Brother of late Amazing Race Canada contestant biking across Canada in his honour
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Growing up, Daniel McAlpine, 25, said he always followed his big brother Kenneth around as he went on his next adventure. Now he is embarking on one of his own.
Growing up, Daniel McAlpine, 25, said he always followed his big brother Kenneth around as he went on his next adventure. Now he is embarking on one of his own.
On Monday, Daniel started a cross-Canada bike ride from his hometown of Collingwood, Ont., to Rossland, B.C., in honour of his big brother’s legacy in what he is calling the Big Ol Gerry Tour.
“He would say I’m a little bit nuts because he wasn’t a big biker like this; he was more of a mountain biker. But I think he would have been so supportive and cheering me on the whole way, and I know he is,” Daniel said.
He joked that while he thinks his big brother would have joined him for part of the trip, Daniel doughts he would have made the whole 45-day journey on a bike.
In 2017, Kenneth and his friend Ryan Lachapelle formed Team GIVE’R for the fifth season of The Amazing Race Canada and finished in second place.
In 2019, Kenneth died at the age of 28 in a hiking accident in B.C.’s Kootenay region.
Daniel hopes to honour his late brother’s passion for adventure and the outdoors while also raising money for the foundation formed in his name.
“They pushed me, and I always had to keep up, so I think that definitely pushed me into the path that I now am on. He was a larger-than-life kind of guy, and he always loved the next adventure. He always loved doing very out-there things.”
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