“When I heard Charley had been in a horrendous motorcycle accident I was shocked,” Ewan remembers, “but because of that and a subsequent accident he had we sort of found each other again and his rehab brought us closer than ever before.” Then he thought ‘Charley wouldn’t like that’ so he took the bike instead.” “I destroyed my legs in the accident and when my wife called Ewan to tell him I was hurt, he was about to get on his bike to go to work and he said he actually paused and reached for his car keys instead as he was in such shock. However, with Ewan living in America and me working on other projects we kind of drifted apart, so the real catalyst was my bike accident in 2016.”Ĭhatting to MCN before the third instalment of the ‘Ewan and Charley travel chronicles’ debuted on Apple TV+ on September 18, Charley Boorman is looking relaxed and happy – a far cry from where he was just four years ago. “The idea for Long Way Up has probably been kicking around since we finished Long Way Down in 2007, because when you do a big and exciting trip you have a comedown afterwards and the way to get over it is to talk about the next adventure.
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