Over the Hill walkers, Windsor Great Park
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This series is themed 'Ramblings Revisited' as Clare Balding walks again with some of her favourite and most memorable guests.
In the spring of 2006, Clare went rambling with a female hockey team who had been walking together for 15 years. In this time they'd developed enduring friendships on as well as off the pitch.
Now, eight years on - and with most of the original walkers now retired - Clare is going back to catch up with the 'Over the Hill' club. The group started-up after an advertisement was placed on the hockey club wall; it stipulated that the requirements of those attending were 'A sense of humour, walking boots or strong shoes, haversack, waterproof clothing and approximately £65 plus beer and lunch money'.
The group walk in a different location each time they gather, this week they'll be in Windsor Great Park.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
Transcript
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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 4 |
| 0:36.7 | download. |
| 0:38.3 | You're listening to me. |
| 0:40.9 | Claire Balding with another edition of Ramblings. |
| 0:48.1 | I've been doing ramblings now for 15 years, so we decided in this series to revisit some of the people we've walked with before, walk in different places, but catch up with |
| 0:52.1 | and find out how they all are. |
| 0:53.7 | So today, on a beautiful, crisp, clear winter's morning, |
| 0:57.7 | I've come to Windsor Great Park to meet up with a group of hockey players. |
| 1:01.3 | They all play for the Windsor Hockey Club. |
| 1:03.3 | But they set up a walking group some years ago, gosh, about probably 25 years ago, 24 years ago. |
| 1:10.7 | 25 years next year, 2015. |
| 1:13.6 | And it's called over the hill. |
| 1:15.2 | Patsy, is that representative of how you feel? |
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