Clare's 25th Year! Bakewell with the RamSoc

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🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This is Clare's 25th year of walking and talking on Ramblings! To mark this, ahem, milestone her first hike of 2025 is with a group of students from the University of Nottingham who are all members of the RamSoc (The Rambling and Hiking Society) which has just celebrated its 90th anniversary.

All of today's walkers are under the age of 25, so weren't even around when Clare first stepped out with the Ramblings microphone. It's joyful to know that walking in the great outdoors continues as a rich part of our culture with young people like Theo, Amy, and others leading the way...

They met in Bakewell, Derbyshire on a rainy, windy, wintery Sunday morning and set off on a circular hike taking in the grounds of Chatsworth House.

Producer: Karen Gregor Presenter: Clare Balding

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0:00.0	Eleven climbers appeared to have died on the world's second highest mountain K2.
0:06.0	It was one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history.
0:10.0	Rock falls, avalanches.
0:11.0	Huge pieces of ice. All are big enough to kill you.
0:14.0	He just flew out into Devoid and he was gone.
0:17.0	How did it all go so wrong?
0:19.0	And is it really worth risking death to feel alive?
0:22.3	Why would somebody pay to go to a place called the death cell on a vacation?
0:27.4	Extreme. Peak Danger.
0:29.3	With me, Natalia Melman Petrazella.
0:31.8	Listen to the full series now.
0:33.4	First on BBC Sounds.
0:36.4	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:40.6	It is 25 years since I first presented ramblings.
0:45.6	And I remember at the time thinking,
0:47.6	oh, this would be a lovely programme to do for a year or two.
0:50.7	Let's see whether it lasts any longer.
0:52.9	I never thought that quarter of a century on,
0:56.4	we would still be walking new, fresh, fabulous routes. And today I've joined a group of students,
1:02.9	none of whom were born when we started doing this program. But they're all keen listeners,
1:09.9	and most importantly, they are very keen listeners and most importantly they are very keen
1:12.4	ramblers. They are members of the University of Nottingham Ramsock, the Rambling Society.
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