We’re mountain biking in the HIMALAYAS _ MTB Nepal.

I can hardly believe it myself, but I'm mountain biking in the Himalayas, the biggest of the big mountains. Thanks to my good buddy Matt Yackey ahead. This is a guided trip with wandering wheels. He has been out here scouting for eight years to put together a badass mountain bike trip like this. Oh, that goat didn't make it. That was a fetus. Never seen that on the trail. We are up above 12,000 feet and climbing and I'm talking. We've got one of the highest mountains in the world up ahead on the left. It's in the clouds. Dhalagiri, almost 27,000 feet. Over here on the far left is Nilagiri. A little slippy. Keep it easy. Unreal. Everything in my life has been leading up to this moment. Crazy. The mountain up ahead on the left here, 23,000 feet, first summited in October 1962. Took them 28 days to get to the top and it has not been summited again since 1990. Some Japanese guys tried it last year, had to turn around. There is some adventure left in this world when you hear about Mount Everest and what a 400, 500 people go up in a year. Not so much with Dhalagiri. Not quite a cliff off to the left, but if you fell you'd be rolling for a little while. Amazing. Feels like Arizona. Feels pretty nice. I layered up for sure. Got two shirts, got my leggings on, full pants, gloves, ready for anything. My red jacket that I've taken with me all over the world. Everybody's been letting a lot of air out of their tires because of all this like kind of harsh stuff, but nope, I'm keeping it. I'm not flattening out. The first real rock we hit, everyone's gonna blow a wheel. Yeah, Dhalagiri pokes out up ahead. I think it's one of the top 10 tallest mountains in the world. Maybe top five. If Everest is like 27.9 and this is 26.9, not much of a difference. This is the Mustang Valley. Well, this valley actually is probably something different, but we're basing ourselves out of the Mustang Valley. We did see possibly a wild horse. It was looking pretty rough. There ain't much to eat out here. Wow. Uh-oh, that sun's going away. Goodbye, sun. So this is the trail up to Tilicho Lake, which is the world's highest and largest lake. Probably a two-day hike from right here. There's lakes that are higher, but none is bigger. We're running that clean air today down in Kathmandu. That air quality was pretty tough. Actually, not that bad. I didn't feel like I was coughing or anything. Maybe that first day my throat got a little dry. My favorite part is, you know, the outdoor air quality. Not that great. And then you go into a shop and they're burning incense and you can hardly breathe. The indoor air quality is like horrific. What's also funny about the air quality thing is during the California wildfires and the air quality, AQI was off the charts. They were like eight hours of exposure to this air quality is the equivalent of smoking three cigarettes. And even as someone who hates cigarettes will never smoke a cigarette, that ain't nothing. Three cigarettes. We're getting all worried about masks and all that stuff for three cigarettes. I think my lungs will be okay. Now, burning incense all day inside of a shop, that's a little different. I wear a mask for that. When Matt's putting a foot down, I should be putting a foot down. Got my nose wheelies down. That was probably the best one I've ever done. Even when it's cold out, you still need to stay on top of your hydration, your electrolytes, and there is only one way to do it with the best electrolyte drink mix in the business. My biggest problem before I found Element, before I dialed in my electrolytes, was hours after a big day on the bike, I would start getting a splitting headache. And you're like, okay, I'm dehydrated. I just need more water. But more water did not always fix the problem. You don't have your electrolytes dialed in. You might be diluting with more water. 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I doubt we're going to have another sighting, but I'm sure we'll see a lot of other stuff. Wow. Look at that one up to the right. The light is on. Probably only 22,000 feet. Whoa, that could have shredded my wheel. It's a little rocky. Trekking is the big thing in Nepal for tourism. Big multi-day hikes. Sounds like a lot of work. Into the beach. You got the mountains, you got the sand. Oh yeah, here was the wild horse. It's got a collar on. Surviving. Barely surviving. Well, I guess you could see my ribs too, so coming in hot. Oh, almost lost it. My buddy Dan. Great to ride with him again. Nice. It's like Bentonville. Namaste. Oh, love those things. The Mani Buddhist Zen. You spin those things and it centers you. It brings you into the now. This is our guide Om up ahead. Local shredder. And just in case you missed the previous videos, we're in the country of Nepal. Big old mountain bike trip. Did a few days down in the Kathmandu area and now we're in the Mustang Valley. Many more days of riding to come. We're all hanging on. We're all surviving. These big trips are always heavy duty, but I love them. Hey, we might see a yak at some point. I don't have the best track record with the yak. Oh, yeah. Looking a little dangerous here. Oh, get back. Go. Keep going. Yeah. To the river. We loaded up the trucks and headed into Kagbeni to drop off some stuff at our accommodation and have lunch. The proper name for this place is the Hotel Mustang Getaway, but the restaurant and what everybody called it is Yak Donald's. And when you're at Yak Donald's, you have got to get the happy meal, a big old delicious yak burger, fresh bun. The fries were amazing. And this orange cup of juice, it's sea buckthorn juice. And it was one of the biggest surprises of the trip. I'm not that adventurous when it comes to all the different foods and drinks and stuff, but this stuff was so good. I went on Amazon and I bought a bunch of seeds to try to plant some sea buckthorn bushes. We got a little weather rolling in. I don't mind the snow so much. Much better than the rain, especially for filming. Get a lot less wet. We're at 12,700 feet. So similar to Peru and Tibet. The high mountains. Oh, my mouth is gonna freeze over. Nope, it's my nose that's frozen over. See you later. Dusty and snowy at the same time. We saw a couple snow fields on the way up and that's when the snow sticks the whole year. I was wondering what the difference between that and a glacier was. Glacier is a snow field that turns into ice and starts to move under its own weight. And now I'm out of breath from talking. Two-wheel drift. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's a left. A couple different lines. Wow. Amazing. Ah, nice. I keep saying my right turns are better than my left, but that wasn't very good. Big mountains. Yeah. Pretty cold riding. Our fingers are all getting a little frozen. I don't mind this at all. It's not that bad until someone gets a flat and we all have to stand around for like an hour or something. Then it's brutal. Matt said he's been up here a bunch and it's never been this cold. It's a rarity. So when you go take this trip, link in the description if you want to check it out. It'll be beautiful. You'll be getting sunburned. Drifty. Wow. It's like a cartoon. That dust. The rocket ship. Oh, yeah. No jumping allowed. A little too windy. Oh, yeah. Man, it just looks fast when Matt's just dicing through there. That was crazy, kid. Rocket ship. Oh, I'm sure you could have. I could not. That was perfect. Those big mountains in the background. Unreal. There's the sun. I see it. Yeah. Wow. Oh, almost ready to let off. There we go. Probably could have let some air out of the tires, to be honest. I'm just so bad at hitting hard rocks, square edges. I am enjoying this. It's like pain and pleasure supreme. The snow is actually making it pretty cool. Full focus. It's nice and soft, actually. You dig in. Oh, good stuff. Thank you, sir. We've still got one big, crazy adventure lap to go, and we were ready for this day of riding because we had just had a rest day in Pokhara. We flew from Kathmandu to Pokhara, had some good meals, had a nice little day of rest. And then on this morning of riding, we actually got in this tiny little plane and flew from Pokhara to Jomsom. It's like a 15 minute flight. But in previous years, it would have been a five or six hour drive. They're actually making the road a little bit better. So it's more like a three or four hour drive now. But it was nice to fly up to the Mustang Valley. The cloud just rolled right in on us. We could see the big mountains there for a moment. Oh, marble. Oh, big rock to the foot. I got to climb. So this is the Mustang Valley. This is what it's like a couple spots back. Yeah. No dust. Going for style over speed. There's Samir, one of our awesome guides. Here comes the sun. I see it. The sounds. Yeah, that is so cool. It's a little bit of Utah right there. That's a beautiful thing. Through the nooks and crannies. Namaste. Love it. So cool. Wild horse, maybe. Oh, don't give me that bad body language. Oh, man. Big mountains. They're even bigger when the clouds are gone. Maybe tomorrow we'll get a nice, clean view. I got to look down through the bridge now. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm looking down. That's great. Head on over to the Patreon if you want to directly support the channel and get these videos early and extended. This video is one hour long on Patreon. If not, I'll see you next week or I'll see you on the trail.