Overton Hill, The Ridgeway
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Clare Balding joins Multiple sclerosis sufferer, Jo Fielder, on a training walk, just before she attempted to cover the entire length of the Ridgeway in just seven days. They were joined by Jo's husband, Jake and former track and field athlete, David Hemery. Winner of the 400 metres hurdles in the 1968 summer Olympics in Mexico City, David has been a source of inspiration and training advice to Jo as she prepares for this challenge. Tune in to find out if she made it.
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Producer: Lucy Lunt.
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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? |
| 0:22.3 | Why would somebody pay to go to a place called the death cell on a vacation? |
| 0:27.4 | Extreme. |
| 0:28.3 | Peak Danger. |
| 0:29.3 | With me, Natalia Melman Petrazella. |
| 0:31.8 | Listen to the full series now. |
| 0:33.4 | First on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.2 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:40.4 | This is the BBC. This is a BBC Radio 4 download. |
| 0:43.0 | You're listening to me. |
| 0:44.1 | Claire Balding with another edition of Ramblings. |
| 0:47.5 | There are grumpy-looking clouds heavy in the sky, |
| 0:50.5 | but they're being chased across us by a very strong wind, |
| 0:52.9 | and we're walking in the late afternoon in Wiltshire very near avebury that is sacred ground and silbury hill will be one of the markers on our route today and this series of ramblings is about you the listeners because these are your choices the places that you love to walk and the reasons why you love to walk there. |
| 1:12.6 | And Jo Field have got in touch with us. |
| 1:15.4 | Why did you think this is a route I want to share? |
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