37Good luck.
45:39It's still warm.
45:41Well.
45:43While we're in here in Mongolia it's cold during the day and even colder at night
45:47so we need quick access to extra layers after sunset.
45:50From Italy to Mongolia we've gone from plus 30 down to minus 30
45:55which in itself brings new problems.
45:59Where Italy was sunburn here with hypothermia.
46:03To battle the sub-zero conditions everyone on the ground had to be equipped with extreme cold weather gear.
46:10This is where we slept last night but the stove was off.
46:14It's exceptionally cold.
46:15Lots of layers on.
46:16This is quite extreme here.
46:18The worst part of the entire night was doing snoring, guys.
46:21That's such a fib.
46:22That is your snoring.
46:23Your snoring.
46:25It's colder than I had expected that I bought you.
46:28The coats we had, the outfits, like, we'd put your hood up and pull the zip ties
46:33and you'd literally have a little space like this to look through.
46:36It was just fun, isn't it?
46:39Yeah, but I think I grossly underestimated how cold it was going to be.
46:44Ending in Mongolia was just crazy.
46:47It is so cold.
46:49Yeah.
46:50Oh my God.
46:52Where are you going?
46:54I don't have a clue.
46:56There's just such vastness and so many random things can happen.
46:59So, for the crew, the amount of planning needed to try and get ten idiots to race across the world
47:04is insane.
47:11I mean, when we started this whole journey, we always said, we were like, when we travel, we want to
47:16live it, but me and Jo have never really, we spent some time together being like little holidays, but it's
47:20never been more than like, what, like a week, two weeks we've ever spent at the same time.
47:24And so it was nothing to what I'd imagined.
47:28This is important.
47:31Slides of shame.
47:33Comfort. Comfort is your best friend.
47:35Those are old man shoes down there.
47:37Those are old man shoes?
47:38No.
47:39Eager to make every second count.
47:42Fresh out of college, Jo and Kush wanted to explore life beyond the familiar world they were raised in by
47:48their mums in Liverpool.
47:50This is our plan.
47:52This is our security, which I'm going to be taken charge of.
47:56We still need to be on it with Kush sometimes.
47:59We've got our passports, Kush.
48:00Yeah, yeah.
48:02Excuse me.
48:02What are you trying to say?
48:04Liverpool's a small place.
48:06We've gone out the city, don't get me wrong, but it's kind of like, you still don't scale how probably
48:12the world is.
48:13I mean, coming into this, once we applied, we realised we are probably going to be the youngest.
48:17So I think with youth comes this preconception of lack of maturity, lack of life experience.
48:26We see ourselves as the underdogs, we see ourselves as the, yeah, the least capable.
48:30And I think it's flipped, isn't it?
48:33It is last 3am in the morning.
48:36Yes, 3am in the morning.
48:38I don't think any teams could have done it faster.
48:42Don't judge it both by its cover.
48:44I think one thing about me and Jo is we actually, we're good at different things.
48:47We work well with what the other person lacks, and like me, I sort of overthought a lot.
48:51And I was like, ah, we have to do everything and think of it in a specific way.
48:55And Jo would be like, no, just act, do.
48:57So that's where I would have probably held us back if I kept trying to plan everything.
49:01I would still be in Palermo if I, if I, if I, if you weren't there.
49:04But, but, you, you're behind the strategy.
49:09You're like, you're very calculated.
49:11And I think I focus too much on the present, whereas you look so far into the future.
49:16It helped me see the finish line, if that makes sense.
49:19Actually, Jo and Kush, I feel like you make the mistakes at the beginning,
49:23and you learn from those mistakes early on, and then you ace it for the final round,
49:28which is what I think you guys basically did.
49:31Try their best. Yeah.
49:32Especially being, being last, it's a kick up the, kick up the ass, you know what I mean?
49:37Although he sustained a drive to succeed.
49:41Uzbekistan, this way.
49:43She doesn't know he's gone.
49:45Oh, my days.
49:46Kush struggled with his mental health.
49:49We need to do for this price.
49:50There is no way.
49:53Oh, I feel sick.
49:56I think the race was probably the peak of my, of my strolls,
49:59when I was losing the most sleep.
50:03The risk of making one wrong choice had such an impact.
50:08You have a lot to worry about.
50:10I'm going to be thinking the entire night.
50:12Been such a rough day.
50:14I had a lot of reminders of my dad, and it dug up a lot of feelings that I hadn't
50:18dealt with.
50:19We can still do this.
50:22God.
50:24We just can't give up.
50:26I think a lot of the race involves how you cope with stress.
50:30Because if you let the stress get to you, you will break and you can literally, you could go home.
50:36And you can't expect to go on a journey and expect it to be all fine.
50:39But I know you're benefiting from venting.
50:43Just talking, yeah.
50:47I just really appreciate the fact that Joe's always up for, for sort of, looking after me, in a way.
50:58Yeah, I mean, he is my best mate.
51:05But yeah, we, we kept each other sane. We, we, we kept moving.
51:10Oh.
51:11Come on, bro.
51:12Panel spin.
51:13And we never gave up once.
51:18What?
51:19Wait.
51:20How did we do that, bro?
51:24I've started seeing a weekly counsellor just to, to help process my emotions and I think it's really, really helped.
51:29And nothing to do with the race, just in day-to-day life. And now I can learn to handle
51:32myself a lot better.
51:34But it, but it's about learning.
51:35Yeah, exactly.
51:36Life's learning and life's about learning and learning as you make, as you go on.
51:39Better learn it now when you're younger.
51:41Yeah.
51:41And when you're 67.
51:44The one thing the race did teach as well, is it is actually okay to ask for help.
51:47I mean, we couldn't have done it without asking for, only hundreds of people helped us on our journey.
51:53I'm going to pay them.
51:54What?
51:55Are you serious?
51:56Yeah.
51:57Oh my God.
51:58Oh my God.
52:00Thank you so much.
52:01You've been so much help.
52:03Bro said we could stay at his house?
52:04What?
52:09How many times a week do you eat sardine?
52:11Five.
52:11Five times a week?
52:12Yeah.
52:13Is that very strong, yeah?
52:14Yes.
52:15No gym, no training, nothing.
52:17Just sardine.
52:18Just sardine.
52:19Yes, yes.
52:21The people they met and the confidence they gained from them, inspired Joe to travel independently,
52:28taking his first solo trip to the Gambia.
52:31Yeah.
52:31I think, yeah, the race definitely encouraged me to continue travelling and I don't think
52:36I would have gone to Gambia without it.
52:37I did get in contact with this family who owned a farm and they look for travellers to
52:43come help them work and in return they get food, a shelter and a family to chill with.
52:50And that's what I did.
52:51And I did, I explained how I wanted to explore my heritage and I think they resonated with that.
53:00They were very caring.
53:02What would you like to do next?
53:03What do you fancy doing?
53:05We've got no real plan at the moment in terms of the future, but I know that we both are
53:09going to travel.
53:10We don't know where yet, but it's going to happen.
53:12At 19 years old, you guys have accomplished something so major in your life.
53:17I wish I was doing stuff like this when I was 19.
53:20I was just revising for exams.
53:22That's my whole life.
53:24Honestly, so proud of you.
53:26So proud of you from the bottom of our hearts.
53:28Genuinely.
53:30Let's go.
53:31Let's go.
53:33This is it, bro.
53:35The race was tough.
53:37It was tough and it's amazing to know that we can get through it and succeed.
53:44Three, two, one.
53:47Oh!
53:48Oh my God!
53:49Oh my God!
53:50Oh my God!
53:51Oh my God!
53:51Oh my God!
53:52Yo, what?
53:53Yo!
53:54I feel this race is bigger than the degree.
53:58Yo, you're actually joking.
54:00You're actually, bro.
54:06The biggest thing I've taken from the race is that life's to be lived and go and enjoy it.
54:13It's not all be all end all.
54:15Yeah.
54:15Like there is another way and actually the wins end up being a lot sweeter because you've dealt with the
54:19low.
54:20You can just do whatever you want and the world is there to be seen and pop your phone down
54:26and actually listen to people.
54:28Can I take you into school and say that?
54:32I've got a question for everyone.
54:35Would you do it again?
54:37Yeah.
54:37Absolutely.
54:38Absolutely.
54:39Yeah.
54:39I'd pay a lot of money to do it again.
54:46Oh, nice!
54:51Look, look, look.
54:56It's gorgeous.
54:59Young, single, available and full of dumpling.
55:02What more could you want?
55:05Oh, where are we going?
55:09It's definitely the most beautiful drive I've ever got on my end's highlight.
55:12Wow.
55:13It's almost mystical, isn't it?
55:15Oh, my teeny micro-booney.
55:18Oh, look, there's one there.
55:19Oh, it's huge!
55:22You all right?
55:23I love you.
55:24I'm very proud of us.
55:26I'm proud of you.
55:27Epic.
55:28Absolutely epic.
55:29Woo!
55:30Katie, what are you doing?
55:32Oh, f*** it.
55:36Oh, my God!
55:38Is that one?
55:39Yo!
55:39Woo!
55:41We did it!
55:43We won.
55:44Uh...
55:47It was a…
55:48I love you.
55:48I love you.
55:49I love you.
55:58Don't you know anything?
55:58Do you want to breathe?
55:59I love you.
56:03I love you.
56:07I love you.
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