Tree to Tree Trekking

Ramblings

BBC

Science, Nature, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Martin Hügi is taking an unconventional approach to his long distance hike from Land's End to John O’Groats. He’s planned the route so he can visit as many ancient and veteran trees as possible. It’s a busman’s holiday as his day job is with the Woodland Trust and it's their Ancient Tree Inventory, created in collaboration with the Ancient Tree Forum and the Tree Register, that he’s using to guide him.

He’s taken a four month sabbatical from work and Clare is joining him in the early stages of his trek near Marlborough in Wiltshire.

Producer: Karen Gregor

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0:45.1	Oh, that's a lovely one, isn't it? Oh, look at that.
0:46.6	How tall is that?
0:48.2	I would say that's actually probably about 25 metres, so there are trees that are bigger than that in this woodland.
0:54.6	Some of the beaches possibly going up to 35 metres yeah that's got some dominance isn't it
0:59.4	it really has do you get a buzz around certain trees do you really feel that
1:05.4	connection yeah yeah definitely and that's one of the things that I'm really
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