What is going on right now? This is like a horror film. More than a thousand people die every year from landslides in India. Roads disappear, cars sink, and mountains swallow entire homes. But people still need to commute to work. So I'm meeting up with India's only female truck driver to experience a day on the job. We are about to drive 300 miles across the most dangerous roads in the country, and we only have 48 hours to transport a truckload of cement to the other side of the Himalayas.

Will we deliver the cement on time if a landslide wipes out our route? The clock starts now! Nice to meet you. How are you? Thank you. She's saying she loves adventure, she loves risk, and she's excited to go to Leh for the first time, and she's happy that you guys are here. What do you think about her, being one of the only women truck drivers? driving in India is not so easy, and they feel so proud and happy about it.

She feels very happy when she drives. She feels all of them are like brothers. Neel is doing all the final checks to make sure that everything is looking good. There have been some maintenance issues on the truck, but they have it all fixed, and we are ready for the adventure. This is the load that we are taking. Three hundred and twenty bags of. cement, and it takes a whole team to load the truck. These bags are extremely heavy. Jesus.

I can't even lift one bag. Yeah, that was a bad idea. I can barely lift it. Jesus. Fudge. All right. Ready to go. We are officially starting the adventure. The documents have been handed over. Let's go! Thank you. Okay, okay. Our journey is expected to take two full days, starting in Chandigarh and climbing 480 km up to a small town in the Himalayas, called Leh. Along the way, we'll watch India transform in front of our eyes.

It's one of the most dramatic road trips in the world, and I can't wait to experience it. We're trying to figure out the seating arrangements in the truck because it's like a bed, but there's nowhere to put your legs. So, can I sit here? It's okay here? No! She said I can't put my feet here because this is the engine. And it's, it's like spiritual, like, it's disrespectful. There's a line here, that I can't put my feet on this side because she needs the. the stick shift. Are you comfortable? Yes.

Are you sure? Yes. Very comfortable. So we have just started the adventure. It's 2:45 right now, so we obviously can't really drive at night. So we're just gonna drive as much as we can, make as much progress as we can, sleep somewhere. And then tomorrow is where we're really gonna start climbing in elevation, and hopefully make it to Leh the following day. She was saying that she has a fan, which is the AC, which is actually really nice because it's blowing cool mountain air.

Are you sure you're not scared with all the landslides? Yes. What are we gonna do if we see a landslide? We have to wait for road to be open and be strong. I've never in my life filmed a. adventure like this, so this is gonna be insane. This is actually insane. It's rainy season and we're driving on the most dangerous roads in India, and somehow Garima's not even scared. Let's go!

We are driving extremely slow, like record slow, and I don't know how we're gonna get there. in two and a half days. Every car is just zooming past us so I don't know, maybe it's because we have like, 500 tons of cement in the trunk. That's probably the reason, but I don't know. I guess it's safer to go slower. Stopping for a bit of chai.

Wow, look at the river. It's beautiful and scary because. if the rain goes more high and the river goes more up, all these houses will. go away. The height of the river is super high. Like, those houses are almost underwater from the rainstorm. How many cups of chai do you need to drink in like, a full day of driving to stay awake? Ten. More than 10. What's the plan today? Like, where are we sleeping? The road is blocked, so she's not so sure, but she'll try her best to reach till Manali. And how many hours would that take to drive 100 km?

Five hours at least. So it's gonna be dark in three hours. So, are we gonna drive at night? She drives at night also, but nowadays because of monsoon, the road is not good. So maybe no. Okay. Judging by that logic, there's zero percent chance we reach Manali. So, we'll just make the most progress we can and we'll sleep wherever we can. We have made it to a lovely Hindu temple in the middle of the beautiful green rolling hills. How come you wanted to stop here?

They pray for the safe journey. When you're driving, how often do you stop and pray at the temple? So if they don't stop on going, they will stop on coming back. This is insane. We already reached like, landslide roads, and you can see just these boulders here and the monkeys on top of them, and it looks like it just freshly happened.

I hope we are. alive. That's it. I think it only happens when there's active rainfall. So, if it starts pouring rain, we need a game plan. If we get stuck in rain, we need to, like, park somewhere that doesn't look like we're gonna die, 'cause like, if a landslide comes and the truck gets hit over, we will die. We need to like, think about it before it happens. Otherwise, we're just gonna sit here, and then we're gonna die. I'm not, not kidding. Did you saw that video where. cars were flipping over yesterday? I, I didn't, didn't watch it. Was it on this road?

Somewhere around here. It's crazy that these stones have just recently fallen. It's so dangerous. Like, if you're driving, or even walking at any point, like, a boulder could just come and kill you. This thing's freaking heavy, man. It's freaking crazy that it just falls. Man. The concrete is literally split in half. All right, well, we got to continue getting to Manali before dark, so let's go. The plan is to reach Manali today. It's looking really unlikely. I don't know what we're gonna do about sleeping. I haven't seen a single guest house, and I don't think we can all fit in here.

Take it moment by moment and see if we can get there. Holy crap! She's a very good driver, though, like, I'm watching her closely, and she's not distracted at all. She's not using her phone. She's very, very focused on the road, which I appreciate. Neel, you're a great driver. Good driver. Thank you. Cute. Look at the river. Look how fast it's going. If we fall into that river, we are dead. The water level's so high and the rapids are so fast.

This truck, we will literally drown. in seconds. Feeling tired. She's feeling tired, then she shouldn't drive. After some time. Are you sure you're okay? Please don't fall asleep behind the wheel. I have no doubt that Neel is an incredibly talented driver, but under these punishing conditions, with such extreme hours, anybody would be at risk of nodding off.

I still have PTSD from the deadly bus crash I survived in India, 11 years ago. And it doesn't help that we just entered a tunnel and traffic is at a standstill. We have been stuck in this tunnel for literally 45 minutes. At least we're protected from a landslide, because we're in a tunnel, but we've been told that there is a landslide up there. There's literally just a line of cars all the way down and people standing outside. What do you think landslide? We are not sure. Nobody sure.

They're in the truck behind there in the line, and I'm just here hanging with the homies. Oh, my God. Everyone's honking. This is totally a clusterfuck. Holy crap. Watch out! This is insane, dude. Well, the only progress we can make right now is by foot. Just to see what's going on up here. We left. Neel way behind there in the truck, kilometers behind us at this point. And this line has not moved in what, 45 minutes? So there's two options.

In my mind, it's either a landslide, or a truck like collapse or some, there's an accident and the road is blocked. I can't think of any other options. What do you think? Probably landslide. Worst condition, there can be a truck or car accident. Neel informed us that during this road, landslide happens, they clean it up, and then, in two hours, another landslide. Five hours, another. Six hours, another. So it's continuous. Dang. Hey, bro. How are you? Fine. What happened? What's the problem?

Uh, diesel tanker blast. Landslide? Yeah, yeah, landslide. We finally made it to the end of the tunnel. It's pouring rain and there's a lot of commotion here. Everyone's just kind of hanging outside. What happened? Landslide? Tanker blast. Huh? Tanker, tanker. Oil tanker. Oil tank blast? What happened? Landsliding. Landslide. Landslide has happened and a truck like this with oil has blasted. Like fallen over?

It's like, yeah, the oil is leaking. I think. I smell it. Hey, excuse me. How many hours are we gonna be stuck here? Maybe one or two hour. -- It will be open. It's cute. In India, the men like to hold hands. What's wrong? I want to go. We're literally stuck here. There's nowhere to go. We're just standing at the edge of the tunnel 'cause it's pouring rain. What happened? How long were you gonna wait for?

Uh, just they are cleaning it. They're cleaning it. So what happens if we drive? Another landslide happens and we all die? It may happen. Uh. We can't fight with nature. We can't with it. We can fight with ourselves, but we can't fight with nature. I agree. So. That's why we, we, we have no time for that. Are you driving through the night? Uh, no, I, I want to stay at Kullu.

Yeah, we're gonna sleep in Manali and then tomorrow drive to Leh. Okay. If you don't have any kind of stay, I will make you to stay somewhere in Kullu. Oh, no, you don't have to arrange. We, we can handle it, but that's so nice of you. Thank you. Yeah. Really? Not today? So where we sleep? Is it open tomorrow? Tomorrow. Tomorrow? What time? It's not gonna open today. Yeah. I. tell him, tell him. Really? One hundred percent today not open?

No. What time tomorrow do you think? What. Morning? Rain stop. Thank you. Holy shit! We're gonna have to go backwards and sleep somewhere because it's done. Sayonara. Holy crap! Neel. Landslide. Okay. Where you sleep here? Sleep. What happens now? What do we do? We're stuck in a landslide. She's saying. it's possible by today night, but for sure by tomorrow. Do you want to go back and sleep at that temple? Because we all can't fit in the truck.

It's not gonna be comfortable. Oh, you saw the road that was breaking near the temple. If it broke down by night today, then that road will also be blocked and we won't be able to get out. So we're stuck in between two landslides right now. Yes. So where can we sleep? Sleep where? There's. all of us. We have Matej, we have Garima and we have you. We can adjust in the truck. We can sleep in the truck, because it's an emergency situation. Yeah. Did you bring food? Do you have food? Food. She has? What is that?

Oh. Snacks. Okay. The masala balls? Good thing we bought a case of water. Lesson learned. Buy water if you're going on a road trip because this shit happens. Okay, so what do you want to do? You can see on my face. I'm so pissed off and exhausted. I don't know what to do. What do you want to do? Sleep outside on the. fresh air. We knew this was gonna be an adventure and it turned out to be a full on adventure. I like her spirit though.

She's funny and she like says, she said this is the truck life. This is what happens. There were cars. full of tankers with oil. So police told them to go out because it's very dangerous. What if it blasts? What if it's leak? So meaning we should get the hell out of the tunnel? 'Cause if there's a blast in the tunnel, we would suffocate. They are gone. Yeah. So we should go out there and sleep. But there is a landslide. The road is breaking in half. I feel like we're just talking in circles because I have no idea what we're gonna do. Where are we gonna sleep?

What are we gonna eat? She doesn't seem worried. You seem worried, and I'm worried. Guys, we are stuck without food. There is no food. How many times in your life has a situation like this happened to you? Many times. You look like you're about to fall asleep. She's kind of giving me the face like, I'm good here, you guys are kind of screwed because there's not enough space to sleep all of us. So we've decided that the only solution now is to sleep in the truck. So we're going in.

You sleep here? Okay and me, where I'm me sleeping? She doesn't know. So, Neel's making her bed right now. I'm just gonna wait here, or maybe lay in the chair. And, this is how she's. this is how she does it. She got her kiss emoji pillow. Good night. Bye. I've now been in this tunnel for. 13 hours. The good news is we didn't die in the landslide. There's a cool breeze coming in. Reeks of oil from the oil spill, but we're managing. We managed to walk out of the tunnel even though they told us not to. On the other side, and we're gonna get some food to cook, to eat. Freaking starving.

Hello. Hello! How are you? Very fine. Can we get some bananas? Yeah. All of that. Yeah. Can you eat this without making hot water? Maybe I ask in next shop. Yeah. Thank you. If we can make hot water, that's. So Neel's in the truck sleeping, and we managed to come outside the tunnel and find a little shop open, and thank God they have noodles and boiling water. Oh, my God. While eating, the reality hits us. We aren't going anywhere tonight. Our only option is to sleep in the truck.

Ten thirty-seven AM, we're on the other side of the tunnel. The tunnel is. just right there. And we. don't have an update. Um, we don't know if the tunnel is gonna open today. It has stopped raining, so hopefully they're able to fix the road. But it's also scary 'cause even if they fix the road, I don't know that I want to go on it 'cause I don't want to be stuck in another landslide. We have to get to Leh because we have to fly out of Leh, and I'm unable to extend my trip.

I have a lot of commitments going on, so I don't know if we just. hopefully wait. We have the today. If, if we get through the road today, we're good. If we don't, we're gonna have to turn back, and it sucks trying to figure this out. Meanwhile, this is not a terrible place to pee. Check this out. I have no idea what we're gonna do, but if I know one thing, nature is stunning out here! Dang. We were just told by people in this town that there's a landslide going the other way. So we are stuck in between two landslides right now.

We cannot go anywhere. We can't make progress forward. We can't make progress backwards. So we basically are just gonna sit here and wait until we find a safe option to get out. Hopefully, it's onwards to Leh. I really want to go to Leh. I wanna finish the story. see the town of Leh. I heard it's amazing. How was your sleep? Is there a plan B? Like if we can't, if the road just doesn't open, is there a way you can deliver the goods to somebody else in a different town behind us?

No, no, no. They have to go to Leh to give the cement because that's the order. Got it. Otherwise, they will get penalty. All right. We just walked to the. end of the tunnel to see the landslide and to see if we can get any information. So that's we're, that's we're doing. We're gonna talk to some people, and see when it's gonna open up. You can see just 100 meters in front of us, there's a bunch of rocks in the road.

What's happening right now is they're. taking this rock and they're pushing into the river right now! Holy shit! Look at this! Ohhhhh! That was insane! Is it gonna be finished today? Finished? So, not today? Tomorrow? But they will try by evening, but they're not sure because half the road, is gone in the water. So how. are we just, should we just cancel the plan? It sounds like we're not gonna get there. Do you think the road will open tomorrow? That's the only question. Do you think?

By evening we will know. This is the oil truck that got hit by the landslide and all the oil spilled. You can see the oil has risen to the top. It's crazy that it's just landslide after landslide. Walking back, the tunnel's about 3km that way. You just get this really uneasy feeling even just walking here that like, at any given time, rocks could fall. Hopefully, it looks like they're clearing the road. But even if the road is clear, I still don't feel very comfortable, with all these big trucks that weigh tons just driving on this road.

I don't know. Scary. I've been making videos for like eight years now, but I've never had. any situation where I've had to face a landslide. Right in front of us are the workers. We're gonna see. see if we can get any updates. We've crossed four landslides from where our truck is to walk to here. And so it seems to be from this point forward, it's clear, we're gonna find out. So it's gonna be finished today? We got finish. Really? One hundred percent. Hundred percent! Okay. In one rainy season, how many landslides do you have here?

Countless. Too much? Countless. Yeah. How many people died in this landslide? Anybody? People died? How many? No idea. Oh my God. This landslide is the last one? This one? No last. No last? Three more. Three more? Oh, yeah. But today clear? Oh, yeah. Okay, thank you. Let's have a look here. But, it sounds like, they said three or four hours it's gonna be open. All we can do is trust, take their word.

The other option is to just walk by foot past all the landslides, and then have another car pick us up on the other side. But we want to finish the story. We want to watch Neel deliver the goods, so. Holy shoot! Look at this one. Are you kidding me right now? This is way worse than the other ones. Holy crap! It's still coming down. There's no way they're gonna get the roads clear.

Well, I think we're screwed. This landslide is way more severe than the other four that we've seen. I don't know how they're gonna, like, thousands and thousands of pounds of mud. I don't know how they're gonna remove that. And also nobody's working on it right now, so. Aah! India strikes again. Today finish? No, today. Tomorrow? Tomorrow. Finish tomorrow, yeah. What time tomorrow? Today. Today evening. Today evening? Yeah, yeah.

Finish? Finish. I don't know if I'm communicating right. Oh, it's freak, dude, it's right here. These are my only shoes, dude. Oh my God! My once white shoes are now brown. Oh, fudge. Yo! I'm scared. I'm scared to cross. Now? Yeah, that could happen on the, on the side and you can just fall down. Okay, I'm gonna go really fast. All right. This is like, dead serious. There's rocks like coming down right now. Fudge. Let's go!

God, this is so scary. Are you scared? Yeah! I'm scared. This is freaking terrifying! Matej, are you scared? Look, look at my feet. I'm dirty. But you're not scared? I'm scared. Wow. This finished today. They have went for lunch. When they come back, they start throwing stones in the river, and it will be clean. And this, this is the last landslide, after this one, the road is clear? To Manali? There is more. ahead, but that is work in progress.

These are my only shoes on the trip. How's that feel? Good shower. This is going on dirty Slovak Instagram account, whatever heck it's called. Thank you, thank you. Thank you very much. How was the shower? Good. Right there. A little shower time doesn't hurt anyone. Garima is showing me the news right now. This is crazy. Look at these landslides. With the Kulu, Manali in people are not able to move from this place.

This is literally happening right where we are right now. Yes, we are right here and stuck since. yesterday. Says Himachal Pradesh flood fury, 190 people dead from yesterday. Just in yesterday. And remember what the police say? We don't know how they. Yeah, we asked him, he's like, yes, people die. We don't know. I managed to walk across this. sketchy suspension bridge to get some food, and everyone's just hanging out and nobody has any idea when we're gonna leave. And the locals are saying this is normal. This takes two, sometimes three days until the roads are fixed.

What's crazy is you can see. the rocks on top of this mountain and they said anytime the rocks are just falling. Ask him when there are landslides, how often do people normally wait to cross? One or two days? Everyone's here wondering the same thing. When's the road gonna open? So. Mandi now? Yeah, yeah. Now? Mandi and Kamand, and Bajaura. It's okay? Yes. No landslide? No now. Can we go now? To Mandi now, or is roadblock? Yeah, yeah. Ah, yay, yay, yay, yay. So the situation is all the lights went off in this tunnel weirdly.

We're told that it could take three or four more days to clear the road, so we, we want to continue onwards to Leh. That's our destination. We have a flight out of there too that we can't miss. So, we are gonna try to go backwards in a car, and then we'll continue onwards to Leh, and hopefully there's no more landslides on the way. After 48 hours stuck inside the tunnel, my sanity is on the line. All I can do now is hope the landslide behind us has finally been cleared, so we can hitch a ride backtrack and still make it to Leh, even if it means trekking part of the way. But that also means saying goodbye to Neel,

who's the entire reason I came to India in the first place. My heart is breaking even though for her this is just part of the job. Before we head out, I want to ask her some burning questions about her life and career. Neel, what was your inspiration to become a truck driver, in India? So the situation was like this, that the husband died and there were drivers to drive this truck and they were not behaving good. They were making problems and the son was very small so she had to take on the job. What are some of the biggest challenges that you face as a female truck driver in a men dominant society?

There are many problems just like every driver face. But, as a woman, mostly it's usually. there are no. good washrooms on the way and at night it can be unsafe because in India, but she said she's in Himachal. This area, it's much more. strong for women. Yeah. Safe. What do other people think about when, when you meet them in real life and you tell them you're a truck driver? What is their reaction?

They approve and they say, we are proud of you that you are setting an example for the woman in this field and you should keep doing this and be a truck driver in this male dominated society. How many more years do you want to continue being a truck driver? Is this like next 10 years, 20 years? Where do you see your future? She has strength in her arms until then. Awesome. She's the first female truck driver in Himachal Pradesh. Do you hope to be an inspiration for other women in India to be truck drivers or just be entrepreneurs and follow their dreams?

Yes. Yeah, she would like to see women in this field. The job is very difficult, but she is okay. Like, if more women comes in. She's very happy to meet you guys. She wanted you to join till Leh, but unfortunately you cannot, but she's very happy to meet you. Okay. Be careful. Oh my God. Neel's story is inspiring, but I can't let my emotions get the best of me. We need to get going, and we meet someone who's willing to drive us on a secret road that wraps around the problem zone.

The road now is because of the rain, it's gotten even worse. And it almost feels like a horror movie now compared to how it was yesterday. Oh my God. We're avoiding landslides again. Holy shit. Okay. So there's a new situation now, there's another landslide. So this truck is coming to hit the boulder out and hopefully we can get into Mandi. And then, from Mandi we got to take the old highway, the little one-lane highway to Manali, which we were told minimum four hours maximum eight hours. Once we hit Manali, then Manali to Leh should be clear, another six or eight hours. So now the journey is to get to Leh, no more trucks.

But now it's like, we're stuck again. If you're watching this and you're thinking about coming to Himachal Pradesh in rainy season, you might want to think again because the landslides are a serious concern here. You can see the water levels from the river just approaching the bottom of these buildings. We are now switching drivers to another taxi to take us to. Manali. So we're gonna be driving through the night to get there on the old mountain roads. Drive safe, yeah? Drive safe. Okay.

Right now we are at about a thousand meters elevation and we're driving 110 kilometers to reach Manali, and there is 2100 meters. So basically this entire drive is gonna be straight uphill, and you can see the incredible views. Even at night here, we're seeing landslides and tractors and police. Holy crap. And we're driving in the clouds right now. This is all clouds. Look. Well, we're stuck and dealing with more landslide issues. This is what a little shop looks like here.

A lot of candies. A lot of chips hanging from the ceiling. Four chocolate. How much? Twenty rupees. Chocolate. Oh. Good for this all, it's like, like the views. Dude, give this for the driver. Chocolate. Thank you. You like chocolate? Hmm. All right, update. It is now. 9:39. We've been stuck for about 45 minutes in this long line of cars, and we have no idea what's happening and how much longer we're gonna be stuck. And Garima is really, really excited right now. She's pumped to be here. I'm so pissed off, frustrated, and fed up of this shit.

We are stuck since more than 24 hours now and it's getting shitty each and every hour. We don't have phone signal anymore, so we're forced to talk. Yeah, we are just talking and talking to pass the time. So guys, I used to think that Drew hates India. just like that, but when I travel with him, I can see the reasons, and the hate is not like fake. It's for the facts. Wow. I did not even tell her to say that. That's, that's true. I actually love India. It's just you're often in stressful situations like this, but it's part of the fun.

I like the people, I like the food, the culture. I say every single state of India is like a country. Even on this trip, we're traveling from greenery, Hindu, majority to. like high elevation desert Buddhism land. And that's just from one state to the next. It's 10:46 now. It's been like two hours since we've been stuck on these roads, and we've moved a total of maybe 100 meters. What is this guy saying to you? There is a landslide again. Why don't you ask these cars that are driving like, what's the situation? They know.

Is there a landslide there? Hello. Landslide? Huh? Landslide? This guy says it's landside. He's really drunk. I can smell his breath this way. He say only traffic. Okay. Three, four kilometer. Three, four kilometers? We've moved like maybe a half kilometer in the last hour. Not even that. One and half hour. Only we have moved 200 meters. At this rate, it's gonna be like 8 AM till we get there. That he. started this route at 2:00 PM?

No way, dude. That's 10, 10 hours. No freaking way. This is actually getting ridiculous, this line of cars. How are you? Bro, I'm not good. How are you? We got too much traffic this time. Too much freaking traffic, bro! Yeah, bro. So how are they getting by? That's impossible if there's a landslide, that means both sides are blocked. Maybe if you can ask. of how. Landslide or yes? He's say no. Yeah. What? Yes. No. He said no. Okay, just go. Don't worry.

I'm not shooting you. Go, go, go. They're the first people that made a problem from shooting. Freaking mountain people. It's not even traffic, really. I mean, everyone just turned off their lights 'cause there's nothing. You just can't go anywhere. There's nothing. Like, nothing. This reminds me of six months ago when I tried to go to Kumbh Mela, the world's largest gathering, and I was stuck in the car with a driver who barely spoke English for 22 hours. Always got to count on India for the craziness! Okay, we all put our brains together 'cause we're not moving, so we are just gonna freaking walk.

I just paid the driver. I don't know how far we're gonna walk. We just ate bananas. Are you good, bro? Yeah. Okay. They're good combo. It's literally 11 PM right now, we're in the middle of the Himalayas and we're walking. All right. Bye, driver. There we go! Thank you. All right, and. we are off. The goal is to get to where. wherever the issue is in the road. And then from there we take a taxi or we just. there's no taxis. From there, we jump in a car and pay someone.

Look how fast we're moving, guys. We're passing cars every second. It's 11:20. Let's see how long it takes. I'm gonna predict that we pass the issue. The landslide or whatever is the problem at 12:30. Hey, guys. How are you? Hi. Fine. Cooking a little dinner? How long are you waiting for? How many hours? Seven PM. Seven PM?

Yeah. Six hours? It smells amazing. Okay. All right. Bye-bye. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. It's actually insane how many cars we are passing, thousands of cars, which means 5 to 10,000 people, are stuck in this traffic jam. So this is why there's not many cars going, 'cause they can't get up this freaking mud. Look at this. Oh, oh, dude, they're pushing. Okay, so they're pushing the cars down by hand. This is freaking insane.

So this is like landslide. Sight, sight, sight, sight. Yeah, sight. Let's do that. Oh, come on, let's slow down. This is. freaking insane, bro. Multiple levels of danger right now. My God. Like, there wasn't that many cars coming earlier. Now it's like we're dodging the freaking cars. This is uh. what is going on right now? This is like a horror film. This is crazy. We found this one car. We kept managed to pass all the traffic, and now we're hitchhiking with these guys. down the mountain. Let's go!

Are they policemen? Government or, or police? Government. Yeah. Thank you, guys. Oh my God, that was the craziest. traffic jam I've ever seen. They are going. until Bhuntar, the next big village or town. They will stop us there, and from there we'll get a taxi to Manali. Beautiful. Great. Deciding to walk was. an incredibly great decision. Yes. Even he walked. He came like us from same road, and then his friend picked him up.

It's, guys, 1 o'clock. One o'clock. We started walking at 11:20. So we walked it's 1:10 right now. So we walked almost two hours. Yes. How would you explain this journey in one word? Horrible. Horrible but I, I can feel the pain of the locals here that they face this every year. The issue is there's one road to get to where we need to go, and rainy season lasts about three months here, which is nuts! That means the landslides exist for three months, and people have to deal with this.

Yeah, do something. You know, if. I'm sorry to say, if China can do that in Himalayas, why not India? -- Like. Afghanistan can do it. Yeah, even Afghanistan. This is the question to be asked. Why not our country? Why are we making roads that break down? You guys definitely have enough money in your economy to make better roads. This is one of the top five biggest economies in the world. Yeah, but the money. Sure real. goes in corruption, so. We fall asleep in the car, drifting in and out as the hours slip by. And by the next morning, I'm finally starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel.

I just woke up to a complete change in terrain. Big brown mountains, and it feels more deserty. We're gonna stop here and have lunch, and chill for a bit. Are you having noodles, or. noodles? We're in this little cute shop, and this lady who runs it is super friendly. Cooking people food, her mom's in the back helping her out, selling clothes. Then there's these two really, really cute kids just eating noodles in the corner. It's pretty awesome.

It's just been an absolute pleasure to travel India and see the diversity of this country. Everywhere you go, it changes. In this video, we went from Hinduism to Buddhism. We changed languages, we changed landscapes from greenery to mountains, and it just shows why India is just absolutely incredible traveling here. We arrive in Leh against all odds, and I am exhausted. As beautiful as India is, I can't wait to get home. A full week later, back in Arizona, I finally hear back from Neel.

It took her seven more days to reach Leh, and she sends me this update to everyone who's following her journey. I've traveled to every country in the world, but stories like this, never get old. One person, one mission, and a whole lot of obstacles standing in the way. If Neel doesn't inspire you, then I don't know what will. Let her story be a reminder to zoom out, because most of what we call problems are really just privileges in disguise.