BBC Scotland set to hit new heights with HD live climb

BBC Scotland set to hit new heights with daring live climb in HD

A breathtaking live ascent in one of the most spectacular and challenging climbing locations in Britain will be filmed in high definition, in an ambitious BBC Scotland broadcast this summer.

Two of the most prestigious figures from the climbing world will be filmed scaling Sron Uladail on the Isle of Harris – renowned as one of the toughest rock faces in the world.

Dave Macleod and Tim Emmett will tackle the daunting overhanging crag in one of the largest outside broadcasts to be mounted in the Outer Hebrides.

The dramatic ascent will be transmitted on Saturday 28 August on the BBC HD Channel and BBC Two Scotland, for six hours.

The HD broadcast of a live rock climb will be a world first, using the latest cutting-edge OB technology. The programme is being produced for BBC Scotland by Triple Echo, who are hugely experienced at working in remote and sensitive habitats.


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Shame that us without HD won't get to see it in England, or even a summary. I'd love to watch that.

It'll be on iPlayer though won't it?

.........yes.
Thank you kindly.

what do you mean, it's a bbc scotland production to be shown nationwide surely?

It's only going to be shown nationally on BBC HD. If people have Sky, they could watch it on BBC Two Scotland wherever they are but if not it'll have to be iPlayer.

Presumably it might appear on Red Button as well?

BBC Wales produces Doctor Who; we produce someone climbing up a rock, River City and a whole channel of gibberish in a language 0.01% of the country can understand. Brilliant.

Ooh, yeh, BBC Wales produce (after the network gave them it) 13, maybe 14 episodes of one drama. Yippee.

And last time I checked, not EVERYONE watches, or even likes, Doctor Who.

And Merlin, Life on Mars, Ashes for Ashes, Being Human, Torchwood.....

Similar to the above, or worse I'm afraid. Shows the network has given them to make (or in the case of most, Independent producers given to make, Wales to oversee) rather than stuff they have themselves commissioned.

And how much of Ashes to Ashes is filmed in Wales?? If you include that, then Waterloo Road is most certainly a 'BBC Scotland production'.