Gurkha recruits have taken on one of their toughest challenges yet as they enter the final stages of the gruelling nine-month training required to join the elite Brigade of Gurkhas.
Defence Ex in the Yorkshire Dales is all about defending ground from the enemy.
Designed to test how recruits remain resilient while physically and mentally exhausted, it involves the young Gurkhas digging a trench systems for 48 hours, with minimal or no sleep.
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