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