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Pennie Latin introduces conversations with mountaineers, hillwalkers, mountain rescue teams, weather forecasters and historians who discuss their love of a vertical challenge.

Pennie Latin introduces conversations with mountaineers, hillwalkers, mountain rescue teams, weather forecasters and historians who discuss their love of a vertical challenge. Featuring adventurer Mark Beaumont, mountaineers Stephen Venables and Chris Bonnington and mountaineer, writer and self-confessed risk-taker Joe Simpson.

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Thu 30 Dec 2010 00:30
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  • Stark Talk – Joe Simpson

    Joe talks to Edi about why he climbs, his guilt at surviving accidents when others have died, his success as a writer, his atheism, loneliness, his dislike of children and his thoughts on death.

    Duration: 27:01

  • Mountain Tales - Schiehallion

    Schiehallion, or the fairy hill of the Caledonians, is home to many great Mountain Tales.

    Duration: 26:10

  • Out of Doors – Rescue Dogs

    Out of Doors reporter Lesley Kay travelled to Banchory to chat with Alison and the real star of the show – Midge.

    Duration: 05:48

  • Burns Poem – My Heart’s in the Highlands

    Dawn Steele reading Burns Poem My Heart's in the Highlands.

    Duration: 01:06

  • The Day I Didn’t Die – Jamie Andrew

    Scottish mountaineer Jamie Andrew talks to Olivia Giles about the climb that claimed the life of his close friend and very nearly his own.

    Duration: 26:36

  • The Man Who Cycled the Americas 1

    The simply amazing Mark Beaumont – the Man Who Cycled the Americas.

    Duration: 26:26

  • 4 Seasons in a Day - David Whalley

    Colin Prior and David Whalley discuss the good weather that gives them both a calling to head into the mountains.

    Duration: 28:14

  • Life in Question – Stephen Venables

    Stephen Venables talks about how his attitude to risk-taking changed when his eldest son died at the age of twelve.

    Duration: 26:38

  • Out of Doors – Ben Nevis Challenge

    Julie McIlroy was one of the participants in the 2008 Ben Nevis challenge. Julie has cerebral palsy and prior to Ben Nevis, she’d crossed the Andes in her wheelchair.

    Duration: 02:04

  • Stark Talk – Chris Bonington

    Edi Stark in conversation with veteran mountaineer Chris Bonington who reveals some startling thoughts on climbing, family and death.

    Duration: 26:24

  • Mountain Tales – Cairngorm

    An episode of Mark Stephen's Mountain Tales on the Cairngorm.

    Duration: 26:18

  • 4 Seasons in a Day – Geoff Monk

    Colin Prior hears how one mans love for the climate has changed people's relationship with the weather across the country.

    Duration: 28:30

  • The Journey – Rory Stewart

    Mark Stephen's guest is explorer and adventurer Rory Stewart.

    Duration: 26:27

  • Past Lives - Arran

    Mark Stephen spent a day on Arran where he met local archivist Stuart Gogh who promised to take him to the final resting place of what he described as the victim of a sensational Victorian murder.

    Duration: 08:03

  • The Man Who Cycled the Americas 2

    We join Mark as he battles the elements to get to Argentina in time to climb the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere, Aconcagua.

    Duration: 26:27

Broadcast

  • Thu 30 Dec 2010 00:30
    ±«Óãtv Radio Scotland