Summary
Continuing his series of short walks for winter days that take in city skylines, Stuart Maconie walks the Garth outside of Cardiff with a group who call themselves Welsh Women Walking. As they admire spectacular views of the city and over the Bristol Channel to Somerset and Devon, Stuart hears from one woman who says these walks with her friends, saved her life and sanity after the death of her son.
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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. Peak Danger. |
| 0:29.3 | With me, Natalia Melman Petrazella. |
| 0:31.7 | Listen to the full series now. |
| 0:33.3 | First on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.5 | It's a raw, bitingly cold morning, |
| 0:39.7 | and we've come out to the outskirts of Cardiff |
| 0:42.3 | for another rambling skyline walk of Cardiff, as you've probably guessed. |
| 0:47.5 | And today we're going up a hill or maybe a mountain, |
| 0:51.8 | which will depend on whether you've seen that rather whimsical Hugh Grant film, |
| 0:55.5 | the man who went up a hill and came down a mountain. |
| 0:57.3 | But more of that, perhaps, later, |
| 0:58.7 | because we're going to the garth on the outskirts of Cardiff, |
| 1:03.0 | and I am going to be walking today with these ladies. |
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