Countryfile: 23/09/2012
23 September 2012
Countryfile
The team are in Lochaber in the west of the Scottish Highlands. Matt Baker goes on a steam train ride, described as the greatest railway journey in the world. Julia Bradbury finds out more about the female Victorian mountaineering pioneers who changed the face of climbing for women for ever.
Tom Heap investigates how we get our children to rediscover the great outdoors. Jules Hudson takes to a kayak to discover the wildlife that thrives on the west coast of Scotland and Adam Henson is back in Switzerland, having herded more than a thousand black nosed sheep down from the Alps, he's now taking part in the festival which celebrates their safe arrival in the local village.
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