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Cycling Southern Colombia: Tulcán (Ecuador) to Pitalito (Colombia)

Cycling into the depths of a river gorge in southern Colombia, it felt like the final chapter of our long journey across the Americas had begun. Yet although only 10 days of cycling remained, we would still face challenges - not the least of which was a final crossing of the Andes on the infamous Trampoline of Death, a 50-mile (80 km) cliff-hanger of a route up in the clouds. After a brief brush with monkeys on the edge of the Amazon jungle, we climbed back into the mountains and returned to Pitalito, completing our four year, “flip-flop” adventure from Alaska to Patagonia.

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