Mountain Munch

This episode has been a long time coming. Recorded back in September, I had the absolute delight in chatting to Ollie Hawkley, the man bringing a New Zealand film collection 'The Big Bike Film Night' to Scottish audiences. Since recording this episode The Big Bike Film Night has travelled all over Scotland and has sold out multiple venues. I really hope it returns in 2022 with yet more thought provoking, beautifully shot and diverse biking films.

This episode contains a lot of chat about pies, there's some questionable Gaelic pronunciation and I'm introduced to the idea of number 8 wire thinking... oh and we do actually chat about biking too! Anyway, I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed chatting to Ollie and maybe you'll feel compelled to go for a bike ride afterwards too!

Links below to The Big Bike Film Night in NZ and Scotland:

https://www.bigbikefilmnight.nz/

https://www.ridetreeline.co.uk/

"The grass really is greener" says Nav Bakhsh, co-founder of the walking group Boots and Beards, and he should know! After 40 years of never really spending much time outside, family events made him re-evaluate his lifestyle and he hasn't looked back since. Talking to Nav was incredibly life affirming and his enthusiasm to get everyone outside, not just his community, is a delight to hear. We discuss the history of Boots and Beards, the amazing natural world and how he believes that the outdoors could be a great way of tackling racism. As always we chat adventure snacks and top tips so I hope that you'll be inspired to get outside whatever the weather and soak it all in, it's good stuff! 

If you want to find out more about Boots and Beards and their amazing work they do, you can follow any of the links below and also check out BBC iplayer for their documentary on BBC1 as part of the 'Our Lives' series!

https://www.bootsandbeards.co.uk/home/

https://www.instagram.com/bootsandbeards/

https://www.facebook.com/bootsandbeards/

After the Highland premiere of his new documentary, Small Country, Gregor Sinclair talks to us about the big issues that face the rural communities of the North West of Scotland and how he created a visually stunning film about the connection between those people and the land they call their home. As always adventure snacks are discussed and this time it involves a rather large amount of tea! So why don't you pop the kettle on and have a cuppa whilst you listen in?

Small Country isn't currently available to watch on the internet, but the trailer can be found here: https://vimeo.com/497239005

Or you can see if it's showing on the Screen Machine in a wee town near you: https://www.screenmachine.co.uk/films/small-country-islands-in-film/

If you had just two weeks of annual leave in the middle of a pandemic, how would you spend it? A camping trip to the coast with a few easy days on the hills? Or run 864km from the Scottish Borders up to Cape Wrath? That's what this episode's guest, Matt Girvan did and he made a cracking wee film about it too (which you should definitely watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coReE_X59oY&t=631s ). We chat all about how and why he decided to take on such a physically demanding trip, how his feet held up and most importantly what snack he chooses when out adventuring - it's a gooden!

Matt is also raising money for Water Aid and if you'd like to contribute, click on the link and add a few extra pounds to this amazing charity: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/matt-walks

What do Mongolian eagle hunters, hungry humpback whales in Alaska and the opening sequence of Alien vs Predator all have in common? Keith Partridge filmed them all! This episode we got the chance to speak to Keith as he visited Fort William for a special showing of Touching the Void at the Highland Cinema. You'll get to hear about Keith's amazing cameraman adventures all over the world as well as getting his top tips for any budding adventure film makers, and of course we find out what his go-to adventure snack is! So give it a listen, smirk (or roll your eyes) at the terrible jokes and then a share with your pals!

Keith Partridge, Adventure Camera Man: http://adventurecamera.co.uk/

Episode created in association with the Fort William Mountain Festival: https://mountainfestival.co.uk/ 

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