 The Likewake Walk is a 40 mile challenge walk across the highest and widest parts of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park. The route remembers the many corpses carried over the moors on coughing routes and the ancient burial mounds encountered along the way. The name derives from alike, the corpse, and the wake, watching over the deceased. Join us as we take on this challenging hike through some of the most remote and beautiful landscapes that Yorkshire has to offer. And so here we are, literally just a couple of hours sleep by the side of a cattle grid. Luxury. Luxury living. There's just two candles in the night. We're just two little candles in the night, look at moment. We've parked Joe's car on the other side and then we've left my van in Osmotherly and we're heading up to the tops now. It is 25 past three, so we're a bit behind schedule and we've got over 40 miles ahead of us and it's still, it's quite warm now, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. It's pretty mild, isn't it? It's a mild one. It's going to be a tough gig because we're already sleep deprived and tired, but... There'll be some tears in there. Oh, there'll be tears, there'll be awkward silences, there'll be just seething rage. Bickering. Oh, we're fighting. It's lovely, it's a lovely evening actually to set off. This is perfect hiking. You've stayed this temperature all day, happy days. Night gates. We can't be mucking about with gates and stuff really. You've seen gorillas in the mist, there you go, gates in the mist. When we're walking, it's this stuff. It's flying by us as well, which makes it just a very strange sensation. It does feel like you're going in through warp speed, captain, you can just barely make you out of it mist. It looks like some sort of a horror movie. I wonder what it would have been like if we had no torches. Yeah, nah, no, it's not happening. Torches back on. The air's got really close and there's a definite change in temperature. There's a little bit of a heat wave at the moment. We're supposed to see highs if I think like 28, is it, hottest day of the year. Why do I always do it on the hottest day of the year? A trail that's notorious for having no water stops and no shelter. We're home. We've just goofed a little bit. It's our first goofing. Every major, maybe only about two minutes, but we can't afford to be doing these. But look how spooky this is. What would be the spookiest thing? What if you saw just like a child stood in the middle of the road in Victorian clothes? Is that spookiest? I've got to freak me out now. What would you do, run? I'd use my stick to get it. Kick shit out of it and then his mum and dad come out at the side like, what are you doing? We're going through a Victorian thing. We're doing it like we're at walk. It's his first ever walk. Traditional garb. He's crazy. We're getting sponsored thousands for doing it in traditional garb and you've just siphoned him down with your hiking poles. He's only eight. He's the reason we're doing it. You hit him and that comes off and he's bald. He's the reason we're doing it. Charity. Oh dear. I feel like seeing a child in Victorian clothes on this road is scarier than seeing, I don't know what you think. What about like a whale? That, yeah. I was just about to say that but then I was like I don't say that because we don't want to actually get scared. It's like about eight foot. Just like stood on two legs but clearly a wolf. Yeah. That's transitioned like half. A wolf in like Adidas tracky bottoms. Do you think we'll go for this? Yeah let's just do it. Yeah. There's no signs around. Well it's definitely off the map. There's no lock on that guys. That's just how it is. Do is no lock on it. What is it? It's a sock. It's a sock. Medic. So far so good though eh? No major incidents. Feeling fresh. Weather's good. I'm hoping like the sun should burn somewhat tiredness away maybe. 28 degree heat or sort is out. Oh is that an owl? Ground owl again. Ground owl. Little star mate. Potentially a planet. Potentially a UFO. Why is it moving like that? Look at it. It's moving down. Are we going to get abducted? Mate that's a UFO isn't it? That's it isn't it we're going to get. That's those probed. So if you find this footage well you're not going to find it because if we get taken up there. Imagine if they abducted us. If we look at footage and we're like these lads have got some of it. They're like these lads have got some of it here and then let's not kill them and like let's take them back to Motherland as entertainers. And then we're on like another planet. I mean to hike. Just with all the gear we've got now. We're basically ant and deck. Yeah we're into galactic ant and deck. It's like the Truman show we've just got a hike around this mad alien planet. And they just watch us. We don't know any plants. We don't know any animals. Is it safe? It looks cute. It's changed into some. He's going off at bridge and I'll film you off at bridge. Look at that. No bridge. Not many people cross this anymore. No. You're going to find out why. Not many people cross this anymore. It's stung. Bramble. There we go. Murder band. Look at that. That's getting ready for winter. Yeah. The lads there look ready to be logged. How do you feel? I feel good. The sun is starting to poke its head up. We've got islands in the mist which sounds like a Kate Bush song. Glory. I'm so peaceful. The cloud inversion. Stunner. He's a stunner. There he is. Yorkshire's finest. Cutting a fine figure. In front of this wonderful fiery sunrise. Joe was just saying that it felt spiritual. I agree. We are doing something that deals with death and life and all that. Mainly death not life. Walking in the dark and coming out into the light did feel sort of... What is it? There's like a deeper thing. There's like something to it, isn't there? Stepping out of the light. Stepping out of the dark into the light. We sort of hit that burial mound. Just getting light, didn't we? Yeah. Literally out of the dark. Saw the burial ground. The light's coming out. It's lovely. And also we're super tired. We've had hardly any sleep. We're hallucinating, really. We're hallucinations and tiredness. So if we set out mental, that's why... That's why, yeah. Cursed, that's it. So don't be... Get out of jail, freak. Because we've been in the dark and I can see you now. So welcome to the like-wake walk. The sun is rising. And we're feeling good, I think. We're feeling good. I'm feeling okay. As expected. There's going to be ups and downs, swings and roundabouts. We're going to be in the saddle for... It's a 16-hour shift today. But it is a challenge and that's why we're doing it. We're doing it for a good cause. If you want to see more about that I'll leave a link below. The cloudy tides are coming in. We're just looking at it and then behind us. Beautiful. Beautiful. Sunrise. And the flowers are out on the heather. Stunner. Absolute stunner. Beautiful morning. At this beautiful stone seat. Joe's cooking himself up here. He's having a spag ball for... Classic breakfast. Loved the route world for breakfast. Loved in truckers' cafes around the UK. Spag ball. He's lost it. He's having a spag ball. I don't know. I might have some. I shouldn't be talking to you a lot about it. Just trying to get some nice shots for you so there's stuff to look at. Get right in if you want. Get your nose in. And also, like we said before, tiredness. That's tiredness. We've gone delirious. Can we get help? The mist is starting to clear but it's just still wispy and beautiful. Look at that, man. This one, dude. Oh, it's a beast. That's like somewhat of a fairy tale, isn't it? It's beautiful. Look at it. It's still standing. It's still going strong, isn't it? The sun is cranking down now. It's warm, isn't it? Exciting to feel it in legs. What's run down? Yeah, I mean, knees, hips. Little bit stiff. We're not far from the Lion Inn pub, which is pretty much halfway, isn't it? So we're smashing it, really. Damage report. My legs feel all right. Underneath of my left foot is a bit warm. You know, it gets a bit warm, you think. Could be a hot spot. Yeah, they lose labs a lot. There's gun dogs. Madaak. We've made it to the pub and officially the halfway mark. We're hurting a bit out with Joseph. Yeah. And the thought of doing all that again is... It's a lot. It's a lot, but we're gonna... So we're gonna get in here and put some chafing cream on, get some patches on, get some ibuprofen, all that sort of good stuff. Fill the water, see if we can get some caffeine in us and maybe have one of our meals and then we'll bat on for part two. Sheep, but Yorkshire sheep. Oh, drying our feet out, resting feet. That feels great. We're having coffee just for the caffeine because I don't do ice coffee, so... We're stuck. We're just getting a wham. I'm gonna go full lather. Ibuprofen gel. Just cover your cell in it. There you go. There's a sheep, look. Road work. There's the pub. Right, some savage road work going on here. The pub. Right over there, we've come all the way around. I mean, what we've done is we've over... what have we done? Underestimated it. Underestimated it. We've hiked ourselves. It was up too much, being like... It was like... We read online, it said, you know, the average time to do this is 17 and a half hours or something like that. So I was like, well, we'll do it in 15 then. That's not the case as it's turning out. We were really hoping to finish in the light of day. It looks like we're gonna be finishing about half nine, which... It's not the light of day, so there's that. Look at the speed of it, look. The bike. So fast. So smooth. This way. This way. What's that look? Oh, it's kneeling down. Is it a meadow? No, it's not. It's a gold rabbit. There you go. What's that, then? Plunge pools, he says. Boggy plunge pools. He's boggy, isn't he, Simon? How much for on-camera features to run a sort of belly flop into that? Belly. No, I mean, I've still got to finish the hike. Yeah. You don't have to belly flop, but you just have to run a sort of getting it, jumping it. 200? Guys, if we all chip in, 200 of us pay a quid each. Shall we do it? It's worth it, go on then, yeah, do it. I'll give you 200. Yeah, bottler. We've got a bottler. Sensible head. After you've been walking on that gravel field or the road for so long, it's nice, even though this is hard walking, it's nice for a change, isn't it? He says, yeah. There's these stone markers that sort of tell us to go this way. Also, I was looking at the map and I was like, what, what there? What's going on here? I'll put a screenshot of where we are now. And it's it's pretty apt. It's a nice habitat, isn't it? Oh, man, look at it. Whoo. Across here, as far as the eye can see, there's hills. It's a lot more, isn't it? This is not happening in winter. And even if it's been raining a bit, you're like, well, we're definitely losing a shoe or two. People have just plunked in the old plastic ones, just in case. Hey, it was grouse. Yeah, it was grouse. Egg car wash. Yeah. What's happened? I don't know. Why? I don't know. Look how I'm doing artwork though. It's only for a year award. Isn't it? Are you getting that look? If you were tripping. What? If you tripped and fell in. Well, that's what it looked like in Lake District recently. It was just literally sphagnum. It was just moss. So I stood on it and I disappeared. We're lost, guys. We're lost. We're lost in these reeds. There's no path. We've lost the path. Is it boggy? Oh! This is a tough gig. Oh, Mark. We really shot off there, didn't we? Spiced it out on it. FG. We're back on track after a big old detour through some bog. Clay and heather. It's quite a nice combo. Look at all these beetles in here. I'm going to save them. Let's get them out of there. Got lads. Go on, run like. Fly my beauties. Fly. Medic! Oh, good lad. We're going up, look. To this, which is... This has got to be a man-made thing. We're seeing... Maybe another little funeral pyre thing. Well done. From there, look. Friday in office. That sun's getting hot. We were promised a body of water on the map, this side of us. And it was just like mud. It was probably the least imposing body of water we've seen on the whole walk. Yeah. It wasn't even a puddle, was it? It was just mud. There's a road there. Yeah, I think we go... Is that the Roman road? Basically, just up over there, don't we? We're heading this way and we maybe hug these trees and... Look, this is heaven. Make this forever. My uncle's tweaked an easter. It's real uneven. There's a lot of stone, so it's just tweaking it even more. Despite it being quite a nice little section, this. We've got the forest to the left of us. These random pines. It is a lovely section, but it's hard on the foot and we've got the sun at our back. Oh. An optimistic search for water ensues. We've done 30 miles 10 miles ago, so we decided to... It's not deep, but we can certainly just rest our weary feet in there. I can't do it, man. My ankle's too mulled. Oh, mate, that feels so good. Oh, you're stretching your toes out. I can't do that one because I've got blister plasters on it, sir. That's going to stay out. Ankle swollen, man. Cold. There it is. Power squat. Meditate. Happy 30 miles. You're a big one. As far as I can see, that way is where we've come from. And more. A lot more. As far as I can see, that way is where we're going. We've probably just got under 10 miles to go. We still can't see the sea. Damage report. Not as bad as it was after the chill. The dunk. Yeah, the dunk started to falter. I'm chafing. Chafing is on about an eight or a nine for pain. As well, it's because we haven't slept, man. You know, we had, like, two hours of kip last night, so... And we've just done 30 miles and we've got another 10 to go. So it starts playing havoc with your brain. And so that's why I've not been checking in and doing as much chatting as I should be. Because you need all your wits about you just to get to the end. Can you see the sea yet? No, we can't. Just more land. Well, this path looks all right, doesn't it? Yeah. Right, crack on. There's Gan. Back by torchlight. We've done a fault here. It's real weird that we've set off in the dark. It torches on. We've just done nothing but hiking. And now it's dark and we've got torches on again. I'm calling this the final section. We've just crossed the final road and I'm just... What I'm saying is I'm sorry for not filming out because it's just been a bit brutal. There's been ups and downs on this last bit that we were expecting, so... It's the second wind out at legs. What wind was left in them anyway. So I'm just checking to show you that this is us hiking in the dark after setting off in the dark. And you'll notice also that Joe's got the same bag as me, but it's the 58-litre and we've got big bags for this. I'll get into that another time and the reasons why we did it, because too tired brain doesn't work. We are broken men after over 40, my 40-point summit miles setting off I think they are free. I don't know what time it is now. I'll put it on screen. Oh, my God, we've done it. My feet are like... I don't even... It's past throbbing. It's like whatever goes next. Yeah, like pulsating. Yeah. Right, I'll catch up with you. We are... Right, damage report. It's going to be bad tomorrow, innit? Oh, every single part of my body now, it was just my legs until the last three miles and on my back. That last three miles I'm not afraid to admit it was brutal. It was hard work, but some highlights, what a journey. I'm too tired and he's not listening. Say goodbye. There we go. Here we are. We finished rather abruptly yesterday because we were both mentally and physically done, weren't we? Yeah. Incredibly safe. It's one of the hardest. I tell you, this is nice. It feels good. We spent the night in a youth hostel, got some kip, and then we've come out to find some cold water just to rest our eyes. Highlights. The beginning section, maybe the first sort of four miles. Even a bit in the dark, I actually quite enjoyed. Obviously, you're just setting off and you've got all your energy. Full of enthusiasm. And the weather and the morning was perfect. It was sort of magical, spiritual. We hit that first sort of burial mound. A thousand-year-old burial mound. It just felt amazing looking down on the... That was a bit where it was like, this is real, isn't it? This is actually a thing they used to do to bury their dead. The low-lying mist, the sun was popping up, sheep walking in front of us. It felt like this is a journey. We're off. This is the beginning of an actual journey. Coming out of the dark as it got light, it was like, right, here we go. And then it happened again, it just kept getting dark. And the last three to five miles. Yeah. I sort of felt pretty good about sort of six, seven, five. And I was like, you know, I feel so, I feel mentally great and I just feel like I'm just going to knock them out now. And then that last three miles, I think you've finished me. Particularly the last one. Which just seemed like the longest mile anyone's ever invented. It was dark. We had nothing to see. We were trying to find a tree line and it just wasn't coming in. It was agonising, man. Forty miles. Forty plus miles in a... I'll tell you what. Good effort, mate. Very good effort. It's going to have to be something special for that to happen again. Oh, I'm not doing that again. That was awful at times. But a journey, like Joe rightly said while we were doing it, type two fun. Yeah, very much so. Second half. Very much so. Was type two fun. First half, type one fun. There was a couple of sections where, you know, you could be forgiven for thinking. I'm a little bit over it now because it's slightly monotonous. Oh, yeah, and boggy as well. If it was raining, you'd struggle. But it's just a really nice walk. A lovely way to see North Yorkshire and now we can say we've walked it. Done it. The full width of the North Yorkshire moors from Osmotherly to Ravensgar. Yeah. And we have done it for a reason. We're doing it for charity. I'll leave a link below and there's a little blurb that I've written. As some of you may or may not know, I've had the big sea myself. And without cancer research and the NHS and stuff like that, I wouldn't be here now. One of our close friends from our school days is going through it at the moment. It's a big up Lucy. Much love. And so if you could afford a quid, 50p, something don't go mad. Just a quid would be wonderful just as a little token to make our 40 miles worth. Worth the effort. That would be great. And as I say, I'll leave the link below. But for now, are we going to dunk down or are we going to go under with the camera and that's how it'll end? I'm not going under. Why? It is funny, isn't it? Well, Joe's got funny ears, but... You can go under. I'll go under. We've got to do that. Come on. Your ears out worth it. That shot will be great. I'll try and leave that on top and we'll go under and that'll just float and then I'll fade to black. I'm not doing it. He's not doing it. Right, we'll say goodbye then. Bye for now. I'll do it. I'll do it. Good day. Bye for now. Didn't work. It was on bit too tight. I don't know. Take two. Take two. See you later. Thanks for watching.