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some people are insanely adventurous

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we're about 12 hours away from any

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hospital

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they enjoy taking risks just for fun and

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excitement

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meet these sensation seekers whose love

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of adrenaline will make you dizzy

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every year the world's most elite

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mountain bikers gather in france for a

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race unlike any other

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it's

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the longest

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tony race in the world

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that's right mcavalanch is the longest

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downhill race in the world

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18 miles long 10 000 feet high in the

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french alps and a crazy starting line of

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3 000 cyclists on a mountain peak

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this is remy absalon he won the

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mcavalence

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i started mountain bike when i was

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young enduro and mountain bike is

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really cool because we can explore all

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around the world

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mecca avalanche alpha u.s takes place

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since the french alps in halperduez so

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not so far of italy and switzerland

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it's

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really high in harps so you have a

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very good

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view 360 degrees

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around you

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it's really crazy i don't know why

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i do that

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you ride all kind of terrain first the

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glacier and after the rocky section the

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forest

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is very physical with

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some herpes so when you cross the line

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and you are first

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you're you're really happy and

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you want to try again

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i kind of compare it with being at a

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giant

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dog park some of them love it like you

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start giving them armpit scratches and

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they're just like giant dogs they just

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start rolling around and they're flying

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all around you but these animals are

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huge

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people are intimidated by them but once

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you once you learn their behavior

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they're just right into you right away

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they just look at you like a big chew

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toy

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i could never see myself living anywhere

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other than the pacific northwest

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i could literally spend every single day

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the rest of my life and never travel

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anywhere other than vancouver island and

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i would still never have enough time to

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see this whole place

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my first introduction to the ocean would

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have definitely come from my mom just

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made the sea lion right there later on

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in life realize it is a pretty unique

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experience to get to out and spend time

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with these animals on a regular basis

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sea lions are a large

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intelligent animal and they're very

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sensitive of what your intentions are

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and and how they choose to interact with

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you is totally their choice

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if you're comfortable and and they're

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inquisitive they'll come and they'll

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chew on your fans or they come up and

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they chew on the edge of your mask or

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give you big kisses on the lips or big

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hugs they wrap their fins around you and

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give you a big hug

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people get sketched out about it

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like i've had lots of people contact me

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and be like don't you think those things

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are aggressive

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just because an animal's putting its

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mouth on you doesn't mean it's doing it

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in a harmful way they don't have hands

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they can't explore their world with

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anything other than their mouth

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people that spend

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a lot of money to travel to the other

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side of the planet to watch a group of

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large migratory animals in africa or

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something say and here i can just go out

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on my boat and it's not something i take

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for granted at all anymore having the

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opportunity to do this

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the ultra 6633 is a 352

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mile long race across the arctic

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it's cold it didn't really get above -45

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it's long

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i think that took me 150 hours

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and most people

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don't finish it

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this is dave barrage he lives on the

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isle of wight this is a small island off

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the south coast of england

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and last year he won the ultra 6633

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so i'm talking to him about what it

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feels like

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to race across the arctic

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a typical marathon is 26.2 miles long

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so this is like 14 of them back to back

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the distance is isolating you're on your

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own for like two days at a time

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and with negative 45 degree temperatures

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it feels even longer

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everything up there is big there's just

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nothing to gauge distant spies nothing

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to judge anything by

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you can see nothing but white

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so you start to think am i asleep or am

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i dreaming this when am i actually

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moving it's like being in a painting

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it took dave six days to finish the race

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and he only slept

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a total of ten hours

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it's that exhaustion he says that causes

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you to lose your mind

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your mind just starts imagining all

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sorts i went through

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an avenue of trees and i thought i was

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going through a disco party and every

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time i approached somebody

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they stopped talking and just looked at

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me

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but you can't stop

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you've got to keep moving you think what

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on earth is that coming towards me and

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you know within two minutes you're

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shivering you shouldn't have stopped to

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look at something that's not there

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i achieved what i wanted to achieve and

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i finished it and i'm very grateful and

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very lucky to have finished it

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of all the races i've done it's one of

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the most mentally challenging

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races out there and it's probably the

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race that commands the most respect

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anybody who finishes that will well i

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would certainly

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they've got my admiration

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oh yeah

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a lot of people's reactions when we told

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them we were going to go basically to

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the north pole or on mountain bikes

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where

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are you bringing ice tires you know

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because most people think in the north

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pole they're like okay it's going to be

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cold in full snow they don't really

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realize that there's an arctic desert up

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there

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my name is daryn bearcloth i'm from

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vancouver island british columbia and

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i'm a professional mountain bike free

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rider

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free riding is all about picking your

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own line and being free to interpret the

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mountains in any way that you see fit

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thinking about starting on the horizon

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right there it'll be like a drop onto a

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rock slab

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the reason that we chose axel hybrid

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island was because the lines were

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massive it trumped anything that we ever

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ridden before in terms of height and

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just sheer scale

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all right boys all right yeah boys epic

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time

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one of the hardest parts about that

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whole trip was just its remoteness and

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how far it was from civilization

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if something goes wrong we're about 12

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hours away in the best case scenario

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from any hospital or serious help

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the landscape up in the high arctic was

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just it was breathtaking standing at the

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top of the line just

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soaking it all in it's

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it's a pretty rad feeling

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one thing that's amazing about mountain

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biking is the fact that you can take it

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anywhere you can climb mountains with it

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you can descend mountains with it you

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can travel long distances with it and

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you can stuff it in a box and fly it

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around the world

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to go up to the high arctic 400 miles

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south of the north pole and ride my

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bikes it's a pretty amazing thing to do

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and check that off the bucket list for

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sure

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