Exploring India: Altitude Sickness in the Himalayas

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Ready for another big adventure, Dustin Nere reunited with a good friend at the Delhi airport for a 2-month adventure in the Himalayas. Apart from booking flights, reserving a hotel for the first few nights, and reserving bikes in Dehradun, they had no real plan. They knew of only a couple of notable places that Dustin had read about, and they hoped they could connect the dots. To make things more interesting, they began the journey with two other Americans who were visiting India for just two weeks. In the first week, they experienced bike troubles, landslides and altitude sickness. They made poor decisions and they learned valuable lessons. Photos and links related to this episode can be found in the show notes. Adventure Rider Radio and RAW are the longest-running adventure motorcycle and travel podcasts and we remain committed to bringing you new and exciting episodes every Thursday. Never miss an episode, be sure to FOLLOW the show on your favourite podcast app. Have a show idea or suggestion, send us an email. We'd love to hear from you! If you can, we’d love to get your support, please visit the Support page on our website. Thank you for listening!

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0:00.0	Back in February of 2022, February 17th of 2022, we aired a story about a guy from
0:06.0	Loveland, Colorado who had up until then never done any travel. He wasn't
0:10.3	interested in travel. No one could even interest him in travel by talking about it.
0:15.8	That was until one day his friends offered their old DR 650 to him. Maybe he could have some
0:21.2	fun from it. Being recently divorced, he figured, well, why not? He'll give it a go. Well, that D.R. 650 changed his life because the next thing you know, he sold his house and jumped on the bike, headed Alaska with no real plan and ended up in
0:34.8	Usoya.
0:36.8	He eventually had to go back home and start learning a living again, but most recently he headed
0:41.8	off to India for a few months to explore the Himalayas and apart from booking flights and meeting a friend there maybe reserving a hotel for the first few nights
0:50.0	He had no real plan they only knew a couple of notable places that Dustin had read about and they hoped that they could sort of connect the dots.
0:58.0	To make things more interesting, they began the journey with two other Americans who were visiting for just two weeks.
1:04.0	In the first week they experienced bike troubles, landslides,
1:07.6	altitude sickness,
1:08.8	they made some poor decisions and learned some valuable lessons
1:12.4	and had a hell of an adventure.
1:15.0	I'm Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio.
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