Here’s the official intro from Rayne Longboards, our mountainboarding cousins, about episode 4 of the LongTreks expedition:

“The easy part is over! We now face the hardest climb yet, from sea level to summit of a 14,000ft mountain. Inch by inch, we skate into the mouth of the Andes and become
drenched as we ascend into the rain-clouds. At high-altitude we battle tougher terrain with half the amount of oxygen. Sleeping for 15 hours in their tents, so as to outlive the
rain and rest from the oxygen-deficient altitudes, proves to be costly and depletes our water and food supply, but we must push onward, striving to make it to the next town.”

Here’s your official introductory message from Rayne Longboards:

“In this episode our three a’gringos come to a fork in the road at the base of a large Peruvian mountain. One way says fifteen miles to the next destination–the other says five. Upon asking the locals which way to go, our gringos are encouraged to eat hot peppers and have a traditional meal with the locals… later resulting in gasket-blowing Diarrhea. Not listening to the directions that the locals give them, they take the shorter route, also known as the Peruvian Death Hill # 1. The going is rough, the pavement awful–their life expectancy is grim. Enjoy.”