| High Altitude | ||
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| Background information | ||
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| Directed by | Lucy Cutler Chris Grubb | |
| Presenters | Ed Leigh Graham Bell | |
| Genre | Mountain adventure | |
| Length | 30 minutes | |
| First broadcast | 8 March 2009 10:30pm-11:00pm | |
| Channel | BBC Two | |
| Editing by | Charlie Cope Chris Groom | |
| Producer | Gabrielle Cook | |
| featuring Simon Le Bon | ||
High Altitude: Series 1, Episode 7 is a British mountain adventure show broadcast by BBC Two on 8 March 2009, which featured Simon Le Bon.
About the show[]
Presented by Ed Leigh and British Olympic skier Graham Bell, the show featured celebrity ski fans undertaking challenges including bob skeleton, cross-country skiing and speed skiing. The challenges tested their mental and physical strengths against nature on the mountains.
For this 30 minute episode, Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon and his brother Johnny (both former crew members of Drum) were invited to a frozen lake in Sweden in a quest for sailing supremacy - on ice. On catamaran-shaped boats, they flew across the ice at speeds of up to 100kph in an exhilarating and potentially very dangerous competition. Presenters Leigh and Bell then set the challenge of accessing the highest mountain peaks using only natural means, such as animals and wind, instead of cable cars and helicopters.
The episode was later repeated on Wednesday 13 May 2009 at 00:15am on BBC Two.