Into Portpatrick on the Rhins of Galloway

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Clare joins two friends on what could possibly be the slowest walk between Land's End and John O'Groats. Hiking one week at a time (with a gap of several years when the Welsh coastline wasn't fully navigable) it's taken Iain McHenry and David Rowe 18 years to reach the coast of Dumfries and Galloway. That's where Clare joins them, on a beautifully sunny day, as they approach the village of Portpatrick on the remote Rhins of Galloway.

This is the first of two episodes recorded in the area: next week Margaret Hughes and Peter Ross take Clare on a section of the Southern Upland Way, starting in Portpatrick and heading north.

Producer: Karen Gregor Presenter: Clare Balding

Transcript

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0:00.0	Eleven climbers appeared to have died on the world's second highest mountain K2.
0:06.0	It was one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history.
0:10.0	Rock falls, avalanches.
0:11.0	Huge pieces of ice. All are big enough to kill you.
0:14.0	He just flew out into Devoid and he was gone.
0:17.0	How did it all go so wrong?
0:19.0	And is it really worth risking death to feel alive? Why would
0:23.2	somebody pay to go to a place called the death cell on a vacation? Extreme, peak danger. With me,
0:29.9	Natalia Melman Petrazella. Listen to the full series now. First on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:40.5	The people of Britain are currently being lightly grilled by a heat wave,
0:45.8	and yet here, on the west coast of Dumfrey, St Galloway,
0:49.4	as a lady on her sit on Moa finishes off the meadow in front of her cottage,
0:56.8	and the waves lap in there is a breeze a refreshing breeze coming across the north channel this is always a place i have wanted to visit
1:03.0	and the main reason i wanted to come to port patrick which will be the where we're walking to
1:08.8	is that i want to see the sunset in one of the most
1:12.6	westerly points of the
1:14.7	country and on this
1:16.5	extraordinary Hammerhead
1:18.0	Peninsula and I would really
1:20.3	if you like maps and I love maps
1:22.6	have a look at
1:24.3	this area of the country
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