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Ramblings

Wiltshire - Swindon

Ramblings

BBC

Nature, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Science

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2010

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Clare Balding walks through the Wiltshire countryside with a Swindon based group of people with early onset dementia. The support they give one another on their weekly walks means they feel less isolated and more positive about the condition, and so what if they occasionally get lost.

Producer: Maggie Ayre.

Transcript

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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.

0:28.2

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.

0:35.9

This is a podcast download from the BBC.

0:38.9

It's ramblings on Radio 4 with me, Claire Boulding.

0:44.1

And you're beautiful too.

0:46.4

Right, are we ready then?

0:47.8

Yeah, yeah.

0:48.9

Have we all got a copy of the instructions?

0:51.7

I haven't.

0:53.4

So it's okay.

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