Our Story – The Eastern Cairngorms

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ashie Brebner shares his memories with Mark of building the secret Howff at Ben a Bhuird.

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?
0:06.6	Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,
0:12.7	and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked.
0:15.7	Good things come to those who don't wait.
0:18.7	Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.
0:24.1	The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.
0:33.7	Hello and thanks for choosing to listen to this.
0:35.9	I'm Mark Stephen.
0:37.2	We're digging into the archive again this week
0:39.2	and this time we've come up with a program
0:41.3	we made for a series called Our Story back in 2013.
0:44.7	Now it features a trip up to the secret house
0:47.0	of Benavurr and eastern Kyrngorms
0:48.8	and it tells the story of the people
0:51.7	who created that remarkable wee structure.
0:57.0	You've got to want to love the cairngorms.
1:00.1	It's not a weekend.
1:01.7	It's a one-night stand.
1:04.1	They're not obvious mountains.
1:05.8	If you ask a child to draw a mountain, it's jaggy and sharp.
1:08.3	And cairngombs aren't like that.
1:10.0	They're much more rounded, much more feminine. They're much more rounded much more feminine they're much more like
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