when I was 21 years old I found myself
in the Gobi Desert and that’s when I
first came across these amazing nomadic
people so I came up with this idea that
I too could get up on a horse and ride
all the way from Mongolia to the edge of
the step in Hungary and to ride through
Kazakhstan southern Russia Crimea
Ukraine learning to look at the world
who are nomads odds the only problem was
I couldn’t ride a horse I set off and
within five days my world had come
crashing down the horses were stolen
life on the steppe without a horse is
like being on the ocean without a yacht
yeah you’re really in trouble kind of
miraculously found them and the guys who
had my horse they said well you must
have tied them really badly they came to
meet themselves but they taught me a
very valuable lesson and there’s this
Mongol saying that if you have ever have
to rush in life rush slowly why are you
rushing while you’re trying to leave
this place you’re just cursing yourself
and that was a turning point for me on
this trip just to let go of my plans to
accept that humans don’t get to dictate
it’s the environment that decides when
you can leave when you can go and times
more measured by the rise and fall the
Sun the seasons by the availability of
grass I planted the the journey to take
18 months and it was three and a half
years by the time I arrived on the
Danube by that stage I couldn’t live
without horses and there’s no turning
back after a journey like that
you
in the Gobi Desert and that’s when I
first came across these amazing nomadic
people so I came up with this idea that
I too could get up on a horse and ride
all the way from Mongolia to the edge of
the step in Hungary and to ride through
Kazakhstan southern Russia Crimea
Ukraine learning to look at the world
who are nomads odds the only problem was
I couldn’t ride a horse I set off and
within five days my world had come
crashing down the horses were stolen
life on the steppe without a horse is
like being on the ocean without a yacht
yeah you’re really in trouble kind of
miraculously found them and the guys who
had my horse they said well you must
have tied them really badly they came to
meet themselves but they taught me a
very valuable lesson and there’s this
Mongol saying that if you have ever have
to rush in life rush slowly why are you
rushing while you’re trying to leave
this place you’re just cursing yourself
and that was a turning point for me on
this trip just to let go of my plans to
accept that humans don’t get to dictate
it’s the environment that decides when
you can leave when you can go and times
more measured by the rise and fall the
Sun the seasons by the availability of
grass I planted the the journey to take
18 months and it was three and a half
years by the time I arrived on the
Danube by that stage I couldn’t live
without horses and there’s no turning
back after a journey like that
you
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