Ep. 318: South America Bike Tour - Anna McNuff & Faye Shepherd - Part 2
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2017
⏱️ 53 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 | It was all right, actually, in the end, I think. |
| 0:02.1 | I think we both had our strengths and also our weaknesses, |
| 0:07.8 | but we sort of balanced each other out and got on really well in terms of our fitness. |
| 0:15.3 | Episode 318, a South America bike tour with Anna McN and Faye Shepard, Part 2. |
| 0:21.4 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:25.6 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:33.9 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:59.7 | Different people that have chosen to go on major adventures together. they always have a perspective in the beginning and then obviously during the adventure itself. |
| 1:09.6 | And then when they look back, you know, on the adventure, they all have a different perspective a little bit about how they manage the relationship because it's hard when you're putting yourselves through such |
| 1:11.4 | difficult times it makes people really real really raw you can't you can't fake it anymore you're |
| 1:18.3 | going to be who you are right yeah and so different people have had different strategies on how just |
| 1:24.7 | to get along and i'm curious did you to decide anything in advance on how to manage disagreements? |
| 1:32.5 | Not really in advance. |
| 1:34.0 | Not that I can remember. |
| 1:36.3 | I mean, Anna and I, like, we knew each other. |
| 1:38.7 | Obviously, we met each other in New Zealand and we hung out beforehand, but we weren't |
| 1:43.8 | super close before. |
| 1:45.3 | But I think Anna hit hit the nail on the head, really, when I sort of asked, like, |
| 1:51.0 | why, why, why, why did you, you know, call me and ask if I, if I wanted to go? |
| 1:58.2 | And I think, I think, if you know that the, the core values of |
| 2:03.0 | someone is, is, is generally good. I know Anna's a kind, a good person, then the rest, the peripheral |
| 2:11.3 | stuff doesn't, doesn't really matter. And you can make it work. And so with her saying that, that really hit home. |
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