Navigation giant Garmin has launched a new docuseries initiative on its YouTube channel. The first series, 7 Days Out, is now live.
7 Days Out follows “two regular guys” who parachute into the mountains of Nepal for a 7-day hike. Along the way, they discover the power of friendship, perseverance, and, of course, Garmin smartwatches. With the help of fēnix 7X Pro smartwatches, Joel and Wes trekked the famous Langtang Circuit in the Himalayas. Garmin says, “By monitoring heart rate zones, Body Battery energy levels, altitude acclimation, and more, they set out to push past their own limits and beat yesterday.”
The Langtang Circuit, a 48-mile trek in the South Asian country of Nepal, takes you from bamboo forests to remote mountain villages to 15,000-foot peaks. The circuit is stunning and widely known as an explorer’s utopia, but the journey is also physically demanding for the average hiker. While the series is definitely an opportunity for Garmin to showcase its range of smartwatches and navigation and satellite communication devices, the episodes are not overwhelmingly commercialized, and the videography is stunning. Nepal remains one of the few countries left in the world that feel truly remote, and 7 Days Out captures that sense of isolation and challenge that the mountain kingdom presents the traveler.
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