1 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:10,720 Best foot forward. 2 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:16,600 What better way to explore our shore 3 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:20,680 than striding along its salty margin? 4 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,000 Nothing beats a coastal walk. 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,200 Thousands of miles of marked paths circle our shores. 6 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,280 And plenty of secret ones too. 7 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,400 I've certainly done the distance. 8 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:41,520 But I've never taken you on my favourite coastal walk. Until now. 9 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:46,760 'I'm heading to our last great wilderness. 10 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:51,200 'And the team are going that extra mile too. 11 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,560 'Andy attempts a walk above the water.' 12 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,760 And over that edge is a secret path 13 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,680 that's haunted my imagination for years. 14 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,120 What happens if I come off? Well, you've got big problems. 15 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:10,320 Ruth is tracking down Victorian treasure hunters. 16 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:14,640 Ladies who risked life and limb for ferns. 17 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:18,160 I've got my gathering pole, I've got my ladder, 18 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,600 all I've got to do now is reach that fern. 19 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,920 Coast newcomer and physicist Helen Arney explores 20 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:34,200 the secrets of a path built for pleasure, and terror. 21 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,400 It really feels like something is about to happen. 22 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,280 SHE SCREAMS I can see the sea! 23 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,440 SHE SCREAMS 24 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,560 Join us off the beaten track 25 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,960 as we explore secret paths to hidden treasure. 26 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,280 My secret path lies on the extreme edge, at Cape Wrath. 27 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,840 Here, the mainland's tallest sea cliffs keep visitors at bay. 28 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,640 In Cape Wrath's mysterious heart there are no roads, 29 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:36,440 cars, or people to drive them. 30 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,360 The only way to explore the isolated interior is on foot. 31 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:48,800 But glorious treasures await those willing to walk on the wild side. 32 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:55,600 I first took on Cape Wrath back in the '70s with my dad. 33 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:00,040 I was 18 and I was cutting my teeth on extreme adventures, 34 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:04,040 ready for isolation, ready for difficult challenges. 35 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:09,000 But that unpopulated wilderness out there had a surprise, a beach. 36 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:14,040 Not just any old beach, but the most beautiful beach I've ever seen. 37 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,360 I can't wait to show you what it's like. 38 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,040 I'm heading to Sandwood Bay, 39 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:25,640 but I'll begin on the other side of the cape. 40 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:27,200 After the ferry crossing 41 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:31,240 I'll hitch a ride on a road rarely travelled to the Lighthouse. 42 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,840 Then I'll tread my own path to my favourite beach, 43 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:40,560 a three-day adventure beginning on the tiny ferry. 44 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:43,440 Hi, John. Hi. 45 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,400 The cape feels like an island, 46 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,760 disconnected to the rest of Britain and the mainland, but it's so 47 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,280 remote that this is the easiest way of getting there, taking your ferry. 48 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,600 It's the main gateway, aye. 49 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,320 A lot of tourists think it's an island, you know. 50 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,920 What do you think it would have been like living out there? 51 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:04,880 It would be a hard life. 52 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,840 You'd need plenty of Scotch whisky about you I'd think at night, 53 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:08,960 to pass the nights. 54 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,200 The isolation of Cape Wrath doesn't only attract tourists. 55 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:24,760 Some ten years back I witnessed how the MOD seal off the cape 56 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:29,680 to create a live firing range for 1,000lb bombs. 57 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:36,920 Now I want to discover why this wild coast 58 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:38,960 was abandoned in the first place. 59 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,080 Once a handful of shepherds and their families 60 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,960 had crofts scattered across the cape. 61 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:51,960 To see what became of these coastal folk I'm with John Mackenzie, 62 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,760 one of the last to leave. 63 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:56,480 We're exploring the MOD site. 64 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,880 So this must be the edge of the range now. 65 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:02,480 It's the start of the range here, aye. 66 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,240 The barrier's up, so no shells flying around, no bombs dropping. 67 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,080 Aye, we're OK today. What's that? 68 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,120 Is that an old building, remains of a building? 69 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,320 That's the remains of the old school. Oh, is it? 70 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,920 Can we go and have a look? It's not very big. 71 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,080 No, got a photograph of it here. 72 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,080 Oh, aye. 73 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,880 I've never seen such a small school. It's like a garden shed. I know. 74 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,360 So that's the school, with four pupils in. 75 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,240 Four, is that how many children were here? HE LAUGHS 76 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,200 That's the guy from the ferry. 77 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,680 Wow. You can see where the front door was. 78 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:36,680 Four children, so four desks. 79 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,120 Four children, plenty bigger. NICK LAUGHS 80 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,040 No hiding at the back of class. No, no. 81 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:48,440 'These stones were the foundation of the community - the school. 82 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,920 'But it closed in 1947.' 83 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:58,080 When the school closed down, what did that mean for your family? 84 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,480 Well, we had to move to the mainland so I could go to school over there, 85 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:06,480 and probably that's the start of the end of people living here. 86 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:10,920 So the closure of the school was the end for a community living out here. 87 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,040 I would say so. I would say so. 88 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,600 Shortage of pupils meant the crofters' time was up. 89 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,600 But you can still walk in their footsteps. 90 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,520 John's father maintained their only road. 91 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,680 He looked after this road, 92 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,600 from the middle '20s to the middle '40s. 93 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,240 How long was the road? 11 miles. 94 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,560 What's it feel like to be walking on your father's road? 95 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,880 Aye, it's touching. Yeah? 96 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,480 I'm heading on into the heart of the cape 97 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,800 towards my coastal treasure, 98 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,520 saving my legs for later, I'm hitching a lift 99 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,160 to where the road runs out. 100 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,400 This might feel like the road to nowhere, 101 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,760 but in fact it goes all the way out over the moorlands to the 102 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:12,440 lighthouse here at Cape Wrath, my last contact with civilisation. 103 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:18,240 After that it's an eight-mile coast walk south through the wilderness, 104 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:22,200 a wilderness unlike any other in Britain. 105 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,280 But at the end of it there's a treasure, 106 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,760 a glittering diamond in the rough, Sandwood Bay. It's got a freshwater 107 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,480 loch and a beautiful river spilling out across the sands into the sea. 108 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,120 'The end of the road. 109 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:46,240 'I'm on my own, and it's a lonely location, 110 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,240 'even for a lighthouse.' 111 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,080 You're not likely to bump into too many people out here, but over 112 00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:00,640 there at the lighthouse live the last two residents of Cape Wrath. 113 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,440 But who would chose to live in a place like this? 114 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:10,040 I'll discover what it's like to live here later. 115 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:14,000 But the splendid isolation of Scotland's Cape Wrath 116 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,200 doesn't suit everyone. 117 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:21,800 For easier going, seek out England's South West Coast Path. 118 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:26,680 Start hiking at Poole Harbour 119 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:32,440 and 630 miles of track unfold before you. 120 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:36,560 The tourist trail threading around our southernmost sea 121 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:38,480 is strung with pearls. 122 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,560 Natural wonders, 123 00:08:42,560 --> 00:08:44,440 and man-made delights. 124 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:03,320 Today many walkers make a beeline for the golden sands. 125 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,480 But it wasn't always that way. 126 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:09,280 In the Victorian age, the craze wasn't for beaches 127 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,200 but for botany. 128 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,360 A particular type of plant fascinated collectors 129 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,320 who flocked to Lynmouth. 130 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:26,560 Ruth is in town to take a leaf out of the Victorians' book. 131 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:30,560 In the 19th century Devon was gripped by a strange epidemic, 132 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:33,760 with an equally strange name. 133 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:36,960 Pterodomania had taken hold of the town. 134 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:42,640 People were roaming the coastal paths wide-eyed with green fingers. 135 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,440 Devon was in the throes of fern fever. 136 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,240 We take these garden favourites for granted. 137 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,360 But surprisingly, 150 years ago fern mania 138 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,480 blossomed into an obsession for gentile Victorian ladies. 139 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,720 Fanatics grew ferns in glass cabinets, 140 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,040 and nurseries dedicated to the plants sprang up. 141 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:21,280 But the real action was in the wild warm climate of these Devon cliffs. 142 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:28,440 A generation of young women was drawn to this land of the ferns. 143 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:34,160 Sowing the seeds of this growing craze was a resident of nearby 144 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:37,120 Ilfracombe, Charlotte Chanter. 145 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,680 It's not the greatest of pictures, but she was never one 146 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:43,480 for sitting still to have her portrait taken, and it was her book, 147 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:49,720 Ferny Combes, that really inspired a legion of followers to abandon 148 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:54,440 the regular tourist track, and go on the path of fern enlightenment. 149 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:02,200 'Published in 1856, this slim volume spurred ladies on to leave 150 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:06,240 'their drawing rooms and walk this coast, fern collecting. 151 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,720 Why were Victorians so fond of fronds? 152 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,960 'Author Sarah Whittingham is sharing her wisdom.' 153 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:20,040 The Victorian age was the heyday of the amateur naturalist. 154 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,680 Fern-gathering parties were usually of mixed sexes, 155 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:27,240 and as Punch said, "The rarest species usually 156 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:31,560 "grow in the least frequented spots," so you and your companion can 157 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:35,920 disappear off into the hedgerow or round the corner... 158 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:39,200 Far away from the chaperone. Exactly. Exactly. 159 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,680 I love this picture because she's got caught in the brambles 160 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:46,520 and she's looking up really peeved at these two, and she's saying 161 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:50,480 "Please can you identify this fern for me," and she's like I can't... 162 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,320 Well, they're too busy flirting to take any notice of her. 163 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,520 Ferns and flirting again, yes, definitely. 164 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:02,080 This passionate pursuit was also caught up with sexual politics. 165 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,520 Botany in particular was very fashionable among women. 166 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:06,640 It was one of those areas 167 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:08,800 where you were allowed to be clever, wasn't it? 168 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:12,200 Exactly. Many women were writers of books on ferns, 169 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,920 and they were many of the early collectors. 170 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,120 'The freedom to study ferns help foster early feminism 171 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:23,560 'as women strode out on their own.' 172 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:27,040 We're taking a walk in their shoes, 173 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:28,920 and their skirts. 174 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:34,640 'Time to hitch up our petticoats and start fern foraging. 175 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,080 'Dressed for action, 176 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,480 'we are well-equipped to collect our quarry.' 177 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:42,640 You'd bring your baskets, 178 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:46,280 a nice narrow long fern trowel to really get in there 179 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,760 among the rocks and dig up a fern specimen, and if it's nice and small 180 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:54,840 you can put it in your vasculum, which is a tin collecting case. 181 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,680 If you're a rather unprincipled botanist you might be digging up 182 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:01,680 vast quantities of fern. There was one writer who actually 183 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:04,320 had to employ a man with a cart to take them home. 184 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:08,320 That's dedication...and despoliation of the countryside. 185 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,480 I'm afraid so, yes. 186 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:12,320 For the dedicated fern hunter 187 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,280 the passion didn't stop on the coastal path. 188 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:21,160 The fern lover could literally fill their home with ferns. Not just real 189 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:26,080 ones, but they could have images of ferns from carpets to chamber pots. 190 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:29,680 Teapot too, covered in ferns. Teapot's lovely. 191 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:32,400 Custard creams. They're a bit of a sight. 192 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:37,480 Custard creams were invented around 1908, and the pattern on them 193 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:41,320 represents fern crosiers, because ferns were so popular at the time. 194 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,080 And we've got a violinist here. 195 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,440 I mean, this isn't fern music as well, is it? It is, it is. 196 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,840 This is the Fern Waltz. You could have the Ferns Polka as well. 197 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,160 I'm liking it. It is addictive, isn't it? 198 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,360 You catching fern fever? I think I might be. 199 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:57,680 Good! 200 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:03,760 But off-the-shelf souvenirs 201 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,720 wouldn't satisfy the really serious collector. 202 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,600 The damp, salty sea cliffs of Devon concealed the much sought-after 203 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:17,680 sea spleenwort. It drove fern obsessives to extraordinary lengths. 204 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,440 One young fern hunter describes taking a 15 foot bamboo pole 205 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:30,000 and tying a knife on the end, trying to gather her sea spleenwort. 206 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,720 Cutting-edge technology. 207 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,840 Locals took advantage of collectors, telling them it was too dangerous 208 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:41,000 to scale cliffs, but for a fee they'd do it for them. 209 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,560 'So it is I find myself clambering over the rocks at Lee Bay 210 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,640 'with a lad to carry my ladder. 211 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:52,120 'And botanist Maxine Putnam is my expert sea spleenwort spotter.' 212 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:55,800 You do need sharp eyes, don't you? 213 00:14:55,800 --> 00:15:00,760 So we're looking for a tiny little fern somewhere in the spray zone. 214 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:04,240 There's some hart's tongue in the corners. 215 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,800 Is this the sort of area we should be looking? 216 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,920 This is the sort of place where the bracken grows well. It's drier. 217 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,400 I think we need to look for somewhere damper 218 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,360 to find the crevices where the sea spleenwort would grow. 219 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:20,600 RUTH LAUGHS 220 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,360 Look, just there, see? Can you see there? Is that something? 221 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:28,560 Come on, you're young and fit. Come on. 222 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:35,960 There's something there, look. Oh! 223 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:40,280 The colour is completely different from the grasses. Yes. 224 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:43,040 It really is, isn't it? Fantastic. 225 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:44,560 Isn't that pretty. 226 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:47,040 That's lovely, look at that. That's a sea spleenwort. 227 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:49,960 There's little bits of it all over actually, there and there. 228 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,320 There's lots of little bits. That is so pretty, 229 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:55,160 it's too pretty to pick it, isn't it? Let's have a look at the back. 230 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:58,280 Yes, it's fertile, look. There are the spores. 231 00:15:58,280 --> 00:15:59,720 They like salt spray? 232 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,240 It does, yes. When the Atlantic gales come in, 233 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,920 the spray zone is probably significant here. Other ferns really 234 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:09,080 can't handle that amount of salt. No, it's the only one. 235 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:16,200 'The success of the lady collectors in stripping the cliffs bare 236 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:20,120 'would ultimately signal the end of their obsession. 237 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:25,360 'As the Victorian era ended, fern-mania began to unravel.' 238 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:32,400 In 1904 it became a crime in certain parts of Devon to uproot 239 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:34,400 or destroy a fern. 240 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:41,520 But it took a cataclysmic event to finally quell fern fever. 241 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,600 The arrival of the First World War distracted collectors 242 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,960 from the fripperies of ferns, 243 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:51,840 and by the time it ended, women and feminism had moved on. 244 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,080 We're walking around the British Isles, 245 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,880 seeking out secret paths to hidden treasures. 246 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:14,000 I'm exploring the most isolated edge of our mainland, Cape Wrath. 247 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:27,160 On this ragged fringe you're free to roam as you see fit, 248 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:29,400 as long as it's on foot. 249 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:37,480 Cape Wrath's name is from the Old Norse for 'turning point'. 250 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:39,600 The Vikings navigated by it. 251 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:46,920 The lighthouse is now home to just two permanent residents, 252 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,840 an intrepid couple eking out a living. 253 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:56,120 How you doing? Are you John? Yeah. How do you do, I'm Nick. 254 00:17:56,120 --> 00:17:58,560 Very nice to meet you. Did you have a nice walk? 255 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:02,600 Yeah, well I'm just completely gobsmacked because I remember this 256 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:06,920 as a solitary lighthouse, but to find a real cafe operating 257 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,880 in what must be the remote headland in Britain is a... 258 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,040 Yes, it's quite well patronised for the tourists 259 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:13,480 cos they're quite glad to see it. 260 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,200 NICK LAUGHS 'I bet they are!' It can get quite harsh out here. 261 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:20,120 Can we have a look outside and around the cafe? Yeah! 262 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:24,920 Surprisingly, this far-flung spot had a brief brush with fame. 263 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:29,120 It started when John's wife Kay went for supplies. 264 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:30,960 But the weather closed in. 265 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,200 The nearest supermarket is 130 miles away. 266 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:34,640 130 miles! 267 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:36,360 Inverness for a major supermarket. 268 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:39,360 A couple of Christmases ago, Kay was off to the get the Christmas 269 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:42,400 shopping and couldn't get back for five weeks. She got stranded. 270 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,000 Five weeks! Stranded in Durness. 271 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,480 It made all the papers, things like this. That's hilarious. 272 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:50,000 "I popped out to buy a turkey on December 19, 273 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,480 and I've still not got home." HE LAUGHS 274 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:53,840 You were on your own suddenly? 275 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,600 Yeah. It's OK, we've got army rations and stuff put by, 276 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,200 so we can last for months up here without contact. 277 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,760 So you had a Christmas on army rations? Yeah. 278 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:06,120 I'm especially pleased to meet John 279 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:08,640 because we share a family connection. 280 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:10,120 My dad. 281 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:11,840 Dad, who's in his 80s, 282 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:16,200 met John recently on his own Cape Wrath expedition. 283 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,720 He told me all about it. Yes, it was nice to see him. 284 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:21,400 Just after Christmas and a blizzard kind of came in. 285 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:25,000 He said he was looking around in one of your outhouses 286 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,200 for somewhere to lie down and go to sleep, and you found him doing it. 287 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,960 Yeah, fished him out and brought him in. 288 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,680 Still talks about it. Yeah, glad he does. 289 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:38,520 My dad brought me here in 1972 when I was 18. It was a vicious January 290 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:42,480 day, the lighthouse keepers had seen us from a long way off, and they met 291 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:43,920 us at the door with mugs of tea. 292 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,440 It's stayed in my memory ever since. That's quite surreal. 293 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,720 It's a very special place, really special place. 294 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:56,640 This rugged coast is a real favourite in our family. 295 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,680 Knowing its moods with daylight fading, 296 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:04,680 I'm grateful for John's offer of shelter. 297 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:08,360 Like father, like son, I'm bedding down. 298 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:11,120 Basic, but very welcome. 299 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,520 Scotland is a dream location for those, 300 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,320 like me, who love the extremes on our edge. 301 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:31,480 Hill walkers are happiest on undulating mountain paths. 302 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:36,680 Secret routes reward tired legs with sea views to treasure. 303 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:47,400 And coastal pathways curtsey over splendid highs and lows, 304 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:52,440 whose rise and fall meet their man-made match in Blackpool. 305 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,920 SCREAMING 306 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,920 A coastal path wrought from a ribbon of steel. 307 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,920 Peaks and troughs engineered for terror. 308 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:14,040 Helen Arney is a physicist. She hopes her physics expertise 309 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:18,600 will unpick the secrets of this twisting track. 310 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:19,920 The Big One. 311 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:21,920 I'm here to discover the science 312 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,120 that puts the thrill into the funfair. 313 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,960 The path around Britain's tallest roller coaster 314 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,880 takes just 90 heart-stopping seconds. 315 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:38,280 Every moment is managed precisely to create the maximum thrill. 316 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:42,440 'Before I experience the ride I'm walking the track with engineer 317 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,520 'Alex Payne to discover the crafty tricks of science 318 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,880 'the designers have in store for me..' 319 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:53,000 Tell me what you do to engineer fear into every part of this ride. 320 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,360 Physics, psychology and physiology. 321 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:57,880 So we play around with all those three things 322 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,040 to give you the best ride experience you can get. 323 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,360 For instance we have the anti-rollback system 324 00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:04,240 to prevent the train from rolling back. 325 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,680 We could just leave it as a nice, quiet safety device, 326 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,720 but why should we? You're on here for the best part of a minute. 327 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,840 We can make it go bang, bang in the background, 328 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,280 Making you think, what am I doing on here? 329 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,320 HELEN LAUGHS So shall we head up? 330 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:20,040 You can. I don't do heights. I'll head down, you enjoy your walk. 331 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,960 I'll let you know what it's like at the top. OK, see you later. See you. 332 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,040 With every step your heart beats faster, 333 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:31,760 but there's more to it than that. 334 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,000 You can feel the wind whipping past you, 335 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:40,640 you can feel the salt spray and smell the sea air as you climb. 336 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,360 Finally, when you reach the top all you can think is 337 00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:48,440 "Wow, that is some drop." 338 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,520 PEOPLE SCREAMING 339 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:57,720 So this is the fastest part of the track, 340 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,720 you're doing 85mph at this point. 341 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,640 You've accelerated from 0-60 in 2.7 seconds. You don't experience 342 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:04,960 that very often in life. 343 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,040 And so what does that acceleration do to you at this point in the ride? 344 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,280 Down here you're pulling 4G, that's four times your own body weight, 345 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,760 that's over a quarter of a tonne just for you. 346 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,080 I will feel the weight of a baby hippo. 347 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,600 That's right, but in other areas of the ride where we go over 348 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,440 the crest of a hill, then we'll be getting down to zero G, 349 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,160 even negative G. That's when you're actually lighter than air. 350 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,680 Those are the bits where your stomach feels like it's 351 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:27,920 trying to leave your body. 352 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,680 That's right, you feel light headed. 353 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:31,960 You've accelerated one way and then the other. 354 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,320 Alex, that is far too close for comfort. 355 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,720 It's another psychological trick we can play on people. 356 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,440 They come around the last bend, don't expect to see a tunnel, 357 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,560 they see a dark tunnel, it looks really small, 358 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,760 never going to fit through that. Of course you will, there's loads of room. 359 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,960 So that's your secret, you use the reflex reaction to duck and hide 360 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:55,760 and get an extra bit of adrenaline. 361 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,920 That's it, we're playing with the mind again. I love it. 362 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,440 Any scientist worth her salt must put theory into practice. 363 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,400 So, my carriage awaits. 364 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,960 I should probably put these away. I don't want to lose anything 365 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,880 on this ride, apart from the contents of my stomach. 366 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:19,760 So, whoo, this bit is not too bad... 367 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,840 That's probably because the ride hasn't started yet. 368 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:28,720 I can hear the ratchets, it feels a lot more dangerous than it is. 369 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,400 And I can just about see the numbers clocking up, 370 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:36,000 we're going past 100 feet. Now the noise is starting to make me 371 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,320 even more nervous, it really feels like something is about to happen. 372 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:44,280 I can smell the sea, and we're nearly at the top. This is 200... 373 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,240 I know the physics I trust the physics, 374 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,400 but I am still completely terrified... 375 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:51,800 Argh, I can see the sea! 376 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,240 SHE SCREAMS 377 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,600 Wow... That was... 378 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,800 That was 4G and that was my baby hippo moment, 379 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,120 and now that is my stomach. 380 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:05,200 I think I've just left that somewhere back there. 381 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:11,160 Argh! Wow, that was a big jerk, and I feel I'm being knocked from side 382 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:16,560 to side. All right, now that is too close, that shouldn't... 383 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,280 not be there... 384 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,200 Whoo! And that's a little bit... 385 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,800 Wow, I think maybe next time I come to Blackpool... 386 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,600 I might just take a little stroll along the beach. 387 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,000 SHE LAUGHS 388 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:46,000 Some coastal paths constrain you to a cast iron route, 389 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,520 but I prefer to pave my own trail. 390 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:58,520 That's why I've come to the wild north of Scotland, Cape Wrath. 391 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:04,880 On this rugged edge, this routine of life is radically different. 392 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,440 Well, that's the first time I've slept on the floor 393 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,000 of a lighthouse but I'm very excited, 394 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,240 ahead is one of the most exciting coast walks in Britain. 395 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,160 'I've got to keep the pace up. 396 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,440 'It's a punishing hike over strength-sapping peat bog. 397 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:28,000 'I'm beating a path to Sandwood Bay, but before I savour that sandy 398 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,520 'treasure, there's some unfinished business I just can't resist.' 399 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,080 I want to complete the journey of a hero of mine. 400 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,640 'He was the first to map the Scottish Highlands 401 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,960 'over 400 years ago. His name? 402 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:48,800 'Timothy Pont. I've brought an example of his amazing work.' 403 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,760 When you place Pont's 16th century maps on top of the modern 404 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:59,560 Ordnance Survey map, you realise how accurate his work was. 405 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,240 Look at this, he's marked "Faro Head" here, 406 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,640 and underneath on the modern map is Faraid Head. 407 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,760 He's got the place called Sandwatt here and Sandwatt Beg. 408 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,960 Well, that's Sandwood, the place that I'm heading towards, 409 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,720 the treasure on the coast of north-west Scotland. 410 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:21,200 But there's a missing link. Pont didn't map Cape Wrath itself, 411 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:26,360 and I wonder whether the reason is this label, "Extreme wilderness". 412 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:31,240 And then underneath, "Bhellachmaddy - Woolf's Way." 413 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,960 Maybe it was just too wild and too dangerous. 414 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,080 Now I'm going to make my own sketch map of Cape Wrath 415 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,600 using the same techniques that Pont did and finish his work. 416 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:05,320 'This is the perfect vantage point. I can see for miles. 417 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,480 'For my sketch map I'll mark the key features, like Kervaig Bay. 418 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,360 'But every peninsula has two sides. 419 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:26,720 'To capture the Cape's other coast, I've got to hoof it over land. 420 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,640 'Looks like I'm walking into trouble.' 421 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:37,200 I set off in beautiful clear weather, looking for a vantage point 422 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,080 that I could use to sketch the coast south from Cape Wrath towards 423 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,520 Sandwood, but then the mist came out of nowhere 424 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,480 and has completely smothered the view. 425 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,040 What would Pont had done? 426 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,440 It must have happened to him all the time. 427 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,080 I'm hoping it's going to clear, but a bit of a problem just now. 428 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,400 Well, partial success. 429 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,400 I've got a really good view from this vantage point southwards. 430 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,880 But in the other direction, the sea mist is sitting right on top of the 431 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,680 Cape, so maybe it was the weather that kept Cape Wrath off Pont's map. 432 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:36,000 The Scottish shore doesn't give up its treasures easily, but commerce 433 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:42,040 will pay the price to prise out the mineral wealth of the Western Isles. 434 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:46,720 And coastal walkers can owe gratitude to coastal workers. 435 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:55,240 Industry has forged many new routes. Quarrymen don't only cut 436 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:59,680 into the ground, they cut along it to create new roads. 437 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:03,960 When works are abandoned, 438 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,600 those tracks are taken over by walkers. 439 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,600 Such secret paths to hidden treasure 440 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,720 can still be discovered on the Scottish coast. 441 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,840 A treasure map from an old quarry points to the isle of Iona. 442 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,440 A group of gemstone collectors 443 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,640 hunting for precious green marble 444 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,800 are led by Adam McIntosh. 445 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,360 All right, here, I've got a geological map of Iona, 446 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:40,000 and it's very interesting because it shows us how rare green marble is. 447 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,840 We've got all the rock formations here, 448 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,680 and if I zoom in, X marks the spot, 449 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,280 this little blue patch shows us exactly where it is. 450 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:08,440 Being a gemstone trader is an unusual career path. 451 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,760 But Adam and his team are following in the wake of quarrymen 452 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,200 who first made this trip some 200 years ago. 453 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,920 This is the marble quarry on the southeast shore of Iona. 454 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,400 Yeah, quite an eerie feeling being in here 455 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,160 because it is so quiet and peaceful. 456 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,160 So, I've got this old picture 457 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,760 taken when the mine was in action over 100 years ago. 458 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:40,080 And this crane was known as a derrick in the trade. 459 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,040 And they'd be lifting these blocks of marble out into the puffer boats 460 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,600 sitting out there in the water and taking them off to far-off lands. 461 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,560 I've got a lot of compassion for the boys that worked in this mine. 462 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,440 It would have been very long hours and very hard work. 463 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,680 And part of my compassion is also due to the fact 464 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,000 that I'm also looking for marble, 465 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,520 and I need that for my business and for me to survive. 466 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,720 And this mine here is now a historic monument. 467 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,320 You cannot take any marble from this mine, 468 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,760 and no marble from any other source from Iona. 469 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,400 But we've got a different plan. 470 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,360 Adam's bright idea must wait until sunrise 471 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,640 when the tides are in his favour. 472 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,000 Iona's landscape is protected, 473 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,360 but the seam of green marble runs out under the sea. 474 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,320 Adam's hunt for the precious stone will take him offshore. 475 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:42,200 You nervous about tomorrow, Rich? No. 476 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,120 Are you confident we'll find stuff? 477 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,160 I think, yeah, there's a good chance, aye. 478 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,080 Looking forward to it, man. Yeah. 479 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,040 To find the submerged path to hidden treasure 480 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:57,800 you need to hold your breath. 481 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,520 Both me and Richard love free-diving. 482 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,400 It's not just a good way to get a feed 483 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,320 of scallops and mussels and prawns, 484 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,840 but it's a good way to find Scottish green marble. 485 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:24,880 It's freezing! 486 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,520 On my left here we have the old marble quarry, 487 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:38,000 and the seam of marble supposedly runs under the ocean here, 488 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,760 so we're going to follow the path of the green marble 489 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:42,880 and hope we find some nice gemstones. 490 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,160 Ahey! 491 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,920 Bingo! 492 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,000 Lovely big chunk of Scottish green marble. 493 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,240 Maybe they struck the mother lode 494 00:34:16,240 --> 00:34:19,080 but they won't know the quality until they head back 495 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:20,520 and open up the rock. 496 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,840 Moment of truth, man. Well, it really is 497 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,040 because when you've got all this seaweed and algae growing on it 498 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,760 you just don't know what's inside. 499 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,040 Shall we put it on and have a go? Go for it, nice. 500 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,320 There we go. There we go. Moment of truth. 501 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,040 Ah! Oooh, beauty. There you go. 502 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,000 Absolutely... Like strips of green bacon. 503 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,480 RICHARD LAUGHS Dude, that is gorgeous. 504 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,920 Wicked. Absolutely gorgeous. 505 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,640 The marble is from limestone that's been metamorphisized. 506 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,040 This green pigment here is serpentine. 507 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,000 It's from ancient seaweeds. 508 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,680 And what's happened is the chlorophyll from that seaweed, 509 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,840 the green pigment, has rotted away and settled on the sea bed 510 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:17,160 with this white limestone, and formed into this mixture. 511 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,960 This is about 2,800 million years old... Wow. 512 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,760 ..give or take a decade or two but, for sure, it's stunning. 513 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,360 That's going to make some beautiful jewellery. 514 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,680 We're searching for hidden treasures on shoreline tracks. 515 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:41,440 In Cardiff you can join the coast path that's the wonder of Wales. 516 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:03,600 When the Welsh created a continuous path around their entire coastline, 517 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,480 it was a world's first. 518 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,600 And even when the sea blocks the way at Barmouth 519 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,520 they walk across the rail bridge. 520 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,360 There's 870 miles to tread, 521 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:13,800 but some still prefer a precarious path of their own making. 522 00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:20,160 One such route lies on the edge of Anglesey. 523 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,960 The cliffs of Gogarth are not for the faint-hearted 524 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:35,000 but Andy Torbet is about to savour a climber's treasure. 525 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,200 I do enjoy making life a little bit tougher for myself. 526 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,440 And over that edge is a secret path 527 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,680 that's haunted my imagination for years. 528 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,280 Only seasoned climbers know 529 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,280 that below is a seemingly-impossible route, 530 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,040 hidden from view. 531 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,440 A route made famous by this fabled photograph. 532 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,520 It captures a classic moment in climbing history. 533 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,120 It's a moment of great drama - 534 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,320 a new path being put up on the cliff face. 535 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,080 The photo, with the wave leaping upwards 536 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,960 as if to claim the two tiny figures, 537 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,040 earned the climb classic status. 538 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:18,400 The climbers are Dave Pearce and Ed Drummond, 539 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:24,120 young upstarts who, in 1968, dared to brave the unknown. 540 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,160 Some said it couldn't be done, but they made it to the top, 541 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,320 and because of that they got to name this climb, 542 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,040 and they christened it A Dream Of White Horses, 543 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,840 in honour of the white-crested crashing waves 544 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,200 that beat the cliff beneath them. 545 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,960 'I've dreamt of the Dream Of White Horses for years now. 546 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,120 'Steve Long will be leading our attempt. 547 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,640 'What have I let myself in for?' 548 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,080 Let's sit down and have a look. 549 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:53,400 What do you think? 550 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,640 It's a pretty intimidating bit of rock. It's amazing, isn't it? 551 00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,200 So, what happens if I come off? 552 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,040 You've got big problems because you're just hanging above the sea. 553 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:06,960 'Time to get on with it.' 554 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,840 And I'm wearing a head cam, 555 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,600 which means you get to see what I see. 556 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,160 Scary, isn't it? 557 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,640 This big bubbling cauldron of white water at the bottom 558 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,280 just adds to the atmosphere. 559 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,120 That's the rope down, that's us completely committed, 560 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,320 and the only way out now is that way. 561 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,040 The first pitch is the hardest. 562 00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,680 Hand and footholds are rare and small, 563 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:52,000 route finding is hard. 564 00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:00,520 And just when I need to concentrate we've got an audience, 565 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,960 a man who knows the secrets of the Dream of White Horses route 566 00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:05,720 better than most. 567 00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:10,800 Leo Dickinson took the famous photo of the original ascent back in 1968. 568 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,520 As I was wandering down these cliffs here, 569 00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,200 I suddenly had this feeling that something extraordinary 570 00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:18,560 was going to happen. 571 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:24,640 And I sat more or less here, and with a camera with a 28mm lens 572 00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,320 I looked over my shoulder, 573 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,560 and suddenly, this great white wave seemed to go up. 574 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,560 It seemed to last for seconds, it probably didn't. 575 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,440 And I just took a picture. 576 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,480 It was a one-chance shot. 577 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,920 For Leo, this was the start of a successful career 578 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,320 as an adventure photographer 579 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,800 which took him all around the world, 580 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,880 but no picture's been as influential 581 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:48,880 as the one on the Gogarth cliffs. 582 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:55,440 Leo's primed to recapture his momentous photograph, and so are we. 583 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:59,200 Right now, Andy is on one of the most exposed bits of rock 584 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,120 in Britain, so he's probably thinking, 585 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:02,680 what on earth am I doing here? 586 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,480 I've made it over pitch one. 587 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:16,560 Now, for the second, where the path's supposedly easier to follow. 588 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,840 That's not how it looks to me. 589 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:22,360 I still can't see an obvious easy line out. 590 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,960 I know, and that's the great thing about this route, you know, 591 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:26,640 the more committed you get, 592 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,760 the more you start to wish you hadn't. 593 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:36,320 Steve forges ahead using a natural fault line in the cliff face. 594 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,640 Left alone here, this place is starting to play on my mind. 595 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,320 You can see why the climb gets its name, 596 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,800 that thunderous roar and wave beneath me, 597 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,280 it makes it more exposed, more intimidating, more scary. 598 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,640 I've no idea how Ed Drummond and Dave Pearce 599 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,280 navigated this blind for the very first time. 600 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,120 After Ed and Dave had gone across this great traverse, 601 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,280 they were quite tense because they really didn't know 602 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:19,720 what they were getting into, 603 00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:22,480 and the sting in the tail is towards the end. 604 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,760 And it's that sting in the tail that I'm heading for now. 605 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,000 Dream's final pitch is not as technically difficult 606 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,640 as some of the earlier climbing but it's far more intimidating. 607 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,200 Can't see where you're going. 608 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:40,520 Oh, yes. 609 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:43,840 The path is hard to find, 610 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,120 but it takes you to a place like no other... 611 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:52,080 ..a terrifying overhang suspended 60m over the ocean. 612 00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:04,320 Then, as you wrestle with the route, 613 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:08,280 suddenly, A Dream Of White Horses releases you. 614 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:15,680 Oh, ho-ho! Nice, put it there. Well done. That's superb. Brilliant. 615 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:19,840 To prove our dream was real, 616 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:24,640 has Leo captured a picture to compare with his original 1968 shot? 617 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,720 Hi, guys. Did you enjoy it? 618 00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:29,000 Awesome. Yeah? 619 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,920 I've been trying hard to emulate that picture I took, 620 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,840 I don't think I've improved on it. 621 00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,240 We didn't have the magical moment today. 622 00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:39,320 Well, Leo might not think it's up to scratch 623 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,080 but I'll never forget this day. 624 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,800 That makes this photograph even more special for me. 625 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,920 Andy's not the only one out on a limb. 626 00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:02,120 We're seeking out our stunning shoreline paths. 627 00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:13,480 I'm on the edge for Britain's wildest coastal walk 628 00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:14,840 at Cape Wrath. 629 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,720 My path's taking me to the glorious beach at Sandwood Bay, 630 00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:23,960 but right now there's a peat bog in my way. 631 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,480 And that's not all. 632 00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:33,680 It's quite dramatic, the great chasm blocking the route 633 00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:35,600 south along the coast. 634 00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,520 I'm not sure I'm going to get across this. 635 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:42,240 That's, uh...that's pretty vertical there. 636 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:44,800 It's never a good idea to down-climb a cliff 637 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,400 with a backpack on your back, and no rope, 638 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,560 so I'm looking for a way down that's less steep. 639 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,600 The thing is, what you have to do is follow the river upstream 640 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,800 until you find a less steep bit. 641 00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,000 Now, that might do. 642 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:00,240 Let's have a look. 643 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,120 The going's tough. 644 00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:13,720 It's clear I'm not going to make it to Sandwood Bay tonight. 645 00:45:13,720 --> 00:45:15,600 I need to find shelter. 646 00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:26,240 In the wild Cape Wrath the only option for a roof over your head 647 00:45:26,240 --> 00:45:29,560 is to make for one of the isolated bothies. 648 00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:33,240 Today the bothies are left open for walkers, 649 00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:36,520 but originally, they were built for shepherds, 650 00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:41,120 and, until 20 years ago, this bothie had a remarkable resident. 651 00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:46,840 This was the home of the man known as The Hermit Of The Highlands, 652 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,320 James McRory Smith, 653 00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,720 who lived here for 30 years totally alone. 654 00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,960 Wow, this is really, really cosy. 655 00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,520 It's a wild, windy evening out there, 656 00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,440 and it's completely still in here. 657 00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,120 And here's a picture of James. 658 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,920 That's a very kindly face in the photograph, 659 00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:14,680 quite weather-beaten. 660 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,840 And this was his sanctuary, his little den. 661 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:22,240 Look over here, there's a Viking longship sailing out of the sea. 662 00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:25,360 Perhaps, more interesting, are the things you can't see here. 663 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:28,440 There are no electrical sockets, there are no lights, 664 00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:30,680 there's not even a lavatory in here, 665 00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:33,920 or running water - you have to use the river outside. 666 00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,200 It's a stone shell that James turned into a home. 667 00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,640 There's parts of me that would quite like to, uh, 668 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:44,160 spend a while living here, find out what it's like, 669 00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:47,440 not like James, not for 30 years, that's pretty extreme, 670 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,240 but I wouldn't mind trying a year maybe. 671 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,640 'Unfortunately, I've only got one night, 672 00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:56,760 'so I'd best try and make myself at home.' 673 00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:09,200 Over the years, James captured the imagination of the press. 674 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,600 He became something of a local celebrity. 675 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:16,520 The people who met James came away with a much more intimate, 676 00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:20,520 touching picture of this man who lived alone. 677 00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:24,520 Here's an angler who called by in the 1970s. 678 00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:26,520 He says, "Despite his isolation 679 00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,680 "he seemed to be remarkably well informed 680 00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:30,800 "on what was happening in the outside world. 681 00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,080 "He said he'd read a lot. 682 00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,160 "I asked him how he got hold of all the books and magazines, 683 00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,960 "and he said, 'Most were left by visitors, all were read.' 684 00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:42,120 "Some he read again, others ended up on the fire." 685 00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:48,320 I don't think James was a hermit at all, he relished solitude 686 00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:51,680 but he also enjoyed the company of his fellow human beings. 687 00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:59,040 Tomorrow, my coastal treasure awaits at the end of the path. 688 00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:02,720 Tonight, though, there's time to think of those 689 00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:04,800 who've tramped this way before me. 690 00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:14,400 Our rich past encourages walkers to take in the history 691 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:15,880 around our isles. 692 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,440 But imagine one short coastal path 693 00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:33,480 that could encompass the whole timeline of our past. 694 00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:38,840 Surprisingly, such a secret path can be found - 695 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:40,320 on little Lundy. 696 00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,640 Mark is taking an epic trail on a tiny scale. 697 00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:52,560 Lundy Island, a wilderness where nature thrives. 698 00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:59,240 Most people come to Lundy to admire the marine life and the wildlife, 699 00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:05,080 but to me as an archaeologist, the real treasure lies beneath the soil. 700 00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:08,360 I'm going to take you on a ten-mile coastal walk 701 00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:11,040 that's going to take 10,000 years to complete. 702 00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:16,560 Bizarrely, in this single shed there's evidence of many 703 00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:20,600 waves of people who've tried to make Lundy home. 704 00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:25,000 Objects stretching back millennia. 705 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,560 This is a kind of Aladdin's cave of treasures. 706 00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,520 Horseshoe, gaming piece, 707 00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,000 and that could be medieval actually. 708 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,160 Clay pipe fragments there, 709 00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:40,200 a rotary quern stone that's probably Roman actually... 710 00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:41,560 Ooh, gosh it's heavy. 711 00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:43,640 Oh, look, look, here's the archaeology. 712 00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,600 Some flints, worked pebbles, 713 00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,880 8,000-10,000 years old, something like that. 714 00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,240 Bits of old granite, look at it. 715 00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:56,200 HE CHUCKLES 716 00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:58,840 Why is there a propeller here? 717 00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:03,200 This treasure can take me back in time. 718 00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:08,840 I'm plotting a secret path linking where the objects were discovered. 719 00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:15,480 These random artefacts can help me tell the story of mankind, 720 00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:17,320 my journey around the island. 721 00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:24,400 My path across Lundy will take me on a hike 722 00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,840 through 10,000 years of history, 723 00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,440 beginning in the Stone Age. 724 00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:32,720 This is it, 725 00:50:32,720 --> 00:50:36,200 where all those Mesolithic and Neolithic flints were found. 726 00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:42,920 Remarkably, these fields concealed Stone Age secrets. 727 00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:48,200 The earliest folk on Lundy fashioned flint into cutting tools. 728 00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:56,000 This is an extraordinary microlith, crude from basically beach pebbles. 729 00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,080 It's fantastic to see where they were actually found. 730 00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,960 A piece of pottery in the attic provides a clue 731 00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:07,560 to more advanced technology. 732 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,160 We're now in search of the Bronze Age. 733 00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,760 This is it. Isn't that amazing? 734 00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,360 This is a little Bronze Age hut. 735 00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,600 You can see the stone walls round on there, both sides. 736 00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,440 It probably would have had a turf roof on top of us here 737 00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:29,760 supported by a central post, 738 00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:33,400 and there's a doorway, a room with a view, if you like. 739 00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:40,320 Even hardy Bronze Age settlers may only have been seasonal visitors. 740 00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,680 Harsh winters forcing them back to the mainland. 741 00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:50,040 I'm leaving the exposed north, heading south 742 00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:54,800 fast-forwarding 2,000 years into civilisation... 743 00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:56,920 ..the Romans! 744 00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:05,840 In the attic was a Roman quern stone used to grind grain for bread. 745 00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,640 Somewhere here our quern stone was found 746 00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:15,640 in the middle of what's probably a Celtic monastery. 747 00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:21,400 Around AD 500, the monks were probably using the grindstone 748 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,800 the Romans had left behind. 749 00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:26,120 Nothing goes to waste on Lundy. 750 00:52:29,240 --> 00:52:35,000 My time traveller's path now takes me to the 13th century and beyond. 751 00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:41,120 The castle was commissioned in 1243 by Henry III, 752 00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:45,600 it was re-fortified successively until the 18th century. 753 00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,440 However, excavations here in the parade ground 754 00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:50,280 revealed lots of objects 755 00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:54,480 including our gaming board and its counter, 756 00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:58,840 and this clay tobacco pipe from the Civil War. 757 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:06,240 Heading up the island's east coast, I march onwards in time. 758 00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:12,160 Granite in the attic leads me on a path of short-lived folly. 759 00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:17,720 The year is 1863, and we've reached the Industrial Revolution. 760 00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:20,800 The Lundy Granite Company 761 00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:24,520 reckoned they had 50 million tonnes of the stuff. 762 00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:28,520 This is what the Victorian quarry must have looked like at its heyday. 763 00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:37,000 But the management focused more on boozing than quarrying. 764 00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:44,560 Just five years after starting up, the works fell silent. 765 00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:58,400 Film cans in the attic are my clue 766 00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,680 to the man who would be King Of Lundy. 767 00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:07,720 I've reached the 20th century and film footage of islanders. 768 00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,640 I'm meeting Derek Green, the manager of Lundy. 769 00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:16,000 Hello, good to see you. Hello. These are the films? 770 00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:17,280 They are indeed. Fantastic. 771 00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:19,080 Shall we go and have a look? Yes, please. 772 00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:25,440 The footage shows a man destined to become boss of the whole place. 773 00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:30,320 Not Derek but this chap, Martin Coles Harman. 774 00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,840 He bought the island in 1925 after visiting as a young lad. 775 00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:35,440 And that's him? And that's him. 776 00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:39,080 In his hat. The press called him The King Of Lundy. 777 00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:42,120 Well, they did indeed, that was a media term that was used, 778 00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:45,080 uh, but I don't think he ever denied it very much. 779 00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:49,840 Lundy's "King" even tried to take on the British monarchy. 780 00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:53,720 In 1929 he dismissed the Post Office from the island, 781 00:54:53,720 --> 00:54:55,920 and it was because he hated authority. Yes. 782 00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,160 And he introduced his own stamps. 783 00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:01,640 The currency is in puffins. One puffin is worth one penny. 784 00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:05,640 He also introduced coins because he wanted his own currency. 785 00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:06,920 Puffin on one side? 786 00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,360 Yeah, and interestingly, on the other side... 787 00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,160 There he is. There he is. 788 00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:18,280 Under Harman's reign, the island finally started to thrive. 789 00:55:19,240 --> 00:55:22,720 Children were born, marriages celebrated, 790 00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:28,720 and Harman introduced exotic animals like peacocks and wallabies. 791 00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:34,560 Harman succeeded in creating his own kingdom. 792 00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,560 The outside world would come crashing in. 793 00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:41,240 Remember that propeller in the attic? 794 00:55:41,240 --> 00:55:45,040 But of everything we've seen, this is my favourite bit of Lundy. 795 00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,160 It's a frozen moment in time. 796 00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:52,960 In 1941, on the 3rd of March, a German Heinkel bomber 797 00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:57,440 returning from the Irish Sea crash-landed at this spot. 798 00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:01,240 And what we've got is the molten aluminium from the fuselage, 799 00:56:01,240 --> 00:56:02,480 the engine block. 800 00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:05,160 And what's incredible is that nobody has actually 801 00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:06,440 picked up the pieces. 802 00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:08,680 They're still here 70 years later. 803 00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:19,760 Martin Harman, the so-called King Of Lundy, died in 1954. 804 00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,880 Now, he rests in the land he loved. 805 00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:33,440 As for Lundy, in 1969 the National Trust took it over, 806 00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:35,800 preserving its treasures for all. 807 00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,160 Little Lundy's precious artefacts 808 00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,800 are a permanent reminder of our island story. 809 00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:51,200 What's incredible is that it's all encapsulated 810 00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:52,800 on this tiny little island. 811 00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:04,360 My own little treasure awaits at the end of my secret path 812 00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:06,280 on the northwest tip of Scotland. 813 00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:11,840 I've just caught sight of the great sea stack, 814 00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:15,200 the column of rock that marks the southern end of Sandwood Bay, 815 00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:17,960 the coastal treasure that I'm heading towards. 816 00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:21,040 It's just across this vast expanse of bog and rock. 817 00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:42,200 I told you it was a treasure. 818 00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:10,440 This corner of our island is as close as you can get 819 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,680 to wilderness in mainland Britain. 820 00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:18,200 And, for me, the jewel on this section of the coast is this place, 821 00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:19,440 Sandwood Bay. 822 00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:23,560 But there's something here you won't find anywhere else. 823 00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:27,000 It's to do with the long walk you have to take to get here - 824 00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,360 it's the beauty of solitude.