 three degrees right now and my visor is totally fobbed up and I'm Oli and this is our hero bumblebee together we are attempting a Guinness world record to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle join us for season three here in South America so our situation at the moment is that our plate is really loose from the dirt road yesterday we're putting no tape over some bolts just to keep them not falling out again DIY and also we just found out that our equipment is not working again our audio equipment so for the morning vlog we were listening back to it and there was no sound we are just now trying to dry it out a little bit and hoping that it works after you know we're taking one dirt road and all our equipment is like on a blink to break it's either got dust in it or it's got water in it but either way at the moment it's not working as you can see here in our tent there was such a dust storm yesterday going on and it's like dust just everywhere in the tent we couldn't close our tent yesterday properly anymore was a little bit of a disaster as you can see now it's so nice and calm and dry and sunny so yeah we are ready to take on another day look how dirty bumblebee is now absolutely covered and we just had her cleaned in Santiago oh man and if you look over here you can see what we did yesterday to keep the mudguard attached we have two cable ties on this side and two cable ties on this side and luckily that was able to get us down the mountain yesterday I can't feel my fingers so yeah that's not so good and we have to get that fixed pretty soon good morning world welcome back to the channel it's day number 301 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle so we're here in the Atacama Desert in Chile and we've been having quite a few issues this morning looks like our vlogging microphone this little road one has completely stopped working it's just crackling but we tested the gopro with our helmet mics and it seems to be working testing testing one two three testing testing if we look at me yeah it's extremely difficult to get any spare parts at the moment because we are not like close to a big city and also to ordering something it's just impossible so we're just doing the vlog on the phone yes it's like our backup so our first stop today is our most urgent stop and that is to see if we can find some new bolts for our mudguard to reattach that to bumblebee then if all is good and the weather is good enough we will be making the pass over to argentina so let me show you guys the route so today if all goes well we'll be making our way back into san pedro de atacama before taking this road the 27 up and over Pasoama and into argentina we got to pick absolute everything and we have a long way to go so better hit the road let's go all right look how deep the kickstand is buried and we have this like big givvy plate on it as well to space it out whoa because you want to help push me up whoa god it's sandy here ah bumblebee i'm glad that your engine is working anyway okay all right goodbye dusty desert camp man san pedro de atacama 15 kilometers down this road and then we'll find some bolts the worrying thing about it is that those two bolts which are now gone that hold the mudguard to the wheel those bolts are actually undone and done up by the mechanic that changed our front tire and that was like literally less than two weeks ago in santiago so it does make you wonder 25 000 kilometers from england to santiago no issues and then 100 kilometers of dirt road and both bolts are gone gracias gracias so i'm just here at a little mechanic here in town he had like a big box full of bolts and i'm gonna try this little screw to see if that's gonna fit okay so we looked online and found out that the bolts we need are exactly the same as these bolts in the front so it's this bolt we've taken it out and um actually the screw that i picked up from the mechanic look at that it's literally identical which is crazy because i just picked it out of the box i was like oh maybe that one but that is actually going in which is crazy wow yes wow okay should i try to get another one yeah of those yeah awesome a second one he actually had prepared a whole bunch for me when i came back so that's really nice but look this is what we need this what he got so let's try it out okay no going back now we are gonna cut the cable ties and try these new bolts we were actually debating whether to just stick with the cable ties we were like oh they seem to be working let's just carry on but no no no if we can get it sorted now even better yes seems to be catching yes what a good feeling perfect i think for now that's going to be okay let's try the one on the other side so we got the second one in but we couldn't actually like turn the head so he got out his his cutter and cut a brand new head onto it cool which is crazy so let's try again then no i'm just like screwing it in and out it's sort of going in but not a hundred percent okay maybe get it out we had to put an extra couple of washers because we couldn't really get the screw in all the way but it's tight a good fix for now we thought it'd be a good opportunity after that dirt road as well to get the chain a good brush put some new oil on there because this chain is also a new chain that we got in Santiago so we really don't want it breaking just yet okay okay awesome we just asked here at the police department in town if the border looked okay at the moment if there was a big storm up there or what was going on and he said in the afternoon it's not looking good but right now it's okay so if you go right now head over there you should be fine yeah because it is already 11 30 and the storm is due to arrive at like uh three or four so we have a small window here a weather window where we yeah where it looks promising so now we have 96 miles to get to the border and oh my god yeah you can see like how quickly the road is going up the elevation is coming literally straight away oh my god okay yep up up up in a way let's do it so we're just stopping to put on some more layers because we're already getting up high you can see down there the valley where we came from and you could feel the temperature dropping so fast hey it's time to put on all our layers everything we have whoa look at this truck he has to keep his engine completely open to keep it cool enough to get up the hill good luck buddy alphys ready for the cold weather let's go well we're definitely getting up high now already because the cloud line and the snow line is pretty much just above us now and it's pretty crazy because today we're actually going to be climbing to the highest point we'll have ever been in our whole lives and by far the highest point of the trip so far to 4831 meters is above sea level and look we've reached the snow line very cool yeah 4831 meters is absolutely a crazy height to reach on this motorbike yeah you can feel the power as well from bumblebeer yeah yeah i've been full throttling her and yeah it's hard to gain too much speed even with a powerful motor like this whoa look at this crazy wow yeah we can only hope that we can get up and over this pass before the bad weather comes yeah well look at that incredible incredible yeah this is really the high andy's mountains now pretty cool wow look at this nice views ahead hey oh mountains mountains mountains the snowy andy mountains but yeah the breathing is a little bit hard i feel a little bit dizzy i don't know how high we are up at the moment but it is very high look look look look look oh there is some i don't know vikiness i think hello hello and he's standing on the stone oh like it's not high enough for me i've got to get a little bit higher that was so funny anyway it's really so funny but yeah we have made an elevation of more than 2000 meters in the space of like half an hour so our bodies are like whoa what's going on dude yeah where's all the oxygen gone i think we're still going up even further as well crazy stuff whoa oh there's a crazy high up here look at this giant giant ring of mountains snowy mountains around us nearly 4,800 meters up now out of breath completely you stop you walk around for like 10 steps at your out of breath so you can see it's actually snowing just over there on that hill less than 500 meters from us and you can see around us these snow markers so you can see how high and how deep the snow gets up with this altitude we're actually starting to get a tiny bit of snow on us right now crazy absolutely crazy now you know sometimes on a trip all the way around the world you get to roads like this and places that you just wouldn't see unless you're riding around the world it's days like today that make me like definitely definitely appreciate the journey we're on wow absolutely spectacular yeah it's always 50 50 because if you have any trouble with the bike you think like okay the trip might be over and you're really sad but then when everything is fixed up and you're back on the bike and then you have epic mountain views like this and you are then like oh man I really really enjoy everything even when we have sometimes a little bit of trouble or anything like this you know views like this and then experiences like this just make everything worthwhile absolutely we're still climbing this is absolutely crazy I don't exactly know where the highest point is but we must be getting really near to it look at all the snow this is it we've done it 4,831 meters above sea level the highest point of this road and literally one of the highest passes in the whole of South America wow that's crazy it's time to eat some snow yes look we're here with the snow bravo bravo bumblebee you did really well oh man this is really like the top of the world here 4,831 meters back down heading into Argentina then hey let's do it oh my god there is rain to the right of us and rain to the left of us so it definitely doesn't look like the weather's going to be getting better so it's definitely time for us to get to the border and get down the other side before this gets any worse here we go bienvenidos a la república argentina and i can see the town of hammer down below and that's where the border crossing is that's where we've got to do all the stuff yeah it's a very very very beautiful border crossing this one here wow and look the town is like right on the edge of the rain cloud oh no oh no this is the border post it looks like and we get to skip the truck queue oh the office ah oops went past the border post perfect this is our new tradition eating all of our fresh food at the border we're trying to get rid of the rest of our goat's cheese how much do we have left this much not very much goat's cheese left i think we're going to be able to finish it yes and then after we've had our lunch we'll go in do the passport patrol do the customs apparently both the argentinian and chilean is all in the one building so you can pretty much just go window one window two window three window four and then that's it we'll be in argentina we're officially in argentina and our first stop here is to get some cheap fuel from our good old friend ypf but i think every truck and everyone has the same idea do we have to wait with all of them surely not should i just skip to the front yeah because these guys are all diesel anyway so apparently they have no fuel here welcome to argentina this is the same reason that we left argentina to go to chilean the first place and then we come back here and the first petrol station we go to is like oh no fuel they're currently filling up the fuel as we speak so they reckon in one more hour we'll be able to fill up but the next petrol station isn't for another 170 miles so we just don't have that much in the tank so we basically have to wait an hour success we finally got our fuel and now we're ready to hit the road into argentina but with all the delays and the border and everything it's already quarter past four so i reckon we can probably ride for another two two and a half hours nice argentinian family that we met at the border let's see how far we can get you let's pray for no rain no rain no rain no rain no rain oh my god guys we just came around the corner and there is a huge herd of llamas wow oh look they decorate them with some stuff no oh my god they're so cute what oh this is like the most pretty thing i've ever seen really wow yeah because they've all got these coloured things on their ears yes wow they are unbelievably cute oh they look like that they're going to a celebration oh they do wow okay it looks like we are finally getting hit with some rain so we're going to learn our lesson from yesterday we're going to unplug our microphones to try and save our gopro and boy did the rain come we were feeling pretty good with our preparation we had passed the hammer border and expected to descend down into warmer and brighter weather at any moment but little did we know that we would still be at over three and a half thousand meters elevation for the next 150 miles as the evening began to approach the temperature was dropping fast but still mile after mile we had no choice we had to keep riding so it's now nearly seven o'clock and it's absolutely freezing i'm still wet still raining i think the temperature at the moment is about six degrees so we're stopping now to do some jumping jacks and just try to warm up a little bit because we have to do another climb before we head down we wanted to camp somewhere around here but we're still like three thousand eight hundred meters up and it's absolutely freezing with the rain so we have to push through we have to push through i think we're gonna have to ride maybe for one more hour before we actually start getting down in elevation at this point we knew that camping wouldn't be an option so we made the plan to ride to the first town we would encounter in argentina a small mountain town called porma marca only 30 miles away but in between us stood one more 4200 meter pass to conquer and this one would test us to our limits finally after more than 10 hours riding since we left san pedro de atacama signs of civilization started to emerge and we knew that our day's adventure was at last coming to an end so we just arrived here in porma marca and we're just seeing if there's any rooms that we can have and what the prices are going to be yes they do have a room for us and it's 2,500 per person which is about 10 pounds per person it's getting pretty dark already it's nearly eight o'clock so at this point we don't have much of a choice but to take the room and have a cozy bed for yes oh i'm super excited because i'm freezing cold we made it hope you're alive oh my god i really thought we're gonna die today it was so freezing cold up there like three degrees your fingers were nearly like i couldn't feel my fingers i couldn't feel them it was like ridiculous it just carried on and on and on and just didn't descend we were just waiting for it to go down like and then we kept checking on maps me and it was still like no we're still at three and a half thousand meters and then we climbed up to nearly four thousand meters again at the end and then we couldn't see anything it was like we were riding in the cloud it was cold it was no end in view like it was just insane so i'm really really happy that we made it yeah so this room is absolutely perfect for us right now because this is what we need a nice cozy warm room after a lot of rain i really thought that after the border i thought that was it you kind of go down after that and that would be done and it was like but no it didn't it just carried on and on and on for i think it was like more than 250 miles today more than 3000 meters elevation going through through through it just never stopped it was just insane we're down at about two and a half thousand meters now so the temperature has come up a bit and it is a lot warmer and we will have a good night tonight and that's it from us today we hope you enjoyed the video if so please give us a thumbs up subscribe to the channel share the video with your friends and family comment below and if you really really really like the video then you can support us on patreon you find the link in the description below and we will see you next time