Mountain

Latest Episodes

• Season 1 Episode 5: Wales

  Griff Rhys Jones walks along the UK's highest peaks, beginning in Snowdonia, where he meets a freestyle climber and a man who voluntarily picks up litter left by walkers. The actor and comedian also encounters Welsh mountain ponies, considers how ash deposited by the bereaved is affecting the ecological balance of the area and hears how the RAF rescues people from the mountainside. Part of the Ultimate Outdoors Season

• Season 1 Episode 4: The Pennines

  Griff Rhys Jones traverses the Pennines and discovers how the area played such a key role in Britain's economy during the Industrial Revolution, providing both raw materials and manpower. He reveals how the local workers sought to claim the mountains as their own and meets the ramblers who vigorously defend their right to roam

• Season 1 Episode 3: Central Scotland

  Griff Rhys Jones traverses the peaks of central Scotland and explores how the area was transformed by the Victorians from a wild landscape into a romantic country retreat. He goes dog sledding across the Cairngorm plateau, runs up Ben Nevis with a group preparing for the annual Ben Race and beds down in a snow-hole shelter