Ep. 317: South America Bike Tour - Anna McNuff & Faye Shepherd - Part 1
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In October 2016 Anna McNuff saddled up on a bike called Bernard and set off as part of a two-woman team on a mission to explore some of the most beautiful and remote areas of the Southern Andes.
Side by side, she and her friend Faye Shepherd spent 184 days pedaling their way 5,500 miles through Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. From the bustling city of La Paz, all the way down to Ushuaia – the last sizeable chunk of land before you reach Antarctica. Far from taking the shortest, most direct route, they sought the most mountainous course possible. By the time they returned to the UK in spring 2017 they had ascended over 100,000 metres – equivalent to 11 times the height of Everest – on their bicycles.
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| 0:00.0 | We went to sleep that night and woke up the next morning and Anna was, Anna shouted from her tent, |
| 0:04.9 | Faye, are you all right? |
| 0:06.3 | I was like, yeah, I think, I think I'm okay. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm okay. |
| 0:10.0 | And so we, we took our bikes and then spent the next, well, the rest of that day attempting to summit or cycle up the highest road in the world. |
| 0:21.4 | Episode 317, the South American bike tour with Anna McNuff and Fay Shepard, Part 1. |
| 0:27.9 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:32.3 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the |
| 0:37.8 | outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:55.9 | Hello friends. |
| 0:59.9 | Thank you so much again for listening to the Adventure Sports podcast today. |
| 1:06.5 | I have one of our favorite returning guests on the phone with one of her best friends. |
| 1:15.0 | Anna McNuff is here with Faye Shepard to share with us their amazing cycling trip through the Andes of South America. |
| 1:26.3 | They took this trip from the 10th of October through the 11th of April, you know, bridging winter for the northern hemisphere, which was, of course, summer for the southern hemisphere. |
| 1:29.5 | I'm really excited to visit about that trip. Let me give you a little bit of the background on these two ladies. First, Anna McNuff, |
| 1:33.9 | she's been on the show before. Anna is the one who biked through all 50 U.S. states, |
| 1:40.1 | who ran unsupported or self-supported, both islands of New Zealand. |
| 1:47.0 | And she did other things like we had Anna on the show to talk about going across Europe by social media. |
| 1:53.3 | I believe it's what we called that. |
| 1:54.5 | She said, Beyond My Backgate is what she called it. |
| 1:56.9 | But that's where people on social media voted where she should go as she traveled, |
| 2:01.7 | and it was an amazing, fun adventures, so very adventurous lady. |
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