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Mountains and Men

Taking a break from the Home Truths chair a couple of weeks ago, John Peel went to Aviemore to help make a film for a new mountaineering museum to be opened in the Lake District later this year ...

Celebrated mountaineers - on the left Chris Bonnington, on the right George Band, who climbed Everest in 1953, and centre stage, John Peel

Basecamp near Aviemore

For those of you who contacted us last week concerned that John's expedition into the country might be spreading Foot and Mouth, the promised 'half-way up a mountain' basecamp turned out to be approximately twenty-five yards from a car park, and the disinfectant routines were as thorough as they were frequent.

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