0:00:14 > 0:00:18I'm in the tiny hamlet of Camastianavaig on the east coast of the Isle of Skye.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21Today, I'm going to do something I've never done before.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24I'm going to climb a hill for the Adventure Show on which
0:00:24 > 0:00:27I have never ever set foot in my life before.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29If you don't mind giving me just a few moments,
0:00:29 > 0:00:31I have to check the map just to find out
0:00:31 > 0:00:35how I get from here through the houses onto the hill itself.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Aha! That's a good clue.
0:00:49 > 0:00:55So why am I taking on a walk that I've never done myself?
0:00:55 > 0:00:59Sometimes it's nice to climb a hill, not because it's a Munro
0:00:59 > 0:01:01or a Corbett or on any of the mountain lists,
0:01:01 > 0:01:03but because you simply just fancy it.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06It takes your fancy. This hill - Beinn Tianavaig
0:01:06 > 0:01:09on the east coast of Skye, I've seen it so many times
0:01:09 > 0:01:12and I've always thought, "I must climb that wee hill one day."
0:01:16 > 0:01:17Wow, that's steep.
0:01:20 > 0:01:24Beinn Tianavaig is part of a long basalt escarpment
0:01:24 > 0:01:27that rises beyond the tip of the Trotternish Peninsula.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30It follows the peninsula right down past Portree
0:01:30 > 0:01:32and goes right down to the shores
0:01:32 > 0:01:34of Loch Sligachan in the south.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38The slopes rise fairly gently up from the west, get to a peak,
0:01:38 > 0:01:42then fall precipitously right down here into the Sound of Raasay.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45It means, when you do this walk, you can follow this cliff line
0:01:45 > 0:01:49all the way up to the summit and it's very, very dramatic.
0:01:56 > 0:02:00Beinn Tianavaig is only 1,355ft.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06It's pretty miniscule in terms of the mountains here on Skye.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10If you took this hill and you put it on, say, in the Lake District,
0:02:10 > 0:02:14then I bet there'd be dozens and dozens of people on it every day.
0:02:14 > 0:02:19The Braes was the locality for what some people would say
0:02:19 > 0:02:21was the last battle on British soil.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23That took place in 1882.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27There had been longstanding disputes with crofters over grazing rights
0:02:27 > 0:02:33and the landowner became frustrated and brought 50 policemen north
0:02:33 > 0:02:38from the City of Glasgow police force to try to sort out these disputes.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42What occurred was a raging battle with crofters on one side
0:02:42 > 0:02:46with sticks and stones and the policemen on the other with their truncheons.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48Five men were arrested and taken to Inverness
0:02:48 > 0:02:51and a number of people were injured.
0:02:51 > 0:02:56Really, the outcome of that battle was a public inquiry
0:02:56 > 0:02:58called for by Prime Minister Gladstone.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02The result of that was a document called the Napier Report
0:03:02 > 0:03:06which really more or less defined crofting as we know if today.
0:03:21 > 0:03:22Beinn Tianavaig will be familiar
0:03:22 > 0:03:24to most people as the big mountain
0:03:24 > 0:03:28that dominates the south side of Portree Bay.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32Indeed, you can see Portree and the bay from the summit on a clear day.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36You can look right down almost into the town.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Portree used to be called Kiltraglen
0:03:39 > 0:03:45but the name was changed in 1540 after a visit by King James V.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49The town and the bay were re-named
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Port-an-Righ which is the "port of royalty"
0:03:51 > 0:03:53or the "port of the kings".
0:03:56 > 0:03:59Looks like the summit just ahead.
0:03:59 > 0:04:00At last!
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Well, here we are.
0:04:11 > 0:04:131,355ft above sea level
0:04:13 > 0:04:17and this mountain seems almost twice that height.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20On a day like this when it's misty and cloudy, you can't see very much,
0:04:20 > 0:04:24there's false summit after false summit
0:04:24 > 0:04:26and you never think you're getting to the top.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30I was mighty relieved to see this old trig point
0:04:30 > 0:04:31on the actual summit.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34I wish I could tell you a wee bit about the views, but I can't see very much.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Trotternish is that way.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40I know that and the Cuillins down that way. Rasaay is behind me.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Other than that, I can't see too much today.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46But for the moment, we're up here in the cloud
0:04:46 > 0:04:49and there is a silver lining to this particular cloud.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51It means that I'm going to have to come back
0:04:51 > 0:04:56and climb this hill again on a good day so I can get the views.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59Not that I need an excuse to some and climb a hill for a second time,
0:04:59 > 0:05:01but that's as good as excuse as any.
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