The Dales Way, Part Five
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BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Clare Balding is now really into her stride as she comes close to the end of her journey along The Dales Way, walking from Dent to Sedbergh. The route is one of the most popular in England and enjoyed by thousands every year, mainly thanks to the enthusiastic group of volunteers who run The Dales Way Association. Today she walks with two of their members, Chris Grogan and Kath Doyle who explain why this route means so much to them. Producer: Lucy Lunt.
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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? |
| 0:22.3 | Why would somebody pay to go to a place called the death zone on vacation? |
| 0:27.3 | Extreme. |
| 0:28.3 | Peak Danger. |
| 0:29.3 | With me, Natalia Melman Petrazella. |
| 0:31.7 | Listen to the full series now, first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.7 | We have officially left Yorkshire, and we are in Cumbria for this section of the Dales way. |
| 0:41.8 | This is the fifth programme of sixth as we chart our way from Ilkley all the way through to Boness on Windermere. |
| 0:47.4 | And this section is going to go from Dent into Sedba. |
| 0:51.0 | So we're going to be looking at the Howgill Fells. |
| 0:53.7 | I think Wainwright, didn't he describe them as like a herd of sitting elephants? |
| 0:57.7 | This is magnificent countryside and the last section of the walk that we did |
| 1:01.3 | finished in Beckermons and we've hopped forward about 30 miles to pick up this section |
| 1:06.1 | and get into Sedbaugh before tonight and then do the last section tomorrow morning |
| 1:09.9 | into Windermere. |
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