Training for Kilimanjaro in Cheshire

Ramblings

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🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Clare joins a group of friends as they climb Shutlingsloe as part of their preparation for the much bigger adventure of trekking up Kilimanjaro later this year. Known as the 'Matterhorn of the Peak District' Shutlingsloe is around 500 metres high, where Kilimanjaro is closer to 6000 metres, but it's not a bad training ground with its steep incline as well as the reward of beautiful views from the top.

Leading the group is former Royal Engineer, Sean Milner, who has arranged the Kilimanjaro trek for his adventurer father, Frank Milner, who plans to reach the summit on his 82nd birthday. Although unable to join the Ramblings hike, also going up Kilimanjaro will be two of Frank's grandsons, making it a three generation event.

The starting grid reference for today's walk is SJ 952 715 which is just by the Leather's Smithy pub in Langley, about 15 mins drive from Macclesfield.

Producer: Karen Gregor

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,
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0:40.6	I think today's quite chilly,
0:42.7	but three of the group that I'm walking with are in shorts,
0:45.6	so I'm just clearly feeling the cold a bit more than they are.
0:48.7	I have joined a group who are planning a trek to Kilimanjaro,
0:53.3	and this is part of their training regime,
0:56.4	because today we're going to climb the Matterhorn of the Peak District.
1:01.8	We had a letter from Sean, Sean Milner, and Sean got in touch to say,
1:06.5	we're going to do this trek with my dad, Frank.
1:09.1	And how old will you be when you climb Kilimanjaro?
1:12.5	I'll be on the summit on my 82nd birthday.
1:15.4	So this has been planned to celebrate your birthday?
1:17.6	Yes.
1:18.4	I didn't tell the family I was doing it until eventually I had to tell them.
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