“It is already being heralded as the most significant live broadcast of a climb since Joe Brown & Chris Bonington were filmed climbing the Old Man of Hoy in the 1960’s.”
Its probably been one of the only live outside broadcast of climbing since then! A pure genius quote I thought, i guess one mans meat is another mans poison!.
There is some great background on the live broadcast on the BBC Scotland site – of particular note is the mention of the unenvironmental practice used in the Hoy Broadcast. If you visit the island, you can still see the line up which the BBC dragged tonnes of equipment up the hillside onto the plateaux. Mind you nowadays, all you probably need is a rucsac full of equipment rather than a barn full.
There was of course the other Dave Mac OB from 2008, that was postponed due to weather, so not sure if that counts. Anyway I am being distracted from packing!
The dynamic duo of Tim Emmet and Dave Mac, will be appearing at the Big Rock Climbing Centre in Milton Keynes on the 18th September, as part of the opening events. So if you can navigate your way through the world of roundabout, concrete cows and the biggest Tesco’s on Earth then you’ll be laughing as they be able to help you navigate you way up through the grades, as well as leave your jaw on the floor if you watch Tim’s Para-Alpinism show, because if climbing an alpine wall isn’t risky enough he then throws himself off the top of them.
I spoke to one of the route setter there last night and the wall sounds awesome, and opens today I think? Visit here (Bigrockclimbing.com) to find out more, about a wall that is a partnership between some local Milton Keynes Climbers and the owners of the Llanberis based Beacon Climbing Centre (imagine that commute!!). I can just see Steve and Gill playing paper, scissor, stone to see who has to head down there to cash up at the end of the week!