Mountain (TV series)
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Presented by | Griff Rhys Jones |
| Composer(s) | Malcolm Lindsay |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 5 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Richard Klein Andrea Miller Hamish Barbour |
| Producer(s) | Ian MacMillan |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
BBC Scotland IWC Media Ltd. |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format | SD: 576i (16:9) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 29 July – 26 August 2007 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Rivers with Griff Rhys Jones (2009) |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Mountain is a British television series written and presented by Griff Rhys Jones that was originally broadcast 29 July–26 August 2007 on BBC One.
The five programmes follow Rhys Jones as he traverses the mountains of Great Britain, from Wales to the Northern Highlands of Scotland. He also looks at the effect mountains have on the people who live near them, and vice versa. The series is an IWC Media production for BBC Scotland.
Part of themed season by the BBC entitled 'Ultimate Outdoors', Mountain was produced by Ian MacMillan; the executive producers were Richard Klein and Andrea Miller (for the BBC), and Hamish Barbour (for IWC Media). The music was composed by Malcolm Lindsay.
When Griff Rhys Jones was invited to make the series, he was a mountaineering novice:
"Ten years ago I trudged up [Italian volcano] Stromboli in a hard hat; and seem to recall once taking a long walk in the Borders (it was hilly). But in the Suffolk/Essex pancake where I live, the highest visible phenomena grow from seeds. I'd never really seen the point of mountains at all."
The producers convinced him that part of the series' attraction would be his apparent lack of climbing skills. When Rhys Jones enquired what would happen if he couldn't master them, he was told, "That's good television."
However, when filming was complete, the presenter could "hardly credit" all that he had accomplished. During the course of the series, Rhys Jones had built a snow hole, climbed Ben Hope in blizzard conditions (guided by series consultant and mountaineer Cameron McNeish), and scaled (among others) Napes Needle and Catbells in the Lake District, Suilven, Scafell, Tryfan, Cairn Gorm and Schiehallion. He had ascended a total of fifteen British mountains, some of them multiple times for the benefit of the cameras. His intention was to discover how the upland ranges that cover a third of Great Britain shaped its inhabitants, their culture and their history. Rhys Jones was assisted by experts on each particular region, together with mountain safety advisors, who were on hand throughout the making of the series.
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