Ride Earth

Episode Four of the Ride Earth video podcast is now available for viewing. Road Kill Duck for dinner and Tom suffers his first injury, tensions in the group continue to rise as Tom and Andy take it in turns to get lost. The boys meet the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) and get some insight into local climate change.

You can subscribe for free on iTunes or watch on the podcast page at www.ride-earth.org.uk/podcast/episode-four-switzerland-to-austria.

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The String Films Team

Its been six weeks now and I’m settling in to the lifestyle. Each day is is a mind expanding experience. The creature comforts such as shower, comfortable bed, etc that I was once used to are now an occassional luxury. Each day is limited only by our own decisions in each moment, leading us off down a new path of chance meetings and opportunities.

When I last blogged we were still in Belgium. We travelled through France to Switzerland and stayed with our WWF contact in Geneva where we took the opportunity to rest for a couple of days. The arrival to Geneva was suitably dramatic with a knee poppingly steep ascent of the Jura Ridgeway and a bitterly cold heart-in-mouth nighttime descent, with view over moonlight alps, towards an illuminated buzzing Geneva.

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Andy, Mark and myself are all obsessed with the great outdoors. We all want to escape the life spent walled in and connect with the world outside, which is part of the reason we’ve all devoted our lives to this expedition. A few months ago, I met someone who had devoted his life to the growing environmental cause, and through this shared interest, we are very excited to have teamed up with WWF, one of the world’s largest and most respected independent conservation organizations. Observing and reporting worldwide climate-change issues and visiting conservation projects will be amongst the ways in which we will be working with the WWF to raise awareness of sustainability- and climate-related issues all over the world.

We would also like to welcome Kona on board as our bike sponsors. The Kona Explosif will be put to the ultimate test over the next few years - an unenviable task for any bike! We’re hoping that our bike-related research will pay off and that our journey will be - mechanically at least - relatively trouble-free!