Amar Latif - President of the Ramblers in North Yorkshire

Ramblings

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Clare and the ‘blind adventurer’ Amar Latif explore a circular route in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire. As the current President of the Ramblers, Amar is keen to promote the message that walking is for absolutely everyone, from all backgrounds and abilities.

He lost most of his vision by the time he was 18 and found it very hard to accept. He began to believe that he wouldn’t be able to continue doing all the things he enjoyed but after spending a year of his university course in Canada, decided that travelling was definitely for him and went onto make a career out of it. He set up ‘TravelEyes’ a company specialising in tourism for blind and sighted people travelling together, including walking trips.

One of his greatest adventures was walking 220 miles from the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua across to the Pacific Ocean, crossing a shark-filled lake and scaling a 5000ft volcano.

Also on the walk are Rayyah McCaul, who is guiding Amar, and Ramblers volunteer and walk leader, Stephen Down.

The Ramblers is a charity with around 100,000 members. Established in 1935, one of their main aims is improving access to the countryside for everyone to enjoy.

Clare met Amar in Toft Gate Lime Kiln car park, at the top of Greenhow Hill, and completed a five mile circular walk.

Presenter: Clare Balding Producer: Karen Gregor

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0:49.4	going to stop there just now we're going to walk past the cold stones cut and then we're
0:54.1	going to cross the road we're going to walk past the Coldstone's Cut and then we're going to cross
0:54.5	the road. We're going to head down towards the lead mines. Passing that, then we're going to cross
1:00.7	over a beck and because it's been raining last night, you know, we might need to get across
1:07.1	somehow, but we'll worry about that when we get there and then we're going to be trekking further down into some fields and then back towards here. And then we're going to
1:16.6	stop at Cold Stones Cut and reach the viewpoint, which is going to be amazing, overlooking the
1:24.3	quarry. Fantastic. And you've had a couple of locals help plan the route.
1:29.2	So who we got here?
1:30.3	Okay, so we've got Theresa and Steve.
1:32.6	Are you still here?
1:33.4	Yeah, we're still in.
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