Listeners' Walks: Cornwall
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Clare Balding takes the Cornish coastal path from Constantine Bay to Harlyn, in the company of two women for whom walking has been the cement in their friendship. Sarah Rossiter and Rebecca Newsom met at university and although their lives have taken them in very different directions; Sarah works for an investment bank , Rebecca for Greenpeace, they try to ensure they get together every few months to do some challenging hiking while putting the world to rights. In this repeat from earlier in 2017, Clare will be walking with listeners who have recommended people or places the programme should feature. Sarah wrote to Ramblings wishing to share their enthusiasm for walking and walking together.
The route they take can be found on OS Explorer 106 Newquay and Padstow.
Producer: Lucy Lunt.
Transcript
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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? Why would |
| 0:23.2 | somebody pay to go to a place called the death cell on a vacation? Extreme, peak danger. With me, |
| 0:29.9 | Natalia Melman Petrazella. Listen to the full series now, first on BBC Sounds. This is the BBC. |
| 0:39.7 | This is a BBC Radio 4 download. |
| 0:42.4 | You're listening to me, Claire Balding, with another edition of ramblings. |
| 0:51.0 | Looking down from this footpath, I can see children with nets in rock pools in the distance there are some dogs fighting. |
| 0:57.0 | There's a couple of joggers on the beach and the beach itself is about 200 metres in depth. |
| 1:04.0 | And right into the sea there's a couple of brave surfers. |
| 1:07.0 | We're on the north coast of Cornwall, not far from Padstow, in a bay called Constantine Bay. |
| 1:12.9 | I've come here to meet Sarah Rossiter and Rebecca Newsom, who have been friends for how long? |
| 1:18.7 | It's a tune. |
| 1:19.6 | Probably about 10 years now. |
| 1:21.7 | So, Eves and I met each other probably in freshers at Durham. |
| 1:25.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.3 | We initially rowed together. We initially rode together. |
| 1:27.7 | We hated rowing. |
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