Morgen weer een aflevering van het programma Mountain
Dus op woensdag 21 mei om 20.00 uur.
Het volgende is gekopieerd van de website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mountain/3/5. Central Scotland
In the Central Highlands, Griff Rhys Jones explores Glencoe, the Cairngorm range and Ben Nevis - Britain's highest mountain.
Two hundred years ago, this area was considered the 'badlands of Britain'; a no-go area for anyone except clansmen. Today, over 100,000 people climb 'the Ben' each year. This is the story of how we commandeered the mountains for our pleasure.
The Highlands were transformed by General Wade's road building spree in 1724. Where soldiers first trod, men of science and tourists followed. The Victorians spotted the region's potential, and embarked on some large-scale landscape gardening to convert this wild, windswept landscape into a romantic retreat. Griff explores ambitious feats of Victorian engineering and a stunning example of a Victorian shooting lodge. Today, the tourist industry is booming and man is finding ever more ingenious ways to play in the mountains - from the traditional game of Shinty, to races up Ben Nevis and dog-sledding on Cairngorm - Griff explores what these mountains have to offer. We see Griff in new vein as he runs up Britain's highest mountain Ben Nevis with a group training for the formidable annual Ben Race. He goes dog sledding and skis across the bleak but arresting Cairngorm plateau before digging and bedding down in his very own snowhole shelter. With visually stunning high definition ariel photography, the breathtaking beauty of these majestic mountains is revealed as never before.
We have cultivated these mountains as a pleasure-ground, but as Griff discovers, these peaks still possess an awe-inspiring power; try as we might, man will never fully tame these mountains.
