Hopetoun with the Monday Walkers

Ramblings

BBC

Nature, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Science

4.5 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2014

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this series Clare Balding revisits some of her favourite walks and walkers from past programmes.

Here she travels to the Hopetoun Estate, just west of Edinburgh to meet up with a group of women she first met twelve years ago. The Monday walkers have been together for over twenty five years, when they first met Clare, their average age was early sixties, now it's mid seventies. They explain that although walking still keeps them fit, they do now tailor their routes to take account of the passing years. A wee dram may still be part of their days outings but skinny dipping is accepted as a past pleasure.

Producer: Lucy Lunt.

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0:00.0	11 climbers appeared to have died on the world's second highest mountain K2.
0:06.4	It was one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history.
0:09.9	Rock falls, avalanches.
0:11.6	Huge pieces of ice.
0:12.9	All are big enough to kill you.
0:14.3	He just flew out into Devoid, and he was gone.
0:17.3	How did it all go so wrong?
0:19.2	And is it really worth risking death to feel alive? Why would
0:23.1	somebody pay to go to a place called the death zone on vacation? Extreme, peak danger. With me,
0:29.9	Natalia Melman Petrazella. Listen to the full series now, first on BBC Sounds. This is a BBC Radio
0:36.4	for download.
0:38.3	You're listening to me.
0:40.9	Claire Balding with another edition of Ramblings.
0:48.8	Now rambling started in 1999, so we thought to celebrate the 15th year, which seems incredible, of this programme.
0:50.9	It would be nice to revisit some walks and some walkers that we've really enjoyed so today
0:56.5	i have come just north of edinburgh on the most gorgeous day it's clear and it's fresh and it's sunny
1:02.5	the colors around are wonderful uh to join a group of women who i first met 10 years ago they call themselves
1:08.4	the monday walkers and they have been walking together for 25
1:13.5	years is that right? Yes every Monday yeah without fail knees hips all right yes yeah and you are
1:24.0	just the best old friends aren't you yes yes and we've got Anne and we've got Annette and we've got Ginny and we've got Pat and we've got Ola,
1:31.3	all of whom I met for.
1:32.3	And last time we walked for 16 or 17 miles across the Highlands.
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