Simon Watts is cycling to Sydney, Australia from his hometown of Sheffield

The 31-year-old is taking on the mammoth journey in aid of the mental health charity Mind Over Mountains.   Footage courtesy of SWNS.

Transcript

00:00Hey up, day nine of cycling around the world and it's raining. Oh, doesn't it just remind me of Yorkshire?

00:30I'm going to go to the top of the mountain.

01:00One, two, three, two, one.

01:30One, two, three, two, one.

02:00I don't know.

02:30To anyone that's interested, this is my route to Australia.

02:36I start in Europe by following a few of the Eurovelos before cutting down into Turkey

02:39and then cutting up into Georgia.

02:41From Tbilisi, I'll fly to Uzbekistan, then cycle through Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan

02:45and then enter China.

02:47I'll cut down through China towards Southeast Asia where I'll do Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,

02:51Thailand and Malaysia.

02:52Then I'll either fly to Perth from Malaysia or cut down into Indonesia and fly from Jakarta.

02:57From Perth, I'll follow the Great Asian Road towards Sydney.

02:59I'm completely open and flexible to the route changing as I gather information en route,

03:03but this is the plan so far.

03:04The route home's yet to be finalised.

03:29The route home's yet to be finalised.

03:59The route home's yet to be finalised.

04:04So far, I'm gonna walk to you on this one.

04:08I can drawing a card and see if there's no unequbugoh where I can walk and see has no rest work,

04:08there's no space and that's needed to be finalised.

04:10There is nothing light in your Wouldn't haverics to do.

04:12The route.

04:13What you need to do with me is point where I've fixed.

04:14When you're looking at the wish clock, I spent a few days in ao the mountains.

04:16You