The Adventure Show - Season 11
Season 11
Episodes
The Kintyre Way Ultra
The Adventure Show returns for a new series with a visit to the rugged Kintyre Peninsula to join athletes in one of Scotland's most scenic races - the Kintyre Way Ultra. With no less than 1,300 metres of ascent and over 35 miles of rough terrain, this is a tough challenge for every runner.
Also on the programme, we'll be meeting an inspiring athlete who is proving that living with epilepsy doesn't prevent you from achieving sporting success at the highest level.
UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
Fort William is once again resounding to the sound of cheering crowds and crunching gears as the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup returns to Scotland. And there's no shortage of action, from the fast and brutal 4X, to the downhill. One on Scotland's up-and-coming young riders take us on an exhilarating ride down one of the longest and toughest courses on the World Cup circuit.
Also in this month's programme, we get the inside story on why a professor of public health medicine and a police officer are planning to run from one side of Scotland to the other.
Adventure Show Super Cup
The team take to the stunning white water of the River Tay, at Grandtully near Aberfeldy, the home of Scottish paddling. This year the racing is bigger and better than ever before because we're here for the inaugural Adventure Show Super Cup, with Olympic gold medallist Tim Baillie, from Aberdeen, giving an expert's view on the action.
Also, Deziree Wilson discovers Scotland's most select running club, and we catch up with endurance athlete Katie Ford to see if she can create a new cycling record whilst living with epilepsy. And Cameron McNeish is back with a wild walk in Highland Perthshire.
Celtman Extreme Scottish Triathlon
This month the Adventure Show is in Torridon for the Celtman Extreme Scottish Triathlon. And extreme is the word - starting with a 3,000-metre, open-water swim that's followed by 202 kilometres of biking. Thefinale is a 42-kilometre run through some of the most demanding mountain terrain in Scotland. Added to that, this year the high winds and driving rain make a race that is arguably the toughest of its kind anywhere in the world even tougher. For most just finishing is a major achievement.
The Artemis Great Kindrochit Quadrathlon
The Adventure Show joins 300 competitors from all over the UK for nearly 60 miles of racing in the majestic landscape of Highland Perthshire. There's a chilly swim across Loch Tay, a 15-mile run over 7 Munros,seven miles of kayaking and to finish an epic day there is a 34-mile bike ride. Adventure racing doesn't get much tougher than this.
Roads Less Travelled - The Heart of Scotland: Part 1
Scotland's best known outdoors man, Cameron McNeish, is celebrating the heart of Scotland. Travelling on foot, by bike, by pack-raft and with his beloved campervan, his journey takes him over 300 miles throughsome of our most impressive wild places.
Roads Less Travelled - The Heart of Scotland: Part 2
In the second part of his journey round the Heart of Scotland, Cameron McNeish celebrates what he says is Scotland's 'world class landscape'. From the Falls of Bruar, he heads south east to the magnificentAngus Glens before turning north to Deeside. Finally, to complete a wonderful circle he
tramps across the wild Cromdale Hills.
The Strathpuffer 24
This month's Adventure Show sees a record 1,000 competitors head north of Inverness in the middle of winter, with 17 hours of darkness, for one of the world's toughest mountain bike races - the Strathpuffer 24.With deep snow, brilliant sunshine and bitterly cold temperatures, this year it has been dubbed the 'Perfect Puffer', with many riders saying it is the best ever.
Take a Hike
It's an important part of our social history and is embedded inthe Scottish psyche. And, as Cameron discovers, its something that attracts all kinds of people - from outdoor veterans such as trail-hardened Chris Townsend, who are out for months at a time, to Sam Heughan, star of the cult television series Outlander.
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Forged in Fire
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Revival
Revival is set on one miraculous day in rural Wisconsin when the recently deceased suddenly rise from their graves. But this is no zombie story as the "revived" appear and act just like they once were. When local Officer and single mother Dana Cypress is unexpectedly thrown into the center of a brutal murder mystery of her own, she's left to make sense of the chaos amidst a town gripped by fear and confusion where everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect.
The Wanted Man
The Wanted Man charts the rise and fall of Felix Carmichael, the elusive and powerful head of notorious British crime syndicate ‘The Capital.' Untouchable for twenty years, Carmichael is finally apprehended, but while he's held in the infamous Staplehurst prison, it becomes clear that he's been betrayed by one of his own. As the traitor moves to dismantle the empire he has built, Carmichael must risk everything in a daring escape. Willing to stop at nothing to take his revenge, if he succeeds, he'll be a wanted man once more.