Interestingly the route they are climbing is a classic route on Castleton Tower in Utah. LLion and I got thunder stormed off it a couple of years back. The whole programme is on Inside the Human Body: Building the Brain. I will have to iPlayer it, as I am heading out for a climb and a beer in the revamped Hieghts Hotel, which is under new management. Will blog on that as well later!

The programme is on BBC 1 at 9pm, the link above has a great preview of the climb.

The Explore programme was a different perspective on the ‘Travel Show’, no fake tan or the usual suspects flouncing around on a beach, just a few apparently well seasoned travellers taking you on some of the must see and do things of South America, I particularly liked the football match as it was a little ‘intense’, however they also take a look at the natural side of the countries like the glaciers and mountains.

I thought it was an excellent little programme, well worth catching if your about, if not then get on the BBC I-player. Similarly High Altitude has some potential to offer the ‘extreme’. This week it was failing to get up Mount Blanc and Sky Diving out of a helicopter down the North Face of the Eiger!

If I am honest, I am not sure where this programme will go or what it was going to say about anything, other than letting Graeme Bell former downhill skier and a series of famous co-presenters a well paid extreme trip to some place or another. Considering the dearth of this type of programme, it is still probably worth catching on I-player at the very least.