vale la pena riportare cosa risponde Dan Milner (il fotografo che era con Hunter nel video) nel forum di PB sulle critiche allo sfruttamento degli animali e all'opportunità di un tale viaggio. spero la cosa sia "consentita":
The reality of doing a trip like this is that it brings an income to a dozen local people, giving them work for 12 days. It was never an intention to go there and flash out expensive bikes in people's faces, and that was never how it was received. The locals we
met and engaged with don't share our 'western' obsession with objects and property ownership and such perceived wealth. Wealth to them is owning a donkey, horse or yak, and communally a herd of goats.
The pack animals are treated well. No local can afford to lose one. Our pack animals were actually used to haul local's resources too, into remote herding settlements. For info, when we finished the trip back at the village by the road, our empty (and paid for) horses were then used to take locals food and wood stoves back to the villages where they had started too, and our surplus food was divided up between them too.
More than a dozen local people who exist on subsistence herding got paid an officially agreed rate for their days they were with us. They use the money to buy bread flour and pulses. These people are the toughest you will ever meet. Their lives are hard and unprivileged. Yet they are also the most friendly and welcoming I have ever met, even with us being on 'expensive' bikes.
Just to ask: Do you have the same gut feeling when you ride your own expensive bike through your local inner city housing estate where there is 80% unemployment and families are on the poverty line?"
mi sembra particolarmente interessante l'ultimo passaggio, che immagino si riferisca agli USA, ma mi sembra che potrebbe applicarsi bene anche all'Italia.