![]() “We hoped that if we were open, we would find people that wanted to get involved and help us on our journey, and we really did. Josh said: “The human interaction and the people that we met that helped us from one side of the world to another, the human kindness was just breath-taking. “Things like chess became a universal connector, we were playing against old Turkish men on a street corner, you realise the real value of how you can share experiences without trying to use Google Translate or things like that.” “We were writing, painting, playing chess and having conversations with people because our eyes were up rather than staring down at our phones. He added: “For the first three days it was weird, I was constantly checking my pockets like ‘Oh God, I’ve lost my phone’. Molly Hocking through to the final of The Voice UK 2019.Speaking to Cornwall Live, he said: "We saw an advert on a Facebook group, it had a very mysterious line about looking for adventure and seeing the world and we were hooked from that.” What Josh said about being on the show?ĭitching your phone for a day, let alone weeks, might seem like an impossible challenge to some, but Josh said that "stepping away from modern technology" was one of the main draws to taking part. The entreprenuer signed up to the show after seeing a cryptic advert on social media. What it's like inside Gordon Ramsay's posh London home he shares with wife Tanaįor the show, Josh has teamed up with his best friend and busines partner Felix Mortimer, hoping that as a team they can be crowned champions.Whilst he now lives in London, his parents still live in Madron and Penryn meaning he visits his home county regularly. Josh Nawras, 32, was born in Penzance and lived in Cornwall for much of his life. Jamiul, who is from Oldham, and Emon decided to donate half of their winners’ prize after the dramatic finale to the second series of the BBC2 show, with the University of Huddersfield graduate adding, “I feel like a bigger winner if we do this.Josh was born in Penzance but now lives in London I guess it shows you that there’s a bigger world out there and it puts into perspective how minuscule we are in the wider world.” “I don't think there’s a price that could be put on everything that we experienced. “It was a life-changing experience,” said 25-year-old Jamiul. They overtook Rob and Jen Lambra-Stokes in the final stages, ditching their backpacks before scrambling up the slopes of the hill that marked the end of 15,000-mile race with the finale watched by an audience of 3.3 million. BBC Two’s Race Across the World sees contestan ts take on the challenge of travelling thousands of miles, at ground level, across land and sea. On the way, Jamiul and his uncle took jobs on a yacht, in stables and as fishermen to help pay for their travel and even gave a taxi driver their iPods when they couldn’t pay a fare in Argentina.Īnd yet after travelling through 17 countries, including three under states of emergency, Jamiul and Emon won by just 20 seconds. Technology and bank cards were forbidden as Jamiul and Emon attempted to be the first to get from the Mexican capital to Ushuaia in Argentina, the world’s southernmost city ![]() But the pair were so moved by the plight of street children in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo that they have donated half of their £20,000 winning fee to South American charities helping children living rough.Ĭontestants were given a budget of £1,400 – roughly their air fare – for the 15,000-mile challenge, equating to around £26 per day. ![]() Jamiul Choudhury, who graduated in architecture in 2015, won the race alongside his uncle, Emon, after an epic 54-day journey from Mexico City to the south of Argentina. And a graduate of the University of Huddersfield emerged triumphant, by the slenderest of margins, before showing how the race had affected him with an act of huge generosity. Architecture graduate Jamiul Choudhury was partnered by his uncle, Emon, in BBC television’s Race Across The World …and they won!īBC TV’s Race Across The World recently gripped viewers as they followed the fortunes of five British pairs travelling around South America on a miniscule budget. Race Across The World sees five couples make their way to Asia without taking a single flight, making their way across sea and land on an epic adventure-filled trip in a bid to see who will be. ![]()
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