Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman prepare for their epic adventure, including lessons for kidnap avoidance, fitness training, first aid instruction and vaccinations.
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman continue to make preparations for their trip, heading for Wales for some much-needed off-road motorcycle training. Getting reading to start the journey, everybody scrambles to make last minute plans.
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman make the first extended stop of their journey in Prague, before continuing onward to the Ukrainian border where a simple crossing turns into a 12-hour nightmare.
Ewan and Charley are in for a fright after one of the locals points a gun at them. After riding along some of the worst-kept roads in the world and admiring some of the country's native woolly camels,
After the dilapidated roads the pair experienced in Kazakhstan, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are disheartened when they find no roads at all en route to Mongolia. Bad luck occurs when there's a bike break down and their support team gets into a dangerous accident.
The team is forced to buy crew member Claudio a new bike, and in the Mongolian city of Ulan Bator, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are taken on a tour of the sewers meeting with runaway children. Then to Siberia where a 24-hour train ride turns out to be a bad idea.
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman run into some difficulty in Siberia. With unwelcoming locals, impassable rivers, collapsed bridges and a lack of food, they find themselves facing a real fight for survival. A convoy of Russian trucks offers some hope.
