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🗓️ 8 June 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Clare Balding is walking The Nidderdale Way in North Yorkshire for this series and here she completes the fourth leg of the route from Bewerley to Dacre Banks. She's accompanied by three members of the Tordoff family. Keith, came to the town of Pateley Bridge, that lies in the centre of the dale, twenty five years ago with his wife, Gloria. He gave up the stress of being a police officer in Leeds and took to running the local sweetshop, the oldest in the country. He is now a spokesman for the town and the area and does all he can to promote it, concerned as he is, that small rural towns like this, can die without the whole community pulling together. His son Alex is a local fireman and his partner Kirsty also works in the family business. Kirsty and Alex explain to Clare that their love of walking has taken them traveling all over the world, while Keith explains his love of Pateley Bridge means he no longer wishes to go anywhere else. Their walk starts at Bewerley Grange Chapel where Keith's parents are buried and ends in the village of Dacre Banks, right on the banks of the river Nidd. 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? 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 a BBC Radio |
0:36.5 | for download. |
0:38.3 | You're listening to me. |
0:41.0 | Claire Balding with another edition of Ramblings. |
0:45.5 | I'm quite enjoying the simplicity of it all. |
0:48.8 | Just every morning, get out of bed, have a shower, |
0:50.2 | get your walking gear on. |
0:53.2 | And all I've got to think about is where am I walking today? |
0:57.0 | It's so simple, and it makes me very happy. All right, that's it, good to go. |
1:03.0 | The Nididdle Way awaits. |
1:07.0 | And this is not far from where I finished walking yesterday, last week, if you were listening to the programme. |
1:14.0 | And I've arranged to meet the Tordoff family here. |
1:16.1 | Hello, Keith. |
1:17.1 | Good morning, Claire. |
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