Lancaster - Slyne
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2011
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Broadcaster, journalist and keen walker Stuart Maconie continues this series of Ramblings, finding walks that are perfect for short winter days and which offer skyline views of British cities. Today, he's setting out from the village of Slyne in Lancashire and heading to look over the historical city of Lancaster.
Producer: Helen Chetwynd.
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| 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? |
| 0:22.2 | Why would somebody pay to go to a place called the death zone on vacation? |
| 0:27.3 | Extreme. |
| 0:28.2 | Peak Danger. |
| 0:29.3 | With me, Natalia Melman Petrazella. |
| 0:31.7 | Listen to the full series now. |
| 0:33.3 | First on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:48.0 | This particular road we're on now, which is Bottomdale Road, is actually thought to be a Roman road. |
| 0:56.1 | The monks from Furnace Abbey used to come along here. |
| 0:59.5 | Furness Abbey's on the other side of the bay. |
| 1:01.6 | They used to come across the bay to Hess Bank, |
| 1:04.0 | and then they'd come along here to Holton. |
| 1:07.7 | Because at Houlton, they used to lay traps in the loon for salmon and then crossing it here we have what the new name Ancliffe lane it's the old name is the green lane the first particular route that I know of coming along here was Robert the Bruce's army he came along here back in 1322 and he sacked Lancaster. Right, right. So as you can |
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