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Day 144 - 155: Medellin to Faro Punta Gallinas
12984kms (8036 miles) from Ushuaia Five and half months ago the Upping the Andes team embarked on a journey of epic proportions. Our...
Day 123 - 144: Machala - Medellin
11,800km from Ushuaia 'Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be...
Day 99 - 123: Cusco to Machala
10,100kms from Ushuaia Although this leg may well have surpassed the previous leg in terms of the difficulty of the cycling, it has also...
Day 72 – 94: 'Salta – Cusco'
7,589km from Ushuaia We have made it to Cusco!! 7,589km from Ushuaia, 59,365 vertical metres climbed (over 7 times the height of...
Day 55 – 72: Santiago - Salta
5626km from Fin Del Mundo With the stresses of our lengthy stop off in Santiago behind us we left the amazingly kind and extended...
Day 35 – 55: Stage 2 – ‘Puerto Montt - Santiago’
4005km from Fin Del Mundo Twenty days since Puerto Montt and the end of the Carretera Austral the UTA team have made it to Santiago!...
Day 21 – 35: Stage 2 – ‘The Carretera Austral’
2500km from Ushuaia... ‘You are the four crazy British boys doing over 100km days on the Carretera Austral’. These were the words of one...
Day 9-20. Punta Arenas to Villa O'Higgins
Finally the wind has been in our favour! After such a tough opening week and a half it was a huge relief that as we left Punta Arenas the...
Day 2-8. The Winds of Patagonia.
Punta Arenas. We set out from Ushuaia full of hope, energy, and maybe even a little big for our boots. However, it’s fair to say that we...
Day 1. ‘’Fin Del Mundo’’ Ushuaia.
Here We Go! ‘’Let’s cycle the length of South America’’… It seemed farcical at the time that four fairly normal young men (all be it with...
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