The Nidderdale Way: Pateley Bridge to Scar House Reservoir

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this series Clare Balding will walk the Nidderdale Way, a spectacular fifty- three mile route in North Yorkshire, encircling the valley of the River Nidd. On this first section from Pateley Bridge to Scar House Reservoir, she's joined by local walking expert, Stephen Spellman and Michelin star chef, Frances Atkins. Frances is one of only six female chefs in the UK to have a Michelin Star, her restaurant is en route at Ramsgill . She explains how important walking is for her as a source of inspiration and relaxation from the stresses of the kitchen. Stephen advises Clare on the right equipment to have when tackling consecutive days of walking. They're also joined by Frances's black Labrador, Polly. While something of a law unto herself, Polly clearly loves this landscape of moorland, rolling green fields, dry stone walls and remote farm houses as much as her three companions. 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.
0:44.8	The bunting is out.
0:49.5	Union flags dangling from the ribbons that criss-crossed the street here.
0:52.6	The houses quite close together, and this is Pately Bridge.
0:58.2	I'm standing by a sign that says Nidderdale Way, 53 miles, start and finish.
1:07.4	So the Niderdale Way awaits and over the series of ramblings I'm going to be walking pretty much all of it with different guests along the way. Almost immediately we've got away from the way.
1:15.2	Almost immediately we've got away from the traffic because that is a very busy road going through Pately Bridge
1:17.9	and dropped down towards the river, just houses between us
1:21.7	and the river Nid itself.
1:23.7	And my guess for the first section of this walk
1:26.5	are Francis Atkins and Stephen Spellman.
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