Of nature helped to save his life. Before that, its time for a look at the weather with ben rich. Before that, a happynew year, its time for a look at the weather with ben rich. Hello, its a cold and wintry end to 2020. We have had some sunshine and also some wintry showers. Some of the showers have been bringing snow. Some of the showers have been bringing snow, even to quite low levels in parts of wales and the southwest. This more general area of cloudiness across scotland will be sinking southwards across parts of northern ireland. A mix of rain and snow. Most of the snow over high ground. Slightly less cold air working in with the weather system, very chilly, especially across the south this evening. Overnight, as we end the old year and start the new one, we keep this band of rain, sleet and hill snow moving across parts of north england into wales. Mist and fog will reform. Freezing fog, temperatures as low as minus four or minus five degrees. Quite chilly further north as well, especially inland spots in scotland and northern ireland. Tomorrow, mix of sunny spells and showers. Showers wintry over high ground, especially in northern scotland. All weekend the band of rain and sleet pushes southwards. Quite murky as it pushes south. Another rather cold day, temperatures getting to 3 6 at best. Deeper into the new year, from friday into saturday, High Pressure to the west, low pressure to the east. Quite a familiar setup by now. That brings us northerly wind, not desperately strong but it will bring showers into north and eastern coastal counties, some wintry over high ground. One or two showers in parts of pembrokeshire or cornwall. Sunshine in between but it will be another rather cold day. The chilly theme continues into sunday but by now High Pressure is likely to build to the north of the british isles, lower pressure to the south. The isobars are squeezed together and the wind will pick up, coming from a different direction, east or north east, but it will feel cold as we head through next week. There will be a lot of dry weather around, some spells of sunshine. There is a focus for the next five days. Forecast. There will also be rain at times, some of it could turn wintry with sleet and snow over the hills. Robin was one of the first covid i9 patients into Derriford Hospital. He may be a veteran of 30 expeditions, but surviving coronavirus would prove to be one of Robin Hanbury Tenisons toughest experiences yet. Every day was pretty brutal and we were pretty broken. The doctors called us and said that, actually, hes deteriorating further. His chances of ever recovering have now gone down to about 5 . I opened my eyes, saw the sunshine, saw the flowers, and that was the moment when my life was saved by the healing power of nature. Its a long road back from Something Like that. Essentially, his body was failing. And i think having a goal, something to work towards, is vitally important because it gives you a target to aim for. And that goal can be as trivial or as ambitious as you want it to be. So this has been as big a challenge as any that ive done in my life, to get to the point where i could climb this mountain. I will make it to the top, because i believe everyone should have access to the same thing that saved my life. It must be lovely to have all this old footage of your dad just lying around the house . Its incredible. Weve got reels from pretty much every expedition that hes been on from the late 50s, through tojust a couple of years ago. Everything from the orinoco, the sahara, the siberian steppes and everything in between. And im so lucky to have been travelling with him on a number of those expeditions. So ive been coming down here a lot recently to look through the old footage and its really helped to feel like hes not in hospital at the moment but is still on the farm with us. Its incredible just to see how much hes achieved throughout his life. 84 year old Robin Hanbury Tenison is widely recognised as one of the worlds greatest living explorers. Hes crossed continents by foot, boat. And jeep, leading expeditions of more than 120 scientists into the heart of remote jungles. Ive been here for nearly 12 months now and the expedition has grown enormously since its original conception. What were doing is to examine the rain forest, which is a vital and very little understood environment, probably the richest environment in the world and one which is disappearing with terrifying speed. Robin has chronicled his life of adventure through a series of more than 20 books. His most recent book explores the major threats facing the world today, including pandemics. Robin was one of the first covid i9 patients into Derriford Hospital, having caught the virus whilst skiing prior to the lockdown. 36 hours after he was in hospital, he was heavily sedated and put on a ventilator. So one of the ways that ive been keeping in touch with the family is with a family group chat. My son says he is praying and thinking of him. I cant really read them. Sounds like hes getting the best possible care and lots of attention. You are so brave as well, louella. Robins a tough, old nut. I cant really read. We know hell pull through. Being in first means he has their full attention. Hes in the right place. Stay strong. Sending huge love. Hell pull through. We love him, etc. Yeah, theres lots of wonderful messages from people and hes still deep in the woods, but at least its not worsening. Thats so encouraging. Sleep well. Yeah, just lots of similar sort of messages. Yeah, hell get there. Robin and louellas farm on bodmin moor, one of cornwalls designated areas of outstanding natural beauty, is overlooked by cornwalls highest peak, brown willy. Their shared love of nature drew the couple to the moor over 30 years ago. This is such a special place because we come here often together. Robins travelled all his life to the most wonderful places and, of course, your favourite place has got to be home, in the woods here on ourfarm. And its very comforting and reassuring to visit it and think about being here with him. After two weeks in hospital, robins kidneys fail. He is unconscious. The family can do nothing but wait as robin clings to life. The doctors tell them to begin to come to terms with a life without him. You never know how youre going to react when somebody that you care about is so unbelievably ill and on deaths door. And every day was pretty brutal and we were pretty broken. The doctor says to him, your lungs are filling up with fluid. We have two options. Option one is we leave you and hope that you get better naturally, but the chances are at your age, youre almost certainly going to die if we do that. Option two is, we sedate you, probably for ten days, try and drain your lungs. But at your age, you have about a 20 chance of survival. At this point, the doctors call us and say that, actually, hes deteriorating further. His lungs are still filling with fluid and they want to put a tracheotomy in. Normally, this is a relatively simple procedure, but because of his age, there is a strong chance hell die in surgery. And the doctors want to make it really clear to us that even if he does survive that, his chances of ever recovering have now gone down to about 5 . And even if he does recover, he may well be bedbound, have severe Cognitive Impairment and never be the man that we knew who went into hospital about a month before. And they say that we have some Difficult Conversations ahead of us where we may have to decide whether its even worth continuing with treatment. I believe im alive. You are alive. Youre definitely alive. After five weeks in intensive care, robin was wheeled into Derriford Hospitals healing garden with icu nurse kate tantam by his side. Irememberthe first times he went outside, and you feel fresh air and they see sun and they see flowers, and its like they kind of start to emerge out of. Out of this dream. You could see he was looking at things, thinking, 0h, this is real, this is tangible. I feel safe. And that was a real breakthrough for him in his recovery. My name is Robin Hanbury Tenison. Im an 84 year old explorer and i survived five weeks in intensive care with coronavirus. The moment when i actually woke up and i knew that i was going to live was the moment when i was wheeled out by four nurses in a big bed, with tubes coming out of everywhere, and i arrived in the healing garden theyve got at derriford. I opened my eyes, saw the sunshine, saw the flowers, and that was the moment when my life was saved by the healing power of nature. He may be a veteran of 30 expeditions, but surviving coronavirus would prove to be one of Robin Hanbury Tenisons toughest experiences yet. But here he is leaving hospital to the cheers of the nhs staff who cared for him. During the darkest days of his illness, robins family had been told if he did survive, the impact of the virus would very likely be severe and long lasting. It was quite a shock to be told that i might never walk properly again. Recovery after intensive care is like a marathon. Every step feels hard and feels challenging and its made up of a million different components. So even learning how to swallow again is a big journey. Sitting independentlys a big journey. But robin had a goal unthinkable, perhaps, to those around him, but a goal that drove him through his recovery. Exactly five months from may 3 is october 3. So i decided that on that day, i would climb cornwalls highest mountain, brown willy, and try and raise £100,000 towards a garden at treliske, cornwalls hospital, because i think every hospital in the country should have a healing garden in it, and lets start with cornwall. It was exciting to have him home, but it was also quite nerve racking as well. We were in lockdown for two weeks once he got home, so no one came near us. And thats quite scary. Im not a nurse and i didnt know whether i was going to have to do major nursing or not. He was very thin and had lost about a stone and a half, so we had a lot of work to get him back on his feet again. He could hardly walk a few yards when he got home on a zimmer frame. It just takes a bossy woman and a certain amount of threats and hed do what i had told him. So we borrowed a mobility scooter, we borrowed an exercise bike, and weve done a lot of exercises and short walks. Itsjust been really amazing watching his strength come back, his muscle come back. He was very thin and very bag of bones when he got home. He gets very breathless still, and even though his lungs are clear, im not sure that anyone quite gets back to where they were before theyve had a really horrible illness, but hes fantastic and hes a strong and determined man and hes worked hard. What robin, and indeed any other patient who is having to fight off this infection at the outset, is having to do is that they are quite literally climbing a mountain, when it comes to the impact that this infection is having on the lungs, on the oxygen content of their blood and the overall impact physically of this infection. Everybody has to have a goal when theyre rehabilitating and when theyre recovering. The journey that robin is going through at the moment, in terms of his recovery following on from an infection like this, is going to be no different to the journey that many patients across the country, and indeed across the world, are going to be making at the moment. So were ecstatic to have him home and its wonderful to see him getting stronger and stronger every day as he trains every day for this feat that hes taken on. But the weathers getting worse and hes a lot weaker than he was before, and were quite worried that he might have bitten off a bit more than he can chew. My wife louella has been marvellous at encouraging me to do my exercises. And now that ive pretty well done my physio, were concentrating on walking a longer distance every day. Throughout his life, robin has set himself tough challenges. For his 80th birthday, he ran his first marathon. But one of the achievements he is most proud of is survival international, the charity he established over 50 years ago after meeting vulnerable indigenous communities across the world. The organisation now fights for the rights of these once voiceless people. Archive anywhere in the world where a new dam, a high speed road or a vast Mining Operation is planned, and the blueprints covered land occupied for centuries by tribal people, then commerce comes before conscience and the indians are swept aside in the name of progress. Survival international exists to temper that race for progress with patience and understanding. His friend and contemporary, sir ranulph fiennes, is proud of what he has achieved. In my opinion, robin is one of the greatest explorers alive today. And his legacy includes so much he has done for vital conservation and for human rights. In addition to the sheer volume of his great adventures, his uniquely far reaching successes for various forms of conservation includes sterling work for the preservation of threatened rainforests. I am truly proud to have known my friend robin down the long years and i seize this opportunity to thank him for all his great works. Its the day of the climb. Robin and the family are getting themselves ready for the journey from their home to the base of the highest point in cornwall, 1,378 feet above sea level. Get these boots on. Absolutely, what a weather forecast. Its going to be quite a day. The ascent to the top of brown willy is a seven mile round trip and the terrain is difficult on the best of days. Hes always pretty relaxed about this kind of thing. And when the stakes are higher, he just gets more excited, so a number of people have been phoning up and saying perhaps he shouldnt do it and perhaps he should postpone because this large storm, storm alex, is coming in. The met office have issued amber weather warnings that will come in force later on today. The met office reminds usjust how wet it was on the 3rd of october. That day was the uks wettest on record, records going back to 1891. It is making me quite nervous, and im going to make sure that were well prepared. Lizzie and i are making sure that were going to take Survival Gear that we werent going to consider taking before, so well have exposure blankets and a warm kit and hot drink and snacks, so that if the weather does turn on the top, then we can get him warm and dry and then get him off the mountain quite quickly. Over the hills, we could see as much as 120 millimetres, so a very, very wet spell of weather. We are likely to see some flooding building in through the weekend across these areas. Here we are at the base of brown willy. The weather is horrible. My familys with me and, of course, were going to make it. Well, its been a roller coaster ride, of course. And with covid recovery, its a difficult thing for people to get over. They feel very tired and breathless and he does feel tired and breathless still. Well, storm alex has definitely come in. And look at it, the weather is blowing and the rains coming in heavy, but its as good as we could have thought it might be. Hes already heading off up the hill, like a schoolboy. Hes raced ahead of me. And, yeah, hes full of beans, very excited, but obviously were taking it sensibly, because the weathers making this even trickier. When i first started exploring, it was all about showing off, about going further and more bravely than other people. And a lot of explorers today still just do that. But i was lucky enough to discover causes, tribal people and rainforests, and i now realise that its much more important for adventurers, people doing exciting things, to have a purpose which helps to save the world, make it a better place, because we havent got time to do anything else. Well, its been quite steep, steeper than i expected. Theres been quite a lot of rain, quite a lot of wind. Weve had to shelter occasionally. The sun peeped through. And we are getting near the top now and all my training has been taxed to the limit now, but i think ill make it. Robin and his family have now passed the Halfway Point and have reached the steepest part of the climb. Robins training so far has never been further than a few miles at a time and never more than a stones throw away from home. Weve all worked hard to get up here today because its been very windy and cold and wet. And its not been an easy climb for him. And the fact that hes 84 is pretty incredible. As robin nears the final push, he starts to feel the effects of the climb. One of the ironies of having my life saved by waking up in a healing garden in Derriford Hospital is that ive spent most of my life campaigning, fighting for rainforests and other wilderness areas in the world because i believed they were important in their own right but in the end, it was a healing garden that saved my life. Exactly five months after robin was released from hospital with coronavirus, he completed his challenge of climbing brown willy, in aid of nhs Healing Gardens. Its a very, very important feat for him. And its a challenge well worth giving him, and hes done it, and ijust feel. Im so pleased, im so proud of him. Hes done well. Im feeling fantastic because weve made it. Thanks to louella for dragging me up and pushing me, we got here. Couldnt have done it without them. And its all for a wonderful cause, for the healing garden at derriford which saved my life, and for the one we hope to build at treliske. For robin, completing this challenge is massive. Its massive for us at derriford and its massive for treliske, to raise money for Healing Gardens across the south west. These gardens make a massive difference for patients in intensive care in every hospital every day, so its just phenomenal. When you take people outside after theyve been in intensive care for a long period of time or even for a short period of time and you show them a blue sky or a grey sky, or even let them feel drizzle on their hands, its often incredibly moving. And its moving because it shows people that life is going to go on and that there is life waiting for them outside intensive care and outside of a hospital bed. Its anything you want it to be, from a gym to where somebody spends their last hours of life, to where a married couple of 40 years can hold hands for the last time, to a place for somebody can bring their dog in, to a place to play basketball, to a place where staff can relax and talk about everything thats going on. It really isjust a space for people to be themselves. Since the climb, robin has turned his attention towards helping his son in rewilding theirfarm in bodmin. Kate tantam was awarded a queens birthday honour for her contributions and dedication to the nhs. Totally and utterly overwhelmed. Hello, its a cold and wintry end to 2020. We have had some mist and murk around today. We have had some mist and murk around today. We have had some sunshine and also some wintry showers. Some of the showers have been bringing snow. Been bringing snow, even to quite low levels in parts of wales and the southwest. This more general area of cloudiness across scotland will be sinking southwards across parts of northern ireland. A mix of rain and snow. Most of the snow over high ground. Slightly less cold air working in with the weather system, very chilly, especially across the south this evening. Overnight, as we end the old year and start the new one, we keep this band of rain, sleet and hill snow moving across parts of north england into wales. South of that, mist and fog will reform. Freezing fog, temperatures as low as minus four or minus five degrees. Quite chilly further north as well, especially inland spots in scotland and northern ireland. Tomorrow, here we see mix of sunny spells and showers. Showers wintry over high ground, especially in northern scotland. All weekend the band of rain and sleet pushes southwards. Quite murky as it pushes south. Another rather cold day, temperatures getting to 3 6 at best. Deeper into the new year, from friday into saturday, still High Pressure to the west, low pressure to the east. Quite a familiar setup by now. That brings us a northerly wind, not desperately strong but it will bring showers into north and eastern coastal counties, some wintry over high ground. One or two showers in parts of pembrokeshire and cornwall. Sunshine in between but it will be another rather cold day. The chilly theme continues into sunday but by now High Pressure is likely to build to the north of the british isles, lower pressure to the south. The isobars are squeezed together and the wind will pick up, coming from a different direction, east or north east, but it will feel cold as we head through next week. There will be a lot of dry weather around, some spells of sunshine. There is the forecast for the next five days. There will also be rain at times, some of it could turn wintry with sleet and snow over the hills. This is bbc news these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. Britain and the eu get ready for a new chapter in their relationship, as the clock ticks down to the post brexit era. The cross channel freight industry will face new regulations well look at what british transport companies are doing to prepare. 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