gilgit #2

in gilgit, i was looking for accomodation, when some very energetic guy on the street made me a good offer and took me to his hotel. i ordered some food up to my room, when the server asked me if his filmmaker friends could interview me for a couple of minutes after my dinner. i was really tired, but of course i agreed.

i assumed his friends to be some high school students, but actually two grown ass men with a gopro in hand introduced themselves to me and drove me to another hotel with a nicer lobby as a backdrop to film an interview. i was too polite to say no at this point, so in the end, i sat there for hours, recollecting everything about my trip and answering all of their questions. then, they staged some scenes of me entering the hotel (by the way, looking like an absolute hobo after all that time spent outside), me being interviewed, yada yada yada.

they then also wanted hundreds of pictures and videos from my trip for them to use in their documentary. i was super tired, all my stuff is on a cloud and it would've taken hours to send them everything, so i just told them i'd do it later. i never did, it just didn't feel right. i still have mixed feelings about the whole thing... i'm really sorry to have wasted their time, but if there's ever a documentary about my trip, i want it to be on my terms and not made to harvest views on some pakistani youtube channel.

anyways, i got myself a got bit of rest, before finally setting off on my solo bikepacking trip the next morning.Read more