Buttock Destroying Off-Road Unicycle Touring | Unicycling Across China [Ep.22]

Ed and I are trying to kill ourselves there. It's not middle of November and cold enough to freeze your water in your bottles by playing some tropical Jamaican style tunes. This one. You're hot, I'm hot. We're feeling hot. So cold! My hands are... I can't feel them. I'm going to wear some gloves now. Oh, my nose as well. I need a little nose glove. Good morning. Long downhill this morning. I'm sure Will is having a lot of fun whizzing down this hill. That's for me. I'm going down at my slow pace because I can't free wheel. Just going slowly. Enjoying the sun. Enjoying the mountains. Yeah, really beautiful out here. And it's good because we slept up at 3,600 metres last night. And now we're dropping. I think at the moment we're at about 3,400 metres. And we're just going to keep going down. I think maybe to 2,500. And we're going to stick around there for the next few days. And that's great because it's been getting mighty cold in the mornings and in the evenings and at night, obviously. It's just been getting so, so chilly. Even last night inside our water bottles froze. And there we are. That's all part of it. And to be honest, what did we expect? Cycling up at 3,800 metres in mid-November in China. Look at this! Jeez! Cool, we've got some fireworks in our campsite tonight. Will and I have been following the G213 for about 500 miles now. And we've got just under 200 miles until we get into Chengdu. Until the centre of Chengdu. Which is pretty exciting. It feels like we're on the home run now, home stretch. Seems to be a lot of meat hanging up around here. I think it's salted. I think it's pig. I like pig. Exciting stuff on the G213. Just bought some pig. Looking forward to that tonight. Day-to-day game of trying to find somewhere to camp. Nice. So, we've got some pig, got some pork that I bought earlier. Prepared this out. You were given. I was given, yeah. Free pork. Amazing people. Come to China. They gave me a free apple as well. Same people. So I got free pork, which I think has been smoked and cured. Going to fry it up with some rice. And I think Will's going to do... What are you going to do, Will? I've got the really hard part of the cooking. I'm boiling water. I know my limits. Are we going to do some hot chocolate? Yeah, I'm on dessert. What's the dessert chef called? Dessert chef? Yeah, I'm the dessert chef. 100 miles, 160 kilometres, somewhere like that from Chengdu. We've got a choice today whether we want to take a kind of mountainous, hilly road staying on the G213 or if we want to head on the bigger road and go through a tunnel. I think we're going for the big mountain road, aren't we? With a lot of switchbacks. Yeah. So, that should be fun. There's Will over there doing some extreme filming. I think he wants to set up the camera over here and then shoot our bridge here. It's already 2 o'clock and we've only done about 15 miles. But it's fun, you know? This is one of the reasons why I'm out here cycling. I love making these videos. I love filming. So, what if we do a shorter day? It's been good. We're both happy. I think that's what's good about riding with Will. He has a similar mentality to me. We like just having fun and distance doesn't really matter. Taking good photos and taking good videos seems to matter more to us. So, I think in this respect we're quite a good match. We've been getting along quite well. With another person that's like, we've got to do distance, we've got to do distance. They get so annoyed with me because I'm always stopping and taking photos and videos. But it's nice that I just come around this corner and Will's out there on the bridge. I'm not the only one filming. He's doing a lot of shots as well. Which makes life easier for me and it's much more fun when someone else is enjoying doing the same thing you're doing. Enjoying travelling in the same way that you're travelling. He's been a good partner. Good cycling partner. Not lover partner. Although we did spend one night in a chilly shepherd's hut. But the less said about that night, the better I think. Did you look at the shot? Cool. Nice. Get a shot of these massive bridges we're going over. See if we can't get a video going through the tunnel. Alright, it's clear! Okay, let's ride through the tunnel. The road has just run out. There seems to be a lot of building work going on. I'm not quite sure which way to go. Look at this! That was a lovely road. And now it's just a mess. They told me it's around there. They said you either go on the main road or we go around here. Apparently the right way is this way. I think it's going to get bumpy. There's Will. Nice and quiet anyway. Originally he kind of said no when he said we go around and I said can we just walk? And he said okay. So we'll check it out. Let's check out the tunnel. It's not as bad as I thought it would be. No, it's a bit windy though. No, no. I think we should keep going. I reckon it'll link up. Three. Jesus! We'll see how long it lasts. Going through another tunnel we probably shouldn't be going through. It said it was only 700 metres. Wait, wait, wait. There's the end. Looks like it's blocked off. This road was looking so promising and now it's just turned to a building site. Look at all this. That's the tunnel we came through. Will's trying to ask. Yeah? Okay, cool. That way it is. The road went bad. There's a lot of thistles here. The road went bad and then it went dark and now it's getting cold and we need to find somewhere to put our tents. This might do. This is scary. Ni hao. Hello. Holy moly. Hello. Ni hao. Hello. My heart is legitimately racing here. This is a freaky freaky place. But it's warm. Oh my lord. Those were two rooms over there and then walking down this corridor. Scary stuff. Further tunnel down there. This looks like a third room. That is so good. That's going to scare somebody wicked. Try again. Second time lucky. Can I come with you for one minute? Hey up. Me again. So on this trip I've frequently been asked Ed, unicycling around the world is great and all but are you doing it for a particular cause? It's funny, you should ask that Santa hat guy. Yes I am. I'm raising funds and awareness for the charity School on the Back. The team, based in Somerset, England manufacture, fill and distribute little red rucksacks and send them all over the world to children in dire need of learning resources. Every single red rucksack sent out contains exercise books lined, squared and plain pencils, colouring pencils pens in a pencil case, a ruler a maths set, a water bottle, a bowl, a plate and my favourite, a little red spork. The cost to manufacture, fill and deliver one school bag to one child is only £20, so if you can spare the money and would like to support this amazing initiative please head over to my charity donation page uk.virginmoneygiving.com slash worldunicycletour The link is in the description. If you enjoy my videos and want to be notified every time I upload a new one hit that little red subscribe button and if you could share this video it will help me reach a larger audience to share this message. Cheers and I'll see you next week for the next installment of Ed Unicycles China. Oh yeah! Check out what Will just found we've got a couple of kids shoes, we've got kids controller some track toy this bike, that's Will's bike but wow, people have been sitting around some posters No pranks no jokes they're like