Riding high(er)

Taking on 80km uphill in one go, Chris Fellows discovers a Colombia as addictive as it is unforgiving

Want to cycle 1,000 miles across rugged Scottish terrain, climbing more than twice the height of Everest? Oh, and it’s totally unsupported. Then try the Trans Alba race: you don’t have to be mad to do it, but it probably helps!

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The last word

Previous pages, top right: ‘The whole of Alto de El Morredero on Stage 17 was a barren, blackened landscape as far as the eye could see. Spain had had some of its worst ever wildfires there about a mo

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