A Daredevil Photographer, a Winter Climber and an Atlantic Rower

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The Spirit of Adventure Festival is hosted this weekend by Paralympic champion Karen Darke and features Claire Alldritt, who embarked on a 1000 mile trek with her horses in 2022. Rachel joins them to chat next adventures.

In this week’s podcast excerpt, Mark meets climber Guy Robertson whose latest book, The Great Mixed Climbs of Scotland, co-produced with photographer Hamish Frost, highlights winter climbs in the country.

In a few days, Milli Abrams of Tribe Yarns in East Neuk, will start a 3000 mile solo row across the Atlantic. Milli joins Mark and Rachel before the adventure begins.

Few patches of Caledonian pinewoods remain in Scotland. Near Glenmore Lodge, Mark talks to author Dr Ron Summers about future conservation of the pinewoods.

The UNESCO Trail links Scotland's 16 UNESCO sites. Rachel chats about the trail's highlights with Ed Forrest, the Director of the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere, at the Crawick Water.

A new exhibition at National Galleries of Scotland: Portrait features Alfred Buckham, an aerial photographer who pushed the boundaries of 20th Century photography and aviation. Mark meets curator Louise Pearson to explore his death defying adventures and innovative techniques.

The North Bridge, Edinburgh is currently under repair. In 2024, Maud Start met Benn Isherwood, Technical Advisor for the North Bridge Refurbishment Project, in Leith, where parts of the bridge were being painted.

Rachel joins Brian Johnson at the Crawick Multiverse to discover how the land art installation was created.

Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's lease at demonstration farm Auchnerran in Aberdeenshire has recently ended. Mark joins Director Dr Nick Hesford at the farm to discuss its legacy of achievements.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett. For most of my career, I've been on live radio, and I love it.
0:13.3	But I've always wondered, what if we'd had more time? How much deeper does the story go?
0:19.2	I remember having this very sharp thought
0:21.7	that what you do right now,
0:23.6	this is it, this defines your life.
0:26.0	I'm ready to talk and ready to listen.
0:28.3	I'm insulted by how little the medical community is ever bothered with this.
0:33.9	Ready to talk with me, Emma Barnard, is my new podcast.
0:37.0	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:39.4	This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.
0:48.8	Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.
0:51.3	This is the Scotland Outdoors podcast episode that we actually
0:55.5	build from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called Out of Doors. And this
1:00.6	week we are adventure-tastic. Enjoy. I was driving through Edinburgh on Thursday afternoon,
1:13.3	down with one of these these leafy roads,
1:17.9	you know, trees either side and what have you, and there was an older woman, you know,
1:21.5	and she was pushing one of those tart and shopping trolley things, going along, going along,
1:23.4	being very careful on the pavement.
1:26.7	And all of a sudden she looked up and she saw this leaf,
1:29.1	and she suddenly threw herself into activity and tried to grab the leaf and I thought yep you're one of ours good morning I'm mark
1:34.9	Stephen sitting there aside the fire Rachel Stewart good morning that's becoming quite tricky to do
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