Hsieh spent a grueling two months on the road, dealing with vomiting, diarrhea, colds, coughing blood, attacks from Tibetan mastiffs, and blisters in his groin (the result of weeks on his bike). At one point while rushing through the evening darkness on his way to Deqen County, he nearly tumbled into a Baima Snow Mountain crevasse hundreds of meters deep.
在為期兩個月餐風飲雪的旅程中，他曾上吐下瀉、感冒咳血、被藏獒夾攻，胯下也因長期騎車而潰爛流膿，更曾在越過白馬雪山、摸黑趕往德欽縣城的下山路上，差點連人帶車跌入幾百公尺深的斷崖… …。