And a marathon it was. They narrowly escaped from bombings due to civil unrest in Nepal, and in India Lexton had to fend off a particularly vicious monkey’s attack of his camera. Not to mention, all the while, Lexton carried his Panasonic DVX100-A camera and all its peripheral equipment on his back – each day getting heavier as the number of master tapes accumulated.

During this trip, Lexton and Shuttleworth had such a tight itinerary, with the flights scheduled back to back from one country to the next. Sometimes, the map was deceiving, and what looked like a short flight as the eagle flies turned out to include as many as five connections and thousands of extra miles of flying from one country, to another, and then in a roundabout way, they could get to their destination – only to do the reverse just to get back out again. And with some smaller countries only having one flight per day, or even per week, it was imperative that they stay on schedule.

But that did not deter Lexton, his vision was clear and he knew what he wanted. Daily he shot footage for the music video that would tie the story together, and yet be iconic of each country. He scouted a new location, cast his talent, and shot every day. In addition to this, he captured the traditional footage required by the documenting of such a journey. But at the onset of the journey, there was as yet no song – it still had to be written.

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