Gethin Jones

The Adventurer's Guide to Britain

22/11/2011

In a new series, action-man Gethin Jones and naturalist Charlotte Uhlenbroek uncover a side of the British outdoors that only the adventurous will ever see.

Gethin and Charlotte will explore different areas of Britain. In each episode their mission will be to seek out, to discover and experience the most inaccessible, unexplored and unknown sights, sounds and heritage of the UK and to capture their splendour on camera.

 On the first episode of the series Gethin and Charlotte journey above and below Britain's oldest national park, The Peak District, better to understand the forces that have shaped it’s amazing landscape.

 On day one of their two-day adventure in the district described as nature's adventure playground, Gethin takes to the skies in a microlight, soaring over the radically different landscapes at 2,000 ft, witnessing the staggering effect the ages have had on its dramatic terrain.

 “If you’re flying away for a holiday or something and you’re in a commercial plane you’ve really only got a view to your right or to your left, out here its 360 degrees and on a day like today it’s just breathtaking, absolutely magnificent,” enthuses Gethin.

 Meanwhile, Charlotte sets off in the opposite direction – 300 ft underground! Guided by experienced caver, Nigel Atkins, a nervous but excited Charlotte begins her descent into Giant's Hole, part of Derbyshire's longest cave system.

“I’m not really sure I want to go in there, it seems a bit unnatural to disappear into a black hole in the ground – still I suppose there’s a bit of excitement about heading off into the unknown,” says Charlotte.

Relatively unexplored and hidden away under fields, Giant's Hole leads to a honeycomb of tunnels and cathedral-like caverns dug out of limestone by the waters of the Ice Age. 

Watch tonight at 7:30pm on ITV1

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