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In 1995, actor Hugh Grant went up a hill but came down a mountain.

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Today, it's the turn of this Welshman to go one better

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and go up two hills and come down two mountains.

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Are you ready?

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DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS

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DRAMATIC THUD

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SWOOSHING

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In this programme, we have a tale of two mountains

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and two great walks at opposite ends of the country

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both easy to get to, with stunning views, fresh air

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and a healthy dollop of exercise.

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Coming up will be a walk in the Welsh capital's backyard,

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up Garth Mountain, made famous in the film that tells a tale

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of how the locals increased the height of their hill

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so that it could be officially called a mountain.

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But our first walk is up north on Anglesey

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along a cliff-top path overlooking spectacular craggy cliffs

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and the wide expanse of the Irish Sea,

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and up another hill that is in fact a mountain, Holyhead Mountain.

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That big harbour wall over there, the Holyhead Breakwater,

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is more than two kilometres in length

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making it the longest in Europe.

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It was built from rock taken from the side of that mountain over there,

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Holyhead Mountain, which is where our walk takes us today.

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Up it and around it and I need a guide to help show me the way.

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As path officer, Rosie Frankland is in charge

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of the 125 miles of Anglesey's coastal trail.

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# Oh, Rosie... #

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In her spare time, Rosie enjoys a bit of paddling.

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Not the sort that involves dipping your toes in shallow water,

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but paddling a sea kayak.

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And one of her favourite places to do it is right here

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around the rocky inlets of Anglesey's north-west coast.

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KAZOO PLAYS

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-Hello, Rosie.

-Good morning, Derek.

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'I've arranged to meet Rosie here at the Breakwater Country Park

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'which is where our circular walk begins today.'

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So here we are, sort of on an island, off an island, off an island,

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at the north-west tip of Anglesey's Holy Island.

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Our walk starts a short distance from the busy port of Holyhead,

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taking the coastal path to North Stack,

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then a short, steep climb to the summit of Holyhead Mountain,

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and on to South Stack and Ellin's Tower

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before returning around the mountain

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to our starting point at the Breakwater Country Park,

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a five-mile circuit with sea views in every direction.

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-So what's this place then?

-Well, Derek, this is the Breakwater Country Park.

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Now a very peaceful setting but once a hive of industry.

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It's one of many quarries around Holyhead Mountain

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that was used to basically excavate rock

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to build the Holyhead Breakwater.

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Around 1,300 men were employed to build the breakwater.

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A massive project which took nearly 30 years to build

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by the time it was finished in 1876.

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-So this is part of the Anglesey coastal path?

-It is, yeah.

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It's part of the 125-mile coastal path.

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-And how much are we doing today?

-About four miles.

-I can manage that.

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This is a fairly new section of the coastal path.

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-When was it built?

-About six or seven years ago.

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We had some European funding to improve the coastal path

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so all this stone was put down to make a durable surface.

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There's North Stack, that's where we're heading.

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It's an old foghorn station.

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-I used to be frightened of foghorns when I was a boy.

-Did you?

-Yeah.

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FOGHORN SOUNDS

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Not any more though.

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Everybody's heard of the world-famous Pembrokeshire Coast Path

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but this path around Anglesey has equally impressive sea cliff scenery and wildlife

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together with beautiful unspoilt rocky coves and sandy beaches.

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What's this building ahead of us?

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It's an old ammunition store for the quarry. A magazine.

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It might be 50 miles shorter than the Pembrokeshire path,

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but this would be a great long-distance trail to get started on,

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especially in the spring when the wild flowers are out.

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So tell me a bit more about your job, Rosie.

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What do you like about it the most?

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Oh, I guess being outdoors is my favourite part.

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Just having this as my office.

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-I get to walk the whole 125 miles every year.

-Keeps you busy then?

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It does keep me busy, yeah.

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We've estimated that there's over 300,000 people using the coastal path every year

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and it really helps support the local economy.

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-People come and stay and eat on the island.

-Spend a bit of money?

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Yeah, which is important.

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I think that reinforces why the coastal path is here.

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The sea looks a bit rough, doesn't it?

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-Wouldn't want to be swimming out there.

-No.

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Away from the world, you might say on the very edge of the world,

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the old foghorn keeper's house at North Stack

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has been a home and secluded retreat for artist Philippa Jacobs

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for the past 20 years.

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You can only get to it by foot or along a rough vehicle track,

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so you have to be a very committed and self-sufficient type

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to live in a place like this.

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-Philippa.

-Hello.

-Lovely to meet you.

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-Lovely to meet you too, thank you for coming.

-Thanks for inviting us.

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-How was the walk?

-Lovely, so far.

-Good.

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-I'm looking forward to the rest of it.

-Good.

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-This is a fantastic place to live.

-It is.

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-A little bit remote but lovely.

-It's not that remote, really.

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-Not for me anyway.

-What makes you live in a place like this?

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Because I'm a painter and I need this kind of atmosphere

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and the solitude and I need the isolation, to think.

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It's lovely today but what's it like in a force 12?

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Well, I'm lucky sometimes not to lose windows.

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I do lose windows occasionally

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cos the gusts can be about 100mph here.

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But this winter I was OK!

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This used to be an old foghorn station.

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Yes, it did. It went off for the last time in 1986.

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It's been here for about 150 years.

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-Can we take a close look at the view?

-Yes, do. Yes.

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The walk down to the end of the promontory

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is what the guidebooks call "airy",

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but it's really worth it for the views along the cliffs.

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-So we can see South Stack over there? South Stack Lighthouse.

-South Stack Lighthouse.

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-And what's this behind us here?

-This is Parliament House Cave.

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Why's it called that?

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Well, because the foghouse people used to think that with the guillemots

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making a racket on those ledges over there,

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it sounded like the chattering MPs in Parliament

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so they called it Parliament House Cave.

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-All talking a load of nonsense?

-All talking a load of nonsense, yes!

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Leaving Phillipa and North Stack behind,

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the path takes us steeply up towards Holyhead Mountain,

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and just as I'm beginning to huff and puff,

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we bump into a group of charity walkers

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who have many more miles under their belts than we do.

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-Derek the weatherman!

-How are you?

-I'm good, how are you?

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-You said it was going to rain!

-WALKERS LAUGH

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-Yeah, I got it right for once!

-Yay, well done!

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-And there's more sunshine to come tomorrow.

-Oh, excellent.

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Well, I've finished today so that'll be...

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-You can enjoy it, have a rest tomorrow.

-Yes.

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So what are you guys doing up here?

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Right, I'm on my final leg now into Holyhead.

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-I've done a 125-mile trek around Anglesey in five days.

-In five days?

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Yes, for Help For Heroes

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-and also in support of the Royal Irish Regiment from Shropshire.

-Whoo!

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CHEERING

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It's my local regiment. It's just fantastic.

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-Well, congratulations.

-Thank you very much, thank you.

-Well done.

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-Enjoy your walk.

-Ta-dah.

-Bye.

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Looking up towards the summit, there's no doubt in my mind

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that despite being only 220 metres in height, that's well under 1,000 feet,

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this striking lump of heathland

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interspersed with jagged lumps of pale rock

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fully deserves to be called a mountain,

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whether you're going up it or down it.

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What's that sign over there? It says, "Caer y Twr."

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Fortress of the tower.

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This is the site of an Iron Age hill fort

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so over 2,500 years old and there's a huge wall encompassing the summit

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of Holyhead Mountain which is where we're heading for now.

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-So it's quite a size?

-It is, it's pretty impressive.

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It would've been used to keep invaders out all that time ago.

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-Just a few more feet to go.

-Yeah, we're almost there now, Derek.

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-Any chance of a cuppa on the copa?

-I'm sure we can arrange it.

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You might have to hold on tight though,

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it's going to get blown away.

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-Well, we're finally at the top, Rosie.

-Yeah, at last. It's great.

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And just look at the view.

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-What can we see?

-Well, that's Carmel Head over there.

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High point on the island and then you've got

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the mountains of Snowdonia going down to the Llyn Peninsula.

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-Great view of the Port of Holyhead as well.

-Yeah, it is, isn't it?

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You can really appreciate the breakwater from up here.

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We've also got some more remains just over to your right.

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They're the remains of a Roman watchtower and signal station

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that was used in the 4th century to send signals

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back down to the Roman fort in Holyhead.

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-Well, it is a fantastic coastline, Rosie.

-It sure is.

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-We can see Philippa's place over there, North Stack where we were earlier on.

-Yeah.

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And just look at the cliffs with the huge, sheer drops into the sea

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-and the little caves as well.

-You can see just why it's

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so popular with rock climbers, the big cliffs.

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OK, it might look like a just a bleak heathland to you and me,

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but this is, in fact, a Special Area of Conservation

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of international importance,

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and hidden here are some very rare plants.

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Someone who knows where to find them is Dave Bateson, head warden of this RSPB reserve.

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-So what have we got here then?

-Just having a quick look at these spotted rock-rose plants.

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We do a full count of them every year

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and they're quite scarce plants. I'm just checking out

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whether they're in flower or not yet.

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So what makes them grow here?

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They like these exposed places with very shallow, thin soils.

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So this is a top spot for them.

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In fact, this is probably the biggest colony on Anglesey.

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And if it wasn't for Dave, I'd have walked right past them.

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-So this is South Stack lighthouse?

-Yeah, dramatic, isn't it? What a fantastic archetypal lighthouse.

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If you were a little kid and were told to draw a lighthouse, it'd be like that.

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-It would.

-Big lump of rock, white lighthouse on the top.

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-When was it built?

-1874, the current buildings you see there.

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The light tower.

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These days it's fully automated, and operated remotely,

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would you believe, from Harwich in Essex.

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Next stop for us is the RSPB look-out at Ellin's Tower

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for a spot of birdwatching.

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And you don't need binoculars for a close-up view.

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This is amazing. You've got live images of puffins in the centre.

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-It's quite unusual to see such fantastic images.

-Beautiful.

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This is coming from our live camera.

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It's happening right now as we stand here.

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This is the first time I've seen a puffin. I've been to Pembrokeshire, never seen a puffin

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probably cos I've gone at the wrong time of year.

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It's all about when you visit these colonies

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cos the birds are only here to lay the egg and raise the chick.

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They're seabirds, they live on the open water all year round

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so there's no reason for them to be on land.

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When they're here on the land, they're at risk of predation

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so they spend as little time here as possible and then get back out to sea again.

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And what's the best time of year to see puffins?

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-Is it around now, May time?

-May/June is a good time.

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These little nestlings in here are young chough, around two-weeks-old.

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The heathland at South Stack is a special area for chough

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and we kind of have to manage it for them so we look after them quite well.

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Well, it's a great place to come to watch the birds.

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And hopping around outside is the parent bird.

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It might look like an ordinary crow,

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but that red beak is the giveaway.

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This is a chough, a rare birdwatching treat.

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There must be hundreds if not thousands of birds down there.

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Yeah. Fantastic, isn't it? There's about 4,500.

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What have we got apart from seagulls?

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We have guillemots and razorbills, kittiwakes and fulmars.

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And why do the birds decide to nest here, what's special about it?

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It's about geology. The guillemots and razorbills

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are laying a single egg directly onto the rock, not building a nest

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so they need a decent platform upon which to build it.

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Obviously they need to be away from predators as well because that egg's

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very vulnerable to being eaten by rats and stoats and weasels, etc.

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And also, madly enough,

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the chicks from the guillemots jump off the cliff before they can fly

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so it's very important there's water below the ledges.

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It's not just seabirds we have here. We've got some maritime specialists in the plants as well

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so we have thrift and spring squill here in front of us.

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The yellow flower, you can see, it's over the edge of the cliff so don't fall off.

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We have spatulate fleawort which grows nowhere else on earth,

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just on Holy Island.

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-Really?

-Just here, yeah.

-That is really special.

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It is, we're very privileged to looking after these.

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We've got to get back to the Breakwater Country Park.

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-Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

-You're welcome. Nice to see you.

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-A very special place.

-It's fantastic.

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-Cheers, Rosie.

-Cheers.

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So there we are. I think we've proved today that where

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hills and mountains are concerned, size really doesn't matter,

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as long as you've got great views, variety and interesting company.

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If you fancy trying one of the walks from the series,

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go to bbc.co.uk/weathermanwalking

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and take a look at our interactive website.

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It has everything you need, from detailed route information

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for each walk as well as photographs we took along the way,

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and walking maps for you to print off and follow.

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For the next walk in this programme we head to the outskirts of Cardiff,

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for an inspirational day out on another little mountain.

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The good thing about walking is that it offers something for everyone.

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Some days, you might want to get away from it all,

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enjoy some peace and quiet and at other times...

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ALL: Morning!

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You might fancy a livelier day out.

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-# Here come the girls. #

-Hello, ladies.

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-Good morning.

-Group hug!

-Yay!

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Just what I needed. Right, are we ready to go?

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'And these ladies leading me astray today

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'are members of a group called Welsh Women Walking.'

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Our walk starts just north of Cardiff, in the village of Pentyrch.

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Leaving the village,

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we drop down through Coed y Bedw Woodland Reserve,

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to reach the village of Gwaelod y Garth

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before climbing steeply up and along to the summit of Garth Mountain

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and back to the start.

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A 4.5 mile loop up a hill and down a mountain,

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in the company of some lively ladies, led by Jacquie Williams.

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I started a group called Welsh Women Walking

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and we go out on the first Sunday of every month and raise money

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for Ty Hafan whilst we're walking and talking so it's a networking group.

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I bet you do a lot of talking, don't you?

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We are called Welsh Women Talking, that's our nickname

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and we sometimes invite guys along as well, you know,

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and families so we do all types of walking.

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How many members have you got now?

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-We've got about 300 on our database.

-300? Amazing.

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But generally we get up to 30 on a walk.

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And we've raised over £100,000 for Ty Hafan and Breast Cancer Care

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over the last two years.

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-Absolutely fantastic.

-And we have lots of fun doing it.

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So why do you like walking then?

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I find it's really good for mind, body and soul.

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I say, you lose more weight off your brain

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when you're walking than off your body because you feel so great

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when you get back from a decent walk and so for overall well-being,

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it's the best thing. You have scenery, you've got great company,

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you've got the actual fitness of walking up hills.

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Absolutely beats any trip to the gym that I've ever done.

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Couldn't agree more.

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Just coming to a really busy road here so be careful when you cross.

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-Is this a route you've taken before? Is it a regular route of your?

-It is.

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I live in St Fagans so I do this either walking it with my dog,

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we walk it as a group.

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Sometimes I even try and run it and you can see there,

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that's the way we're going so we're going through the woodland,

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up the side of the Garth, across the ridge at the top

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and then back down so that's our day.

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-How long is it?

-It takes about two hours to do the walk.

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Come on, let's get going.

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# Why does it always rain on me?

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# Is it because I lied when I was 17? #

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Despite the rain tipping down, nothing stops these girls

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having a good, old natter and Jan tells me

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how much of a change there's been to her life

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since she joined the group,

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a change that took her to the summit of Kilimanjaro.

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It's a bit of a joke within the group that I was the one

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that used to park closest in Tesco to the store and not walk.

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I started joining in the first walk and that was in Pen y Fan.

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I'd never been to the Brecon Beacons to walk

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and I thought that was quite a challenge at the time.

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-So from Pen y Fan to Kilimanjaro?

-Yes.

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But, you know, when I did Pen y Fan, that was a huge accomplishment

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but what I enjoyed then about the walking was seeing countryside

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I would never have seen before

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and such a social aspect for us as well

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so it's walking, keeping fit, also having a good time.

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-Has it really changed your life?

-It's been a huge impact in my life.

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'Our route now leads us into Coed y Bedw reserve.

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'Besides giving us some shelter from the rain,

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'the woodland has a mix of plants and flowers

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'that almost gives it a lush, tropical feel.

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'Well, if you forget the air temperature!'

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The sun's coming out a bit now. Thankfully!

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'Almost hidden amongst the trees and ferns

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'is a ruined cottage where the local colliery owner once lived.

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'And the information board also tells us

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'of a spooky story of suicide in 1930.'

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"And the ghost haunts the old cottage."

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-Ooh!

-Oooooh!

-Ooh!

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They'll put people off coming here!

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Be very afraid!

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Ghost or no ghost,

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it really is surprising that less than a century ago

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this beautiful woodland was the site of a coal mine.

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Remarkably, the rare plants that have now taken root here

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make it a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

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This woodland is beautiful, and yet it's so close to a busy main road.

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It's a reminder of how close we are to built-up areas and a city.

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-Nice little stream.

-I know, there's lots of them, actually.

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Really nice.

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The Woodland Trust have kindly provided a convenient boardwalk

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that helps us keep our feet dry in the muddiest parts,

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and there's plenty of information boards about the wildlife.

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Amazing in spring, you get all the bluebells through the woods.

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-It's like a complete purple blanket, it's beautiful.

-I bet autumn is nice, as well.

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Stunning, especially once we go up. Really gorgeous.

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-Right, shall we carry on?

-Yeah. Why not?

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Girls, look out for the woodland... Speckled Wood butterfly.

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We're looking.

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# Shine, shine, shine on... #

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-Ooh, a nice bit of sun, here.

-Yeah, I arranged it for us.

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Oh, thanks, Derek! Did you arrange the rain earlier, as well?

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No, that was nothing to do with me, honest!

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# Shine, shine, shine on. #

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As we leave the reserve and enter the atmospheric pine forest,

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Karen tells me how she got involved

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in climbing the highest summit in Africa, all 19,340 feet of it!

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It was my 40th coming up and I wanted to do something for charity,

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I wanted to do something memorable to mark the occasion.

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And you managed to climb Kilimanjaro?

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Yeah, I got up to Stella Point and I did get quite unwell on summit day,

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-as a few of us did.

-Is that because of the altitude?

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It is, yeah. I was feeling fine, to be honest, until then.

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But I just realised I was losing my sight,

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and I just thought my sunglasses had got dusty,

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because there's very light scree once you get off the glacier.

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Very odd. And...

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In the end, the guide came up and took them off

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and I realised it wasn't my sunglasses,

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it was my eyes that were the problem.

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They suggested I went down, but I was really close to Stella Point then.

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You didn't want to turn back?

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No. Not having got that far, and the whole journey we'd been on.

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Leaving the forest, our route takes us through Gwaelod y Garth,

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that's Welsh for bottom of the Garth.

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The village grew around the nearby iron and coal industries.

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Today, the old workers' cottages are convenient homes for commuters to Cardiff.

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We've done the easy bit of the walk, downhill and on the flat.

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Now I'm about to find out whether the Garth is a hill or a mountain.

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Come on!

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One thing's for sure, it feels steep enough to be a mountain,

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whatever those English map-makers decided in the film.

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Some of the women find the group helps them deal with a crisis

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in their lives, like Angie, who suffered a dreadful personal loss.

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I got involved after the death of my son, six-and-a-half years ago.

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I'd gained a lot of weight, wasn't doing any exercise,

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lost all focus in life, really.

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This group came along and they were, at that point,

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looking to climb Kilimanjaro.

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I decided, after being nearly three stone overweight, I could do that.

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At that point, I couldn't even walk to the shops.

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Walking is clearly more than just exercise for the girls.

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It's as much about the support and encouragement

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they gain from each other as it is about keeping trim.

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-I bet you have a good few laughs with the girls?

-Most definitely.

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-I call it my giggle bank.

-Your giggle bank?

-Yeah, giggle bank.

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When you're out and about and having a laugh and joke

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you actually remember these days, and when you're having a bad time,

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you draw one of those memories of the giggle bank.

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# Don't need the sun to shine to make me smile

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# Don't care if it's dark outside because I've got you... #

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-I did say it would brighten up.

-You were right, you see.

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Didn't I, girls, I said it would brighten up.

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-Very good, well done.

-Thank you. I rarely get praise.

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# Don't need the sun to shine to make me smile

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# Don't care if it's dark outside... #

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It's a bit of a pull up here, isn't it?

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You haven't seen the best bit, yet.

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-How far to the top, now?

-Yeah, just round the corner.

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I've heard that said before!

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I suppose all this hard work does have its rewards,

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the views are really starting to open out.

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Are we nearly there yet?

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Come on, Derek, we're nearly there.

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Nice view of Taffs Well down there.

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# Don't need to hitch a ride

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# When I could run a million miles. #

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Thankfully, at last the path flattens out

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at a shoulder of the Garth, to reveal stunning views

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from the Brecon Beacons down the valley of the River Taff,

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all the way to Cardiff and beyond.

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Do you ever tire of this view?

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Why would you ever tire of it?

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You can't believe that this is on your doorstep.

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I think every time you come up,

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you take a little bit more in and see something

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you didn't the last time, so you can't tire of it easily.

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It also changes with the seasons.

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It looks completely different, nearly every time you come up here.

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It's beautiful.

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Beyond the Cardiff City Stadium and Penarth,

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that's Somerset we can see over there,

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and upstream, the Severn Bridge.

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The Millennium Stadium, in the centre of town, really stands out,

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And below our feet, toy-town streets and houses

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in Trefforest and Taffs Well.

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But this is not the summit. This is a kind of false summit,

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because the real summit is over there.

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-Just over there.

-Come on, then.

-Come on, let's go.

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That's where we're heading, known locally as the pimple -

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a mound that makes the hill a mountain at just over 1,000 feet.

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Tell me how you got involved with Welsh Women Walking, then, Jane.

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I got involved because I had breast cancer,

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and I had to have surgery, followed by chemotherapy,

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and I was very poorly after that.

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I decided I wanted to get fit again,

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and strong, and I wanted to get back to a fitness level

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which would prove that I'd beaten cancer, it hadn't beaten me.

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So I decided to set myself a challenge, to climb Kilimanjaro.

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So I trained up for that and got to the top of Kilimanjaro,

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-and shouted from the top, "I beat cancer, it didn't beat me!"

-That's wonderful.

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That was my story, and my training involved

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joining Welsh Women Walking, getting ready for Kili.

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-So..

-Life changing?

-Absolutely.

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I was determined that I wasn't going to be a victim.

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-There is light at the end of the tunnel.

-Absolutely, oh, yeah.

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The pimple might have been built by the locals

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but it was 4,000 years ago.

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It's one of four Bronze Age burial mounds on top of the hill.

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And as we near the summit,

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just to test these girls' fitness, let's have a bit of a sprint finish.

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Come on, you lot, last one to the top of the pimple makes the tea!

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Well, I've had a great day out with the girls

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and it's been a real privilege

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to be an honorary Welsh Woman Walking, just for a day.

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We made it! Derek and his babes have conquered Garth Mountain!

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Cheers Ladies!

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# Sisters are doing it for themselves... #

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