Landward filming stint comes to an end

My fledging career as a guest TV presenter with Landward has taken me to some pretty stunning places over the past couple of weeks but sadly, filming has now finished for my wee bit. We had an absolutely amazing day on Lochnagar (stream the strand here) which I actually managed to watch all the way through without having to cover my eyes and/or ears.

Doing my piece to camera on Suilven

Last week we had an extremely soggy day on the Cobbler where we had to bail at the Narnain boulders as the camera was about to give up the ghost due to getting soaked by that penetrating, fine rain that just permeates everything. We then jumped straight in the car and headed straight up to Suilven in the North West. As we arrived in the dark, when we stepped out the door in the morning to see this hill I couldn’t help but laugh out loud, what a funny shaped wee hill!

The lunar landscape of the North West Highlands

The path was straight up the side into the saddle on the ridge. It was that straight-up that David the cameraman got vertigo on the path and almost didn’t make it to the ridge, and couldn’t go any further once we got there. I’m sure he won’t mind me telling y’all that…We were running out of time anyway, as our lift back would have been arriving at the foot of the path shortly.

Suilven

Adam and his Argo Cat (with quarry)

We actually cheated on the hefty walk-in that morning and cadged a lift in off of some stalkers on the estate in their Argo-Cat. I did wonder how they were going to get the deer and us back if they shot anything that day, as we pretty much took up all of the back on the way out between the three of us and the camera kit. My query was answered when they came to pick us up with a hind in the back – just pile in on top. It was a bit of a squeeze. To say the least. I feel I’ve come a long way in the past 7 months, coming from working in a department store in the city every day, to bouncing around in the back of a mini-tank on a deid deer in the northern highlands. Quite a different office!

Awesome.