The inside story of Mark Beaumont's extraordinary solo attempt to smash the Guinness World Record for cycling around the world
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The inside story of Mark Beaumont's extraordinary solo attempt to smash the Guinness World Record for cycling around the world
Broadcast Tue, 2 Dec 2008, 03:10 on BBC One but not available on BBC iPlayer.
Arriving in the USA, Mark celebrates his 25th birthday in LA in sub-zero temperatures.
World record breaker Mark Beaumont is cycling from Anchorage, Alaska to Ushuaia in Southern Argentina. He'll also climb the two highest peaks on the continent, McKinley and Aconcagua. Along the journey he'll tell the story online and be recording the adventure for a BBC One documentary series, The Man Who Cycled The Americas.