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I will now get in there with a shovel. what is it about putting yourself out of the comfort zone that people enjoy? i suppose it goes back to, it engages the brain. you forget about your worries and you are concerned about keeping warm and surviving. it takes life back to the elemental, it is about survival. but surviving in style, we hope. we have been digging for a couple of hours now and the camera is finally starting to completely freeze over, and i am also freezing over. so were going to fo...

Damage occurring in 2016, 2017 and again this year. a ten—year—old boy from north devon has raised tens of thousands of pounds for charity by camping out in his back garden. max woosey pitched the tent he inherited from a neighbour at the start of lockdown and hes been there ever since. jon kay went to meet him. night 205 and, as max goes to bed, once again he is remembering his hero. rick, his neighbour, who died of cancer earlier this year and left max his tent. he was amazing, he loved th...

He inherited from a neighbour at the start of lockdown and hes been there ever since. jon kay went to meet him. night 205 and, as max goes to bed, once again he is remembering his hero. rick, his neighbour, who died of cancer earlier this year and left max his tent. he was amazing, he loved the outdoors. he said to me, "youve got to promise me that you will have an adventure," and i said, "yes, iwill, i promise you that." and what an adventure hes had. since march, max has slept in the garden ev...

A ten—year—old boy from north devon has raised tens of thousands of pounds for charity — by camping out in his back garden. max woosey pitched the tent he inherited from a neighbour at the start of lockdown and hes been there ever since. jon kay went to meet him night 205 and, as max goes to bed, once again he is remembering his hero — rick, his neighbour, who died of cancer earlier this year and left max his tent. he was amazing, he loved the outdoors. he said to me, "youve got to promi...

Jon kay has more. night 205 and, as max goes to bed, once again he is remembering his hero — rick, his neighbour, who died of cancer earlier this year and left max his tent. he was amazing, he loved the outdoors. he said to me, "youve got to promise me that you will have an adventure," and i said, "yes, iwill, i promise you that." and what an adventure hes had. since march, max has slept in the garden every night, despite all the dangers hes encountered. in the middle of the night, iwas, like,...

Oh, that was a good bit in the middle. i will now get in there with a shovel. what is it about putting yourself out of the comfort zone that people enjoy? i suppose it goes back to, it engages the brain. you forget about your worries and you are concerned about keeping warm and surviving. it takes life back to the elemental, it is about survival. but surviving in style, we hope. we have been digging for a couple of hours now and the camera is finally starting to completely freeze over, and i am ...

I am so cold, it is so snowy. i cant actually imagine how were going to stay here tonight. the big killer in terms of your own temperature is the wind, and when we get in the snow hole we are totally out of the wind. what is the windchill now, what is the windspeed? we are getting in quite a sheltered hollow now so it is probably only 5—10, 15 miles an hour. when we came over the top it was considerably more than that, as you have experienced. while we were preparing the equipment, three of th...

North—east and its going to feel rather chilly but that breeze will strengthen through the night, the minimum temperature between seven and nine celsius. we could see some brighter spells first thing but its going to be a largely cloudy day, a drier day, if you wish i was around for the course of wednesday. there we re for the course of wednesday. there were showers for the rest of this week. however, not too much on the way of sunshine. quite a lot of cloud and yes, the temperature is still f...

Is this small valley 1,100 metres up the mountain. its nicknamed the snow house because of the drifts that collect here. i am so cold, it is so snowy. i cant actually imagine how were going to stay here tonight. the big killer in terms of your own temperature is the wind, and when we get in the snow hole we are totally out of the wind. what is the windchill now, what is the windspeed? we are getting in quite a sheltered hollow now so it is probably only 5—10, 15 miles an hour. when we came ove...

We are tunnelling into the snow at the moment, we have to go in a good metre from the top here. do you want to come in and have a dig? yes. and how long does it take to do this normally? it very much depends on the snow conditions, we have relatively soft snow but certainly three hours plus, sometimes as much as five hours. five hours? digging, yeah. so it is going to go dark not so long away. this is a snow sword designed to be able to cut through ice and snow, and by using this we can often re...