today i'm in wales because my best mate chris is attempting to ride seven everests in seven
days that's 8 849 vertical meters every day the climb he's chosen to do it on is called
stilam dam no that's not right still i'm down and so far things haven't exactly gone to plan
hey jimmy are you drinking beers later yeah all my certainly all right i told josh to bring these
what's been going down chris has been riding his bike for 14 hours a day to raise as much money for
charity and awareness for people about suicide prevention i feel like i've been riding a bike
for 14 hours a day naturally i turned up late so we're six days into this challenge and a lot of
things have happened a lot of things have happened day one the weather was absolutely atrocious i got
here about three o'clock and chris was in bits he wasn't eating food it wasn't getting in or
it wasn't absorbing it properly chucked him on the turbo and we just grinded out the day it was
miserable and horrible but he hit the everest elevation day two we had him on the turbo for
probably about half of the day on and off it was all about recovering from day one he wasn't happy
he went about a thousand meters under elevation that was the day that we also decided to not make
it about doing an everest every day and just make it about doing as much riding as you possibly do
between 6 a.m and 10 p.m every single day for the whole seven days and just see where we get to the
challenge and the inspiration for people and the cause was way more important than actually just
hitting a number every day we leave his food and drink supplies up by a gate at the start of the
climb and there was a day where chris got back to replenish his supplies and all of his stuff
was gone he phoned through i ran up there and confirmed it was gone i wasn't sure if he was
just delirious or not so we assumed everything was stolen it was basically all of his food
and eight water bottles that we were using just to keep replenishing someone came over with some
replacement put out a post on the local facebook group and it turns out that someone saw the box
thought it was abandoned took it to load the local food bank and donated it the food bank saw
the post and we're like oh that's the guy doing the everest i should probably get in touch with
him give it back so we got it all back and we're gonna make a donation to the food bank because we
felt really bad for taking food from them every day is different um some days i think one or two
days he's done more turbos than outside but he had as he's done more outside so we're taking it day
by day for definite yesterday was the first day that we introduced day time sleep into his day
and it's made well yesterday it made a huge huge difference so he probably had four or
five 20-minute naps i was limited to 20 minutes and then yesterday is the second day within the
challenge that he's hit and everest and he actually went over by a thousand meters so
yes there's absolutely massive as with everything that seems to happen in this space everything has
a knock-on effect and he is not very happy today he is very miserable i'm just out of here shot
of chris and this hill is savage the only shallow gradient has a massive headwind on it apparently
it's been a headwind for the whole last six days of riding and then the other bits are like 11 12
so there's no real break savage savage hill choice i've had a really good idea okay i think
the residents of the hill the sheep yeah i think they should tow chris up i think it's their duty
so we've got some spare inner tubes who's got the best engineering brain here the farmer that
owns the sheep on this hill me and jimmy were chatting to him and he was covered in blood
and it was really weird and he was really nice in the end you're literally standing in [ __ ]
good morning and welcome to today's video i'm still am damn and we're riding up france's cade 33
times today hi i'm franciscade welcome to today's video no good morning and welcome to today's video
even in restaurants
dinner doesn't matter where it is
mr creosote that's mr cruz
i think many people know in 2020 at the trenching challenge of box hill which was descending
and climbing the depth of the mariana trench to kind of highlight mental health awareness
and the notion of spiraling downwards and then being able to climb out of it again and that
there's always a way in a support network to help you climb out this kind of followed on
from that the thing that's really important to talk about on the mental health side is people
struggle seven days a week i wanted to try and attempt to see if i could potentially
do seven everest in seven days which is always going to be a push but at the end of the day
it was about getting people's attention to then get people to talk and i think
that's happened and ultimately trying to fundraise for movember and the incredible work that they do
in supporting mental health awareness and men's mental health because us guys are [ __ ] at
talking about how we're feeling and expressing it and we're also you know the highest suicide rate
in the uk is guys my age and it's 91 men a week which is quite scary but ultimately
i'm doing this to try and get people to reach out to someone they maybe haven't heard from
from a while send a text drop them a phone call because you could change someone's day and then
you could change someone's life from something that's so simple and takes you 30 seconds and i'm
out of breath oh nice good chris i heard about the challenge and i just thought i had to do something
to impress him so uh last week he's still fresh scavy he looks impressed
he really loves music so much we got this we got this just one more day
i think we broke it chris looks in better shape than you yeah
i think that's what's sending me down at home on the whiteboard today francis
is each elevation for the day and then a running total of how far of ahead he is
day one eight eight five one day two seven five four nine day three six four zero three i think
day four six five zero one do you want him to say this it's been around the entire time
i think he's got i think he's gone blind after the nose please no nosebleed earlier today we were a
little bit worried but we told him to get back on the turnpike it was yesterday yesterday it wasn't
it was yesterday chris
he started three blind mice no no no no three blind mice ever rested on the turbo trainer okay
this is the worst idea ever oh wow can you fart into one of them
yeah great conditions for today you say surfing it's not skateboarding
day seven and the final day of the challenge it is now raining
a lot so this is the the yellow bottle which holds the stick at mix 90 so we give him a few
bottles of this and every time he has a bottle of this he also has a black bottle which is usually
just water or we add some of the sticker salts in there as well and then we just keep replacing
these throughout the entire day how many do you think he's getting through probably like
several like four or five of each has what you've craved changed throughout the challenge yes
uh i'm on the savoury train yeah now sick of sweet stuff but it's changing like sometimes i just
don't want anything and then it'll be something like a piece square of cheese you know it's
random and it's just the case of trying to eat whatever wherever i can to be honest a lot of
the time i'm just shoving [ __ ] down my mouth but we're doing quite a lot in liquid which is
is like easy calories if that makes sense easy carbs oh marshall watch your foot
what was that i think we might have mentioned or not that we made it not about the elevation
and just about getting through the day so it was basically how much elevation could he do between
6 a.m and 10 p.m every day we got to 10 p.m and basically pulled him off day one we hit an everest
but it was really a bad day day two and three got worse and worse and the elevation was going down
day four he started to pull it back again and went up slightly but still it wasn't an evidence
for two three and four he did not everest day five we were back in business yesterday
focus was hit everest pulling straight off the bike today getting through the day
hitting everest if we can get four out of seven that's just like can you imagine i know like
realistically seven and seven i was kind of like it's not gonna happen four out of seven like that
still bonkers bearing in mind that's also doing three days on top of that where he nearly everest
have there been any days with no rain yet so far i don't think so i genuinely don't i don't think so
so somehow um we've made friends with the people from the power station who've given us the key
very little argument very little argument i think in the words of the guy he was like
i don't really care just give it back at the end of the day usually this climb is completely closed
uh to cars and it's just like a service road used to go up to the dam i guess
so there's lots of people here on bikes and on long boards yesterday who are very disappointed
to see you know we've got a key and are ruining their lovely carlos experience but you know
charity so it's allowed i'm the gatekeeper are you friends with the power station man now yeah um
i can't tell any horrible things i had to do to get that key on the scarf for life
but
so
it's ridden higher than military jet aircrafts can go past the stratosphere into the thermosphere
i don't know what any of those mean he's pretty high how high is the shard i think he's written
half of the shot how many shots oh how many shots the shot's 310 meters so it's the shard
stacked on top of each other 167 times he's written up box hill 403 times yeah i thought
we weren't won that game couple more that's why chris is not very well today as you can see
oh
see boys
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