Ep. 770: The Highest Mountain Bike Race in the World - Tyler Mcmahon
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Mountain Biking: Tyler Races Bikes in Himalayan Nepal – Life-Changing Trip Leads to Rainwater Harvesting Projects for Nepalese Families. When Tyler first visited Nepal he had no idea the trip would change his life and work. While bike racing through the Himalayan Mountains he saw an opportunity that would change his life of adventure but the lives of many Nepalese families, rainwater.
Learn more about what Tyler does with racing and raining in Nepal on today’s episode and at the links below.
The Yak Attack Race: mtb-worldwide.com
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| 0:00.0 | So it's really diverse. |
| 0:02.0 | It's not as hard as I just made it sound to encourage other people to participate because we've actually seen a lot of people set a goal for a year out and do the race. |
| 0:12.0 | A lot of people who are moderate mountain bikers. Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely. |
| 0:35.4 | Gosh, it's my first episode back from being back from the |
| 0:39.3 | outdoor media summit out in Colorado. It was awesome. You know, it was a big get-together of |
| 0:44.5 | folks in outdoor media from podcast hosts, bloggers, journalists, you know, CEOs, all kinds of |
| 0:52.5 | cool stuff from brands, folks from publications, |
| 0:56.2 | people from travel bureaus of different towns across America. It was really cool. And they did |
| 1:02.5 | some awards in your show, Adventure Sports Podcasts, one best podcast episode of the year for one of the |
| 1:09.8 | episodes we did. So thanks to you for listening and making |
| 1:14.4 | this show happen. Honestly, it's all due to the audience. But yeah, it's pretty cool to see that |
| 1:19.2 | and see some of the other shows in the industry and how, yeah, how folks are spreading the word |
| 1:24.2 | about adventure sports and about adventure in general and about basically just getting outside. And today's episode, we're talking to Tyler McMahon. And he is, |
| 1:33.0 | he's an interesting dude. I met him through athletic brewing. That's my day job, by the way. |
| 1:38.0 | He's one of our ambassadors for full transparency. But we were talking off, you know, off the side |
| 1:42.9 | about this race he does called the yak attack in Nepal. He's been doing it for like six or seven years now. And it's |
| 1:49.9 | the world's highest mountain bike race. And it takes place right up there near Everest Base Camp. |
| 1:55.8 | It's a multi-stage race. It's an enduro. It's timed. It's, it's incredible. Makes me want to go, but it's going to be |
| 2:03.5 | happening next month. So I think there's a way to follow along. There's some links in the show |
| 2:08.4 | notes if you're interested in learning more about it. But we're just going to talk about that, |
| 2:12.4 | talk about what it's like to live and work in Nepal. Tyler has just fallen in love with Nepal and literally married |
| 2:19.5 | someone from Nepal and also owns a business there where he has employees and is always talking |
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