Posted By CFT
In this posters opinion, one of the finest examples of documentary making seen on TV; I refer of course to the deep sea diving in the North Sea and the amazing safety procedures utilised throughout, as seen on BBC1 Sunday evening with a continuing theme throughout the week.

CFT

Posted By Robert K Lewis
CFT

Alternatively real men climb on the rail;s of scissor lifts to see if they can fly! :-)

Bob

Posted By Graham Bullough
There was a safety message in last night's episode on BBC1 of "Mountains" with Griff Rhys Jones. Part of it showed him walking up to the North face of Ben Nevis with an experienced female climber intending to do an ice climb up one of its gullies. However, she took the decision to abandon the climb and explained that the air temperature was too high so they faced a significant risk of being hit by falling snow and ice if not an avalanche. The footage of them going up to the face showed them going over and commenting on big chunks of recently fallen snow. Nobody mentioned the words "making and heeding a dynamic risk assessment" but this is what was portrayed. In reality, others would have been at risk, namely the unseen film crew, so no doubt others including specialist advisers were involved. Even so, the overall message was that conditions were not right, it was not essential to do the climb and therefore it was prudent to leave it until another time. The programme showed Jones later going back to the North Face. As the snow had gone, he instead enjoyed ascending a "scramble" route led by another expert mountaineer. However, it's possible that this ascent may have been filmed before the attempted ice climb.