Valley of the Tears - The most feared road in Gran Canaria!

Feared by all that visit Gran Canaria, Valley of the Tears leaves little to the imagination with its wickedly steep gradients, hostile landscapes and a seemingly endless road that'll suck all the moisture from your body as you tackle its unforgiving slopes. Up for the challenge? Of course you are!

Start: La Aldea de San Nicolas
Length: 24.2 km
Summit: 1,360 m
Elevation Gain: 1,580 m
Average Gradient: 6.5%
Max Gradient: 25%

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Thank you for watching, until the next time ride safe and keep smiling :)

Mike

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Mike, your videos are fantastic, they are dreamy, inspiring and informative. The music and filming top them off. They never get old.

[Check-it-out]

🏆🎥🍿Oscar worthy footage, once again ! When I watch your videos, my mind is taken over by this feverish desire to do this ride too… right now ! So you must be doing something quite extraordinary, Mike ! Awesome, creative shots ! Added this one to my bucket list ✅.

[peatdeloosha]

Superb filming, music that blends and interest holding character. A typical Col Collective video !

[LGB]

Thank you Mike! Appreciate your hard work producing these videos

[martinkleinman]

Congrats Mike, best info/docu/video about VOTT ever!!!

[sabiduríasanadora]

Hi Mike, I did it today! And I agree 100% it's a biggest challange I have done on bycicle. I did all the way from Arguineguín to Soria to Aldea del San Nicolás the whole walley of tears to Ayacata and back to Arguineguín =brutal. Thanks for inspire me throw your video
Best regards

[backpackingonline]

Love you video, I use for my indoor workouts. I will watch later, from my bike.

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[dominicbritt]

14 minutes in and the choice of gravel bike and tyres makes perfect sense.
Another amazing video Mike - amazing cinematography - truly inspirational as I look out my window at the January rain...
Thank you!

[frankfrohmann]

Thank you so much Mike.

I remember this fantastic road very well.

[tlfreek]

you rode that whole thing in 14 minutes....awesome!

[felisagatuna]

Amazing video! Thanks, this goes directly to my bucket list

[guypressault]

Merci Mike. Toujours aussi merveilleux

[Ian]

Another amazing and inspirational climb. Fantastic viewing 👍

[fullhog]

Why 🤣🤣 i asked myself the same question whilst doing the VOTT. I have to admit, i got it totally wrong. The gearing on my bike was 36-28. It's was 37 degrees and i started from Mogan. And on top of that, i probably wasn't fit enough. You can get water from Carrizal de Tejeda if the cafe is open. I went through 5 litres on the day. And never pissed once. The gravel bike is definitely a good shout for anyone planning this beast of a climb. Great camera work as usual. I don't remember taking in much of the scenery 😂😂

[stijndeklerk]

One of the hardest outing I ever rode.. It's the road surface that makes this ride extra "memorable". You brought the right bike for the job.

[herschist]

8:32. “That’s just ridiculous!” 😜. I want my next bike in THAT color!

[ciarsz]

Absolutely Surreal Mike. Great video as always
Thanks

[del]

Watching this in 4K, absolutely stunning and fantastic camera work 👍🏼

[rpierrelouis]

Beautifully crafted video as always. Would love you to do a video on how you make these epic videos.

[derfx]

This is a beautiful video, as always. I have only one niggle: To me, it would intuitive sense to swap out blue and green for the gradient indicators at around 1:44. The progression blue-green-yellow makes much more sense, no?