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00:01Six months ago, five teams took part in an unforgettable competition.
00:10Let's go.
00:11We got this.
00:12Rapido, Rapido.
00:13Up there, can you see that?
00:15Oh, this is sick.
00:16An epic race of over 12,000 kilometres from west to east.
00:23Look at this.
00:24Incredible.
00:25You can see that on a new build in Manchester here.
00:28Off you made it.
00:30From the sun-drenched, bustling streets of Sicily.
00:34That's a view and a half, you know, screensaver vibes.
00:37To the vast, unforgiving wilderness of Mongolia.
00:41I love how flat it is into, like, absolute murder.
00:47Absolutely epic.
00:48They tested their own stamina and endurance.
00:52Give it loads.
00:54Can I have your skates?
00:56Snowballs.
00:56So we've lost our lead.
00:59Across eight countries, rich in culture and experience.
01:04You gave me your vodka.
01:06Welcome, Kazakhstan.
01:09Today's celebration is called a circumcision party.
01:13Sick.
01:13I don't think I've ever seen anything so cool in my life.
01:18But only one team could claim victory.
01:21Three, two, one.
01:24And take home the £20,000 prize.
01:27No!
01:31Now, for the first time since the finish line, they reunite.
01:36Hello.
01:37How are we doing?
01:38To share their stories.
01:39I don't think I was thinking anything other than, I can't believe I'm here.
01:43To reveal how the race changed their lives.
01:46We wanted to make sure this didn't break us.
01:49And it's actually made us stronger.
01:51High five.
01:53I wanted to do that for a long time, kid.
01:57Margot, she's very open and very free.
01:59And I've taken that on board.
02:03And 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.
02:15What a job to be able to do.
02:17As they all relive.
02:21Let's go!
02:22Their race.
02:23Come on, Mark.
02:24It's right there.
02:25And across the world.
02:36Having arrived home in the UK almost six months ago, all five teams are coming back together.
02:44Hi, folks.
02:45Hi, guys.
02:46I'm going to pop some microphones on you.
02:47Yeah.
02:48This is very professional.
02:49None of this on the road.
02:51First to arrive, siblings 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.
03:03I'm so excited to see them.
03:05How you doing?
03:07The second duo to join.
03:09Father and daughter, Andrew and Molly.
03:12Hello!
03:13Can't get up tonight.
03:15I'm so excited.
03:16Hi!
03:18Good to see you, Sarah.
03:20Good to see you.
03:22That's beautiful.
03:23Look at you.
03:24Good.
03:25Oh, my God.
03:25It's just been wild.
03:27Absolutely wild.
03:28Should we go and do it again?
03:29Yeah.
03:29Should we go and do it again?
03:31Next, to walk through the doors...
03:33Hello!
03:34Hello!
03:36...in-laws Mark and Margo.
03:38Mark, how we doing?
03:39Very good, my man.
03:41Oh, look beautiful.
03:42Good to see you.
03:42Morning.
03:43Have you been up to any adventures?
03:44He's been travelling.
03:46He got right out, got 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.
03:52I'm in Thailand.
03:53Singapore.
03:53Sri Lanka.
03:54So jealous.
03:55And guess who I bumped into Sri Lanka?
03:57Oh!
03:59It's been away.
04:00It's been away.
04:01Yeah.
04:02I did Sydney, New Zealand and then Sri Lanka.
04:06Race really gave me that sense of freedom to go, actually, I can do a bit more travelling.
04:12We bumped into each other.
04:13That is fun.
04:14I know.
04:14It was...
04:15It was so good.
04:16I was like, ah!
04:17Hi.
04:18We're at a five-star hotel and all we can find to eat is...
04:24Mongolian vegetable noodles and...
04:28Mongolian seafood rice.
04:30Brilliant.
04:30There we are.
04:30We cannot escape Mongolia wherever we go or their food.
04:34Bye!
04:35Bye!
04:37Also back with the group, cousins Pooja and Roshni.
04:40Girls!
04:46How are you?
04:47How are you?
04:47Do you love the voice?
04:48That's my voice.
04:49Oh, perfect.
04:50The voice is gone.
04:52Oh, that's just...
04:53Oh, you guys!
04:55That is terrible timing.
04:59And the last pair to join the pack, 19-year-old best friends Joe and Kush.
05:05Are we the last?
05:06Yeah, I think we're the last.
05:10Look at the lads!
05:11Yay!
05:13Hi!
05:14Awesome!
05:15Good to see you.
05:17Good to see you.
05:17Good to see you.
05:18Good to see you, good to see you.
05:19Oh, it's super fun.
05:21Your boys, your boys.
05:23You got very fond of them, didn't you on the trip?
05:25They're like our little brothers.
05:27So, Gerd, as the people who left early,
05:30who do you think, between the whole audience, who do you think won?
05:33Who's giving winner energy?
05:34We always thought that you two would win, Mark and Margo, yeah.
05:38You were always so charming and, like, full of energy,
05:40and, like, you just seemed to know everything.
05:42Like, with my dad, like, I could ask him any question,
05:44he would just know the answer. I feel like you're exactly the same.
05:46Oh, gosh.
05:48Whoever won, can you please step forward?
05:57Oh, my God, I'm so proud!
06:05Oh, my God!
06:07Rosh, look! It looks like a cathedral.
06:10These five pairs put their everyday lives on pause
06:13and came together for an epic adventure.
06:17But it was actually months before they stood on the starting line
06:20that they began their journey.
06:24They were selected from thousands of application videos.
06:28Hello, everybody, it's Molly and...
06:30Daddy! Andrew.
06:33Hello, I'm Harrison.
06:35And I'm Ganty.
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. Yeah, like, experience, like, different...
06:48Yeah, cultures, people.
06:50Hi, I'm Pooja.
06:51And I'm Roshni.
06:52Please take us.
06:53Yeah, we would love to go.
06:55We really want to go.
06:56Why do you think we'd be good, Mark?
06:58Well, we're like chalk and cheese.
06:59I'm very practical, boring.
07:01Mark just has fun, fun, fun!
07:04And as casting progressed, all shortlisted candidates were brought to London
07:10to test their navigation skills, without phones or cash,
07:15and armed only with cryptic clues.
07:19Ask someone, please.
07:20Yeah, yeah, listen, you've read my mind.
07:21Excuse me, Ruth.
07:22Excuse me.
07:22We're in a race at the moment, and we just need some help finding out where our location is.
07:26Molly's taking charge.
07:28I'll follow her.
07:32We're in a competition.
07:33You wouldn't take us to Golden Hind.
07:35Does anyone know if this is Southbound?
07:37It's Southbound.
07:38No, it's been good.
07:39It's Southbound.
07:40Just ask people, it's easier.
07:42Do you want a challenge?
07:43And these ladies are filming for this challenge to see if I can get anything for my birthday.
07:47It's 59 today.
07:48I've got my passport and my bag if you want to see.
07:4959?
07:50Oh, this is sick.
07:53No way.
07:54That's sick.
07:5521 minutes.
07:56What?
07:57Yes, mate.
07:58Nice.
07:59Well, thank you.
08:00Amazing.
08:01Four months after selection, they arrived at the airport, having packed for every eventuality,
08:08with no idea where in the world they were heading.
08:11Oh!
08:12Their destination revealed just hours before departure.
08:17You'll be flying to...
08:18Palermo in Sicily?
08:20Oh, my God.
08:21Son of Italy?
08:22We're going to have pizza tonight.
08:25Oh, that's brilliant.
08:26That's good, yeah.
08:27Oh, my money.
08:29In the historic city of Palermo...
08:32I'm actually really nervous, can't I?
08:34See you here.
08:35They 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 you.
08:42I'm Margot.
08:42Margot, I'm Joe.
08:44Oh, I can see you.
08:45Yay!
08:45Hi!
08:46Okay.
08:47So, I'm guessing everyone's here to win.
08:48I have a saying, second's first loser.
08:51Oh, okay.
08:53Suddenly, 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?
08:59Yeah.
08:59Yeah.
09:08When we first met you guys in Palermo, it was like that couple minutes of hi, guys, and then it
09:14was off.
09:14I don't think I was thinking anything other than, can't believe I'm here.
09:18Yeah, yeah.
09:19And can't believe I'm about to do this, and this backpack's heavy.
09:22I hypnotised myself to believe that backpack was really light, didn't I?
09:25You did.
09:26But as soon as I got home, what the hell?
09:30After the first leg, I thought Katie and Harrison were just going to blow us out of the water.
09:37You know, a day and a half ahead of the first leg, you know, it's unbelievable.
09:41It was.
09:41It was very intimidating to have you guys so far ahead, because we didn't know anything about you.
09:45You're a myth.
09:47But then when we met you, Harrison, you still impressed.
09:50Your understanding of budgeting and timings and, like, this overview that was almost like a computer.
09:56Felt like that.
09:57Couldn't turn it off.
09:58That is him, yeah.
10:02I've got a toiletry bag the size of a house.
10:05Yeah.
10:06Well, I've got all the useful stuff.
10:07I'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, ooh, 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.
10:27You were in a deep emotional relationship with your calculator.
10:31We have spent 8.5% this leg of our total budget.
10:36Which is very, very good.
10:38It works.
10:39Being a tight bastard works.
10:43Pocket meat and cheese.
10:46Really dry.
10:48Really dry is an understatement.
10:49Like I've just stuck my face in the Sahara Desert.
10:52I can't see you.
10:54I took it very personally as my responsibility to get us to that finish line.
10:58And it kind of soothes me to constantly be on thinking about it.
11:01Oh, look at this.
11:03This is not good for the budget.
11:05I'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 be absorbed by the race and the race environment and not the experiences.
11:20Although the race environment is about winning, it's also about the unique way of travelling that you're doing by racing.
11:27I genuinely loved every second of it.
11:29You know, 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.
11:36I think everyone will agree you were pure sunshine the whole way through.
11:39I think one day you were like, you were sitting with a glass of Prosecco at Chekwine being like, I
11:42could be at work on a Monday.
11:44I'm not.
11:46As they ventured further east, Katie's desire to pause and take it all in...
11:51It feels very much once in a lifetime.
11:55..started to shift Harrison's perspective on the race.
11:59I'm on a horse in Kyrgyzstan.
12:03It's incredible.
12:05That is just ridiculous.
12:08This is stunning.
12:19Birmingham.
12:22Our picture of Tesco Express.
12:25Tesco.
12:25Tesco, yeah, Tesco.
12:27He was so chuffed with his picture of Tesco Express.
12:30Such a lovely moment, but funny.
12:33Why am I sat in a treehouse in Turkey looking at a picture of Tesco?
12:35Tesco Express is many as well.
12:36That was kind of when I sort of let go a little bit and stopped and started to appreciate and
12:43spend time with people.
12:44And that's really where I came away with the sort of the mantra that, OK, this is actually what the
12:47race is about.
12:48Oh, no, no, no, no.
12:50You sure?
12:52What has he given you?
12:53It's a medal.
12:55Oh, half marathon.
12:57We are friends.
12:59Well, Harrison actually sent something, didn't you?
13:01Yeah, yeah, I have, we've got in contact with the guy that sent me a medal and I've sent him,
13:06sent him my one back in a little sort of UK hamper box.
13:09Oh, that's so nice.
13:10Yeah.
13:11You've come back and you've gone like, you, you've gone like, I need to travel and I do think you
13:16have, it has like changed you.
13:18I have to say that I probably do see the value in it, the monetary value in it now.
13:22I've not spent my own money yet on it.
13:24Yeah, yeah, yeah.
13:25But it might happen.
13:26I guess now you've learned that you, it, firstly, it's not like a holiday.
13:29Well, I call it a bit a holiday sometimes.
13:31Maybe if you do it Margot's way.
13:35Their growth as a team came from learning to open up to one another, deepening a bond in ways Katie
13:42had always wanted.
13:44I don't know, I feel, I just felt like, why is this affecting me and it's not affecting him?
13:49Like, how does he seem so OK about it all?
13:52I definitely think the race has helped me, like, verbalise, like, my feelings.
13:58Cos before, like, I might have felt like I wanted to say something to you, you know, something's bothering me,
14:04I was upset or something.
14:06Erm, but I physically could not get the words out.
14:09Whereas now, I think, cos, yeah, the race is just a really intense environment and you've got to be supportive
14:15for each other.
14:15I just wanted to say, erm, like, I suppose, thank you for, for 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.
14:34Yeah, but you do grow and you have to and it's a life experience and you have to accept it
14:37as a life experience and realise and take something from it and you did.
14:41Yeah.
14:42Yeah.
14:43OK, got it?
14:44It's a good one for your hinge profile, Harrison.
14:47Makes you look really cool.
14:49I've got a man bag on there.
14:50Feels like I'm going to plunge your toilet.
14:53If it looks that bad, could you please try and help me?
14:58Together, come on.
15:00Oh, my God.
15:02Well done with the finish line.
15:03We wouldn't have been able to have as good of a time with anyone else.
15:07It was sort of the perfect combo and we've got that for life.
15:10Yeah.
15:11This is breathtaking.
15:14Incredible.
15:16Oh, wow.
15:17Look at that one.
15:18I'll go, oh.
15:18The teams were on the road for 51 days.
15:22Absolutely incredible.
15:23It's hard to find words, isn't it?
15:24It is.
15:25Absolutely, yeah.
15:26With cameras recording their every move.
15:29With them, a five-person team responsible for capturing the general views, known as the GV crew, who film the
15:37scale, beauty, and rich variety of the journey.
15:43If 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, and 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.
15:56A big bank of cloud came in and kind of killed us a little bit.
16:00Sometimes it helps, it came out and created all these shadows across the city.
16:04But thankfully, the weather has picked up, the sun 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, which is what you see on the screens.
16:24So they essentially inspire the whole of the UK and whoever watches a race across the world to want to
16:29go to these places by the way they capture it on camera.
16:33Wow, look 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 it's heckling.
16:48They've got so much stuff, right?
16:50Got 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.
17:06To bring the race to life.
17:08Combs, check.
17:09Yeah, head down.
17:10In London, a 20-strong team of producers, researchers and production management, following 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, who, obviously
17:27on UK time.
17:30It feels like the brain of the risk control centre.
17:35There you go.
17:35I'm thinking about it medically, but they're like the brain of race across the world, and then you have, like,
17:38the limbs in...
17:40Oh, God.
17:41On location, a small, embedded filming crew, living and breathing every step of the race with each pair.
17:49How are you feeling right now?
17:50I think that's your duvet, Aaron.
17:52This is the duvet?
17:53That's the smaller one.
17:54The bigger one should be the sheer.
17:55Oh.
17:57You're going to put your lavender spray on it.
18:00And finally, the checkpoint crew, who are one step ahead of the racers, tracking their every move and planning for
18:08all eventualities.
18:10We've got Joe and Kush.
18:12I'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, and they've got their own job to do.
18:19If they go the most efficient way, they'll get a car all the way up to there, but there are
18:24various other points that they could get dropped on the hill.
18:28They're responsible for setting up and testing the final run to each new checkpoint hotel.
18:34Oh, my God.
18:36Hi, families.
18:38I'm at ease.
18:40Oh, my God.
18:40Oh, my God.
18:43And they're to support each team on their arrival.
18:46Say hi, Hannah.
18:47Give me the camera.
18:49What's your role, Hannah?
18:51My role is to look after cars when they're at checkpoint, make sure they're fed, watered, happy, healthy.
18:58And that's it.
19:00Once the planning's done, it's over to the race.
19:04Unpredictable.
19:06Unscripted.
19:06And whatever happens, whenever teams arrive, the crew has to be ready.
19:11We are here at the finale location, and we are just waiting for one of the teams to come in.
19:17Where the spit is, there's a direct line of sight, so we don't want the cars to see us, so
19:21we're having to lie down and hide, poised for the signal.
19:25Come on.
19:28Okay, go, go, go, go, go, go.
19:29Everyone.
19:31That is a spit, isn't it?
19:33Yeah.
19:34When you're coming in to checkpoint, it gets really exciting, doesn't it?
19:38Ah, here we go.
19:41I'm about to have sent some messages into these devices for the runway.
19:46The fumes.
19:47Do-do-do.
19:51Find the amphitheater and the way for the instructions.
19:54You need to find them in it, right?
19:55I think it's at the other side of the bridge.
19:58Okay, ready?
19:59How are everything up?
20:03Is this right?
20:04Yeah.
20:05Oh.
20:06There are two blocks in there.
20:08Yeah.
20:12Bonnie.
20:14Farmer, Salah, it's here, Margot, it's here.
20:16Yes!
20:17It's all that things fired.
20:19Copy that, we're rolling.
20:20There it is, John.
20:25Please, silence here.
20:28What?
20:44As the checkpoint is approached, the reality of each precious minute falls into focus.
20:51Lads, we're going to beat you.
20:52No way.
20:54Come on, Mark.
20:56With every team throwing their all into the chance to climb the leaderboard.
21:01Hey, go speed up, lad.
21:02You okay, Puddy?
21:03I'm good, Puddy.
21:04Faster, faster!
21:06We've got a checkpoint to get to.
21:08Get 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 and it can be very easy to go like,
21:24guys, you're giving me nothing here.
21:25But they can't because then it's not fair.
21:28Is this actually a joke?
21:29Well, that's what's going on because they don't know.
21:32They had to walk through every stupid decision we made knowing we were going in the wrong direction.
21:37Well, actually, we're kind of going back on ourselves.
21:40Yeah.
21:41Oh, gosh.
21:42But having the lead is one bus journey away.
21:45Big money moves.
21:46Big money moves.
21:46Right, little money moves.
21:47It's right there.
21:49Yes, Puddy.
21:50Come on.
21:51Hope and pray now.
21:55We were looking out for the boys because we noticed you becoming more savvy and more competitive.
22:01Because you said from the first, we're in it, we're really seriously in it to win it.
22:05But 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.
22:11That's the thing.
22:11Wolfie's a very, very, like...
22:12But quite quickly, you were like, zoop.
22:14Here are the boys.
22:16How 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 provide funds.
22:25They're trying to get information else.
22:27See you, boys.
22:28We'll see you guys.
22:29See you.
22:30Oh, no.
22:31Best friends last night.
22:33Sworn enemies.
22:33Yeah.
22:34Whoa.
22:35Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
22:36We were there to win, really.
22:37We are.
22:38We were there.
22:39I've been saying this from the start.
22:40We both have been saying this from the start.
22:41We were there to win.
22:42I think I have to win.
22:43You just want to do better than everyone else.
22:46Oh, yeah.
22:46But, but, do you want five and six to stay?
22:48Really?
22:48Shh.
22:50We're ten short.
22:51Is there any way we could change money?
22:53I don't know, worry.
22:54There was a situation where Molly and Andrew were ten euros short.
22:58You wouldn't give us a tenner for a tenner, no?
23:00Oh, that's a shame.
23:01I thought that.
23:02That's a shame.
23:04Nah, I was like, nah, realistically, we're here to win.
23:07I feel like we should not belong.
23:08No.
23:09Oh, lad, what are you trying?
23:11You were very, very down to just lend them a bit of money.
23:14I'm, I'm, I'm glad we didn't give any money.
23:16I'm glad.
23:17Set a precedent.
23:18100%.
23:20I would very much say that your experience was to win, and you really enjoyed it, and
23:24the whole way through we were very competitive, obviously, but we were forced, and we were
23:29trying our hardest, and we were still coming in, and, like, we were constantly back of
23:33the pack, back of the pack, and it was about staying in it.
23:35People talk about strategies, if we had any strategy coming into this was to stay in
23:40the game as long as possible, and then try and win it at the end, and that's what we
23:43did.
23:44Yeah.
23:44Were you two right behind each other at the final break?
23:47I'm not speaking to you again.
23:49That's okay.
23:50It's all right.
23:51That's okay.
23:52The gloves are off.
23:53No.
23:54But there's a good, good amount of luck, and, like, I think, like, the favourite moments
23:58for me, and it sounds so sad, but it was when, like, connecting transport just worked
24:02out.
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 that 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.
24:26Smile.
24:28Oh.
24:30Your shoes get wet.
24:31Wet shoes.
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 they'd worked hard
24:41to build and embrace a more unpredictable way of life.
24:46Pepperonchino.
24:47Calabrese.
24:48This is different.
24:50Roche is absolutely smashing it.
24:52She's maintained her energy levels.
24:54Look at her.
24:55She's so cute.
24:56Quanto.
25:02What are you doing?
25:03Oh, no.
25:04Yes, you can.
25:05Fine.
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.
25:15I think the goal of just going on to this is we'd both been in our careers for, like, 10
25:19years.
25:21So, life gets very intense.
25:23And we wanted to do something about that.
25:26This guy.
25:27He is a guard of the gods.
25:29Okay, he's waving.
25:31I've always wanted to take time off, but 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 bus?
25:48Sunday.
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 to make sure you keep that relationship.
26:12And, you know, we just, we wanted to make sure this didn't break us.
26:16And it's actually made us stronger.
26:18Yeah.
26:19But their momentum faltered in Turquia.
26:22We asked about buses tonight, but unfortunately there wasn't anything available.
26:26It gives the other teams time to catch up.
26:28And arriving in last at the third checkpoint led to their surprise elimination.
26:34Please sign in at Overleaf.
26:35Oh!
26:36Oh, my God.
26:38We're lost.
26:46I think when we saw the book, we didn't expect that everybody would have done so well on that leg.
26:54but you guys aced it but saying that it was a great leg like we had an incredible time
26:59and honestly mongolia was for you guys like i'm so happy that you guys had that adventure
27:05thank you also we got to go on our own adventure yeah we went on a trip to vietnam after
27:11all this
27:11ended it was just such a great place wait we got to have really good food get massages yeah
27:23we just had our own experience we planned to go away together again with our husbands with our
27:29families so if this had not happened i don't think we would be doing that i don't think we would
27:35be
27:35as proactive yeah you think about like what race and travel has given each one of us that has brought
27:42you together and like my wife has said to me like who are you traveling with all that kind of
27:46thing
27:46and i'd say like beautiful gear who's an anesthetist and i go i just want molly to turn out like
27:52you
27:53and i mean that are just amazing and lifelong friends hopefully and absolutely we missed you
27:59though honestly we wanted to sign your names in the book oh
28:10that is amazing for all the teams this was a journey defined by endurance and extremes look look look
28:18oh that is really nice you could see the whole coast from the sun-baked coastlines of europe
28:23to the untamed expanse of central asia oh my god
28:28oh look at this it is like the wild west mark isn't it yeah into the sub-zero temperatures of
28:37mongolia oh i feel the cold retracing a path steeped in history along the old silk road
28:46they encountered a huge variety of people and local customs
28:52my father oh hello hello nice to meet you hello hello hello hello nice to meet you
28:57what are we going to do
29:00all of our own i suppose that we're going to do
29:07it's just such a like extreme is it like you just started off in like central mainland europe where
29:14that you had all the comforts really of of home and and then going to just it literally is mad
29:20once you left europe yes and went to kazakhstan it was an alien environment it was rocky it was dry
29:29it was arid and from that point yeah it was a completely different journey but even from the
29:35trains did you you must have got to see like scenery nothing there's absolutely nothing what it's like
29:41being on the moon i can't describe it there is nothing there you really throughout the whole
29:47experience went from one to the other done it went from language to no language do you have avto um
29:55car machine after after that's a transport to no trust yeah the bus it's all closed yeah yes
30:05i found the bus station it's just a shed holy moly traffic jam look at them there's millions of them
30:14yeah i'd say this year race is very much extreme that's the word to sum it up i think it's
30:20just so
30:20nice that you just you're worried that ah they don't speak the same language but you find a way to
30:25communicate like whether it's you dancing with everyone or you know our man with the tesco like you you
30:32like yeah you find common ground you'll always find a way to communicate that was like the most
30:37peaceful thing yeah yeah when we did all these homestays like to live and sleep on the same roof
30:42share the food like this is such a privilege it's even more of a privilege in my eyes than being
30:48able
30:48to afford like the five star hotels no they treated us like family
30:57oh 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 this is a really big deal
31:10oh my god there's an eagle hello nice to meet you that's good
31:16yes kush it's nice to meet you your eyes are so beautiful thank you
31:23i love the outfits this is what i think we're both searching for on
31:26in this journey as a whole is the experiences that aren't readily accessible
31:37it's very bitter i quite like it delicious look at him delicious good he's very good yeah
31:45but when we got to mongolia it really got hard for us we really struggled it felt like your choices
31:53were kind of taken away from you because at the start it was kind of do you go by boat
31:57do you go by
31:57train do you go by car do you go by taxi it then just became get there you couldn't be
32:02competitive
32:03with each other you were just being competitive against mongolia it's the best way to put it is
32:07that you were fighting the elements i think like the temperature swing the whole way we figured out
32:11was like a 54 degree temperature swing from hottest to coldest and it's just i was looking forward to
32:16the the cold but maybe not that cold maybe i maybe i wish too hard for that like your clothes
32:22had to
32:23change yeah you close for italy greece and wild temperatures and then all of a sudden those clothes
32:30just kind of you should have just thrown them out we could have just thrown them out had less weight
32:34to carry no just layering up just layering up mongolia just wore the same outfit every single day yes
32:39i did yes and all your clothes yeah honestly did any change your clothes in mongolia because i didn't
32:45know but as somebody who's only kind of really gone on family holidays uh i really really struggled
32:52with the the did i have the ability to put a backpack on me and travel in that way uh
32:59always wanted to
33:00do it as a child always wanted to do it as a as a young person i never did it
33:04because it was pure want
33:05to do it but it was a fear yes kind of stopped you doing it before it was a physical
33:10test as well as a
33:11mental test one of the reasons i did lack self-confidence and in my ability to do it was
33:16was the heart attack and the heart attack put me back kind of mentally quite a bit i'm starting off
33:24consistently my god it'd be amazing for andrew the race became a way to see the world look at that
33:32molly
33:32absolutely stunning and prove his heart attack three years ago wouldn't hold him back i would always
33:40say to children uh in in class the world's your oyster go and enjoy it but i never lived it
33:46and
33:47i was always kind of a bit of a fraud that way you're sweating the relief of getting to that
34:00first
34:01checkpoint yeah and signing that book yeah give me the shot in the arm i looked at you and said
34:06we can do
34:07this the stamina's there we can enjoy it as well we could enjoy it it's my first train in italy
34:13molly
34:14you know my love of trains look at the striations of the rock the way they're going down the lines
34:18oh my god never seen these before ever different way of doing it total different way of doing beekeeping
34:25and there's your honey seeing the mountains seeing the landscape seeing where people live
34:30that's what i do that's what i love
34:34really looking forward to getting out in the kayak i have my own kayak
34:38at home but i've never actually used it because of my uh dickie ticker my dickie ticker so uh
34:44haven't been able to do it so yeah be lovely
34:51whoo out the open water look at those mountains
35:02i've wanted to do that for a long time kid
35:05to prove to me that i could uh it wasn't gonna get me
35:22it was so nice to kind of have the kayaking and like just that whole thing to us was just
35:28really
35:28special like you kind of have to cherish those moments it's very important to cherish those moments
35:33just enjoy it and that's i think i tried to say that to everyone i absolutely enjoy it
35:37we've actually been kayaking since i've actually booked a trip we're going to uh norway with my wife
35:45i think that whole rocky coast all the way up there would be unbelievable yeah
35:51and we've booked kayaking in the fjords oh wow that'll be beautiful
35:58i don't want to be stuck in a train station for molly the race was an opportunity to find
36:04her own path in life and prove her independence is there a bus to kiva bus no taxi taxi taxi
36:12i don't
36:13know what to do i don't know before the race i would have found it very difficult those big decisions
36:19i would have overthought it i would have i would have got annoyed myself especially if it went wrong
36:33well done good call yeah i do think now i am a wee bit more self-confident that contentment has
36:41come
36:41with my decisions people need their doctor to be confident because that's who you're looking to for
36:47answers so it's really nice to sleep at night and not have thoughts and thoughts and thoughts and
36:52thoughts it was a definite changing molly towards the end yeah there was a strong sense of more
36:58confidence yeah and 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
37:23as father and daughter and i think race the one thing that allowed us to prove to each other is
37:28we're a good team and that is we can make decisions we can have equal opinion and hold each other
37:35and
37:35be like yeah no that's good that's bad and communicate we've done we did it we did it all right
37:48so it'll be her daddy for the rest of my life but also it'll be uh it'll be more of
37:53a of a friendship
37:54and a pal yeah absolutely there's features of beauty isn't there yeah it's got stone look mega
38:05also looking to strengthen their bond and find a new dynamic in-laws mark and margot oh wow i'd
38:13love to have a go on one of these i know you come on you get one i get one
38:19going with mark though i i really wanted this but i i there was a little bit we weren't completely
38:24comfortable were we not at all no uh i found her annoying margot thought i was a boring
38:33old fogey basically judgy and boring judgy and boring yes yeah you may all know julie's
38:38last dying wish was that we became friends we continued and build on our friendship and that's
38:43what we did i love naples absolutely brilliant place i i hate it i loath naples i just didn't
38:51enjoy it at all i did think how's it going to go with mark how are we going to be
38:57on the race
38:57and i have to say some people were a little bit doubtful about the two of us doing it together
39:02they were a little bit why are you going with mark what in god's name it's a white cocoon what
39:10what's it for what did you what's it it's modesty so i just think it was ridiculous
39:17but as the race progressed we didn't have a care in the world did we not care in the world
39:22yeah try hitting it flat on like that oh okay okay
39:31yeah now we're talking now we are talking
39:39we're just two people enjoying the moment yeah and we were just having a
39:44a bit of a laugh weren't we really we were yes
39:49and it just organically just grew the last two legs of it was so hard in mongolia
39:57that's when the real it's the real cement between us because it's that's when it was
40:01we we were on our knees and we just and we needed each other and we both needed
40:05to really pull together didn't we and support each other yeah
40:25we're doing blue sky thinking today that's all we can do
40:38you know this determination to finish the side of margot i'd never seen before
40:43it's what kept me going just about do you go to harcorden yes oh god so kind thank you
40:50off we go we're doing it our way and we never ever give up as a team we've always
40:56always forged on we've always forged on and i'm so proud of her for doing that you know
41:02i would have given up i would have given up without margot being there i wouldn't give up on you
41:07though mark
41:07and they wouldn't and that was that was that's a sign of friendship uh here's to you julia wherever
41:13you are yeah who inspired us who inspired us thank you julia yeah thank you julia she's laughing
41:23for margot traveling 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 taking respite from her responsibilities like caring
41:42for her elderly mum since i've got back from the race i've been more centered it did feel like dorothy
41:50coming back in the wizard of art you know coming home and there is no place like home i was
41:54kind of
41:54in a way running away from my situation in life but now actually the determination i was applying to those
42:02challenges i've applied them to my life the bbc bbc yes race across the world to make things nicer to
42:12make things easier and so i'm living that best life but in liverpool oh my goodness for mark the race
42:20also
42:20became something more oh my god shifting his perspective on life itself it's unbelievable this
42:32wildness it's strange to say you know at 67 i was always embarrassed about doing things
42:37of what people might say what people might think i just couldn't care less now anyway because margot
42:43she's very open and very free and doesn't worry what people think about her and i've taken that on board
42:48you were first on the dance floor in sri lanka as well he led he led the party oh it
42:53was yes yeah
42:54the bailer yeah you know for us we were winners because we'd done what we wanted to set out to
43:00do
43:01and we'd won for julia that was the thing yes yes we are good good friends we're mates now we
43:06are yeah
43:07mates do you think you'd go on holiday again well we've been talking about it yes we have been talking
43:13about it yes and we'd like adventure we do want to we we we are definitely up for adventure like
43:17it's
43:18so nice that you have that relationship together and you've built that for julia like wherever she
43:23is now i'm sure she's very happy to see you both like this it's almost like she was on the
43:28race with
43:28you yeah she was on the race yeah it's a lovely legacy lovely legacy
43:40arriving in mongolia the filming teams faced one of the toughest environments the race had come up
43:47against navigating extreme weather and limited infrastructure after months of meticulous planning
44:01planning of mongolia it must be a huge endeavor for everyone we're here we're mongolia it's all very
44:07exciting we've got this massive map of uh the country that our level fixers have um lent us and we
44:13basically have just got all of the stops and the potential places we think that the cast might be
44:18headed we just need to make sure we know where all the teams are at all times to ensure safety
44:24production members keep the teams trackable and in sight whenever they travel by car
44:28and what are called follow vehicles so this is day 42 of race across the world and i'm in our
44:37sb
44:38following the cast and crew they are they are over here i'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
44:57here filming this it's in the middle of nowhere but i think we're in muggle there i actually
45:03currently can't hear them because we've got so many devices plugged into me we've got walkies we've got
45:10phones we've got garments currently the only way we can contact the sv is with our garmin so yes we're
45:19on our own
45:28right weather again we may need 620 minus 25 degrees it's going to be called stay covered properly yeah
45:42well while we're in here in mongolia it's cold during the day and even colder at night so we need
45:47quick access to extra layers after sunset from italy to mongolia we've gone from plus 30 down to minus 30
45:55which in itself brings new problems where italy was sunburn here with hypothermia
46:03to battle the sub-zero conditions everyone on the ground had to be equipped with extreme cold
46:09weather gear this is where we slept last night but the stove was off it's exceptionally lots of layers
46:16on it is quite extreme here the worst part of the entire night was doing snoring guys that's such a
46:21bit of that is your snoring you're snoring it's colder than than i had expected that about you
46:27the coats we had the outfits like we'd put your hood up and pull the zip ties and you'd literally
46:33have a
46:34little space like this to look through like it was it was it was fun yeah but i think i
46:40think i
46:40grossly underestimated how cold it was going to be ending in mongolia was just crazy it is so cold yeah
46:50oh my god where are you going we don't have a clue there's just such vastness and so many random
46:58things
46:59can happen so for the crew the amount of planning needed to try and get 10 idiots to race across
47:04the
47:04world is insane i mean when we when we started uh this whole journey we was all we always said
47:15we
47:15were like when we travel we want to live it but me and joe have never really we spent some
47:19time
47:19together being like little holidays but it's never been more than like what like a week two weeks we've
47:23ever spent at the same time and so it was nothing to what i'd imagined this is important slides are
47:31and these comfort comfort is your best friend those are old man shoes down there those are old man
47:38shoes oh eager to make every second count fresh out of college joe and cush wanted to explore life
47:45beyond the familiar world they were raised in by their mums in liverpool this is our plan this is our
47:52security which i'm going to be taken charge of we still need to be on it with kush sometimes
47:58because we've got our passports yeah yeah excuse me what are you trying to say
48:04livpool's a small place we've gone up the city don't get me wrong but it's kind of like you still
48:09don't scale it's how probably the world is i mean coming into this once we applied we realized we are
48:15probably going to be the youngest so i think with youth comes this uh this preconception of like a lack
48:22of
48:22maturity um lack of life experience we've seen ourselves as the underdogs we've seen ourselves
48:28as the yeah the least capable and i think it's flipped in it yes 3am in the morning i don't
48:39think any
48:39teams could have done it faster don't judge a book by his cover i think one thing about me and
48:45joe is
48:45we actually we're good at different things we work well with what the other person lacked is and like
48:49me i'm i sort of overthought a lot and i was like oh we have to do with everything and
48:53think of it in
48:53a specific way and some and joe would be like no just act do so that's where i would have
48:58probably
48:59held us back if i kept trying to plan everything i would still be in palermo if out if out
49:04if you
49:04weren't there but you you're behind the strategy you're like you're very calculated and i think
49:12i focus too much on the present whereas you look so far into the future it helped me see the
49:17finish line
49:17if that makes if that makes sense actually joe and kush i feel like you make the mistakes at the
49:23beginning and you learn from those mistakes early on and then you ace it for the final round which is
49:29what i think you guys basically did trying to beth yeah well especially being being last is a kick
49:34is kick up the kick up the ass you know what i mean although he sustained a drive to succeed
49:41uzbekistan this way she doesn't know he's gone oh my days kush struggled with his mental health
49:49we need to do for this price in no way oh i feel sick
49:56i think the race was probably the peak of my of my strolls when i was losing the most sleep
50:03the risk of making one wrong choice had such a impact you have a lot to worry about i'm gonna
50:10be
50:10thinking the entire night been such a rough day i had a lot of reminders of my dad and it
50:17dug up a lot
50:17of feelings that i hadn't dealt with we can still do this god we just can't give up i think
50:27a lot of the
50:27race involves how you cope with stress because if you let the stress get to you you will break and
50:34you can literally you could go home and you can't expect to go on a journey and expect it to
50:38be all
50:39fine but i know you're benefiting from venting just talking yeah
50:47i just really appreciate the fact that joe's always up for for sort of looking after me in a way
50:58i've started seeing a weekly counsellor just to help pro
50:59yeah i mean yeah i mean yeah he's my best mate
51:05but yeah we we kept each other saying we we we kept moving
51:11oh come on bro panel spin and we never gave up once
51:18what wait how did we do that bro
51:24i've started seeing a weekly counsellor just to help process my emotions and i think it's really
51:28really helped nothing to do with the race just in day-to-day life and now i can learn to
51:32handle
51:32myself a lot better but it's about learning yeah it likes learning and life's about learning and
51:37learning as you make as you go on better learn it now when you're younger yeah and when you're 67
51:44the one thing the race did teach as well is it is actually okay to ask for help i mean
51:47we couldn't
51:48have done it without asking for only hundreds of people help us on our journey i'm gonna pay them
51:54what are you serious yeah oh my god oh my god thank you so much you've been so much help
52:08how many times a week do you eat sardine five five times a week is that very strong yeah yes
52:15no gym
52:15no training nothing the people they met and the confidence they gained from them
52:24inspired joe to travel independently taking his first solo trip to the gambia
52:31i think yeah the the race definitely encouraged me to continue traveling and i don't think i would
52:36have gone to gambia without it i did get in contact with this family who owned a farm and they
52:42look
52:42for travelers to come help them work and in return they get food a shelter and a family to
52:49chill with and that's what i did and i did i explained how i wanted to explore explore my heritage
52:57and i think they they resonated with that they were they were very caring
53:02what would you like to do next what do you fancy doing we've got no no real plan at the
53:06moment in
53:07terms of if the future but i know that we both are going to travel we don't know where yet
53:11but
53:11yeah it's gonna happen at 19 years old you guys have accomplished something so major in your life
53:17i wish i was doing the stuff like this when i was 19 i was just revising for exams
53:22that's my whole life honestly so proud of you
53:26so proud of you from the bottom of our hearts genuinely let's go let's go this is it bro
53:36it was tough and it's amazing to know that we we can get through it and uh succeed three two
53:45one
53:53i feel this race is bigger than the degree you're you're actually joking
54:06the biggest thing i've taken from the race is that uh life's to be lived
54:11and go and enjoy it it's not all be all end all yeah like there is another way and actually
54:17the
54:17winds end up being a lot sweeter because you've dealt with the low you can just do whatever you want
54:22and the world is there to be seen and put your phone down and actually listen to people can i
54:29take
54:29you into school and say that
54:32i've got a question for everyone would would you do it again yeah absolutely absolutely yeah i'd pay
54:40a lot of money to do it oh nice
54:56it's gorgeous young single available full of dumpling what more could you want
55:05oh where are we going
55:09it's definitely the most beautiful drivers i've ever been on my end's highlight wow it's almost
55:13mystical isn't it oh my teeny microphone oh look there's one there oh it's huge
55:22you're right i love it i'm very proud of us i'm proud i'm proud i think absolutely
55:28the end who did you what are you doing oh oh my god oh my god you have won
55:38you did it you won
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