 Hello and welcome to another video. Some are a bit different this one he says with bag chest pouch walking boots different if it was different i'd be at like a banjo convention or something but i'm still hiking guess where we are up north mate yes we're up north we're in the lake district hold on because there's multiple choices here and i don't know which way to go map check come on don't recognise me guys come on it's this way right good pretty much in a straight line isn't it hello oh depends where you're going oh uh pot and pot and whatever it's called straight on i don't know i just checked my map and it was like this is pretty much a straight line i came this way this morning but um i just noticed that one now it might link up if you go around but i don't know right okay have a good one see you so i'm currently hiking from kezik to castle crag and the idea is to get to Grange and meet my dad is two mates and Sid who is my granddad's mate this is a special on this i don't know i'm going to package it or i'm going to edit it or even if i'm going to get a video out of it but it is a special one Sid and his wife Myra were best friends with my nan and granddad and they used to go hiking in the lake district together do everything together and uh Sid unfortunately is the only one left me nan and granddad have passed Myra has passed and he's in his 90s i believe is Sid he's been a hero man for a long time he's a he's like an action man um ex paratrooper um scuba diver the lot an absolute legend he's a he's a he's a real legend i remember once oh there's too many people about come this way i'll tell you can i have mad turkey dogs one sheep oh it's an experiment gone wrong i think look it's all gone right depending on which way you look at it guys doing all right for himself look decent neck don't have to bend down for grass yeah i remember once uh a few years ago now i went round to Sid and Myra's to to do his hedges big private hedges i went round with my ladders and my hedge cutter to cut them and he was like i'll give you hands this is in his 80s maybe late 80s i'll tell you what he was up and down these ladders filling this wheelie bin jumping it wheelie bin to just press everything down he was grafting more than my lads he's a keen photographer he's into his fossils he under fossil shopping with me for a long time so he would go he's got his workshop where he would cut and polish the fossils a really interesting guy and someone who i look up to because he sort of grabs life by the horns and he's constantly doing a bit and that is i guess how you stay so so fit and so young is you just keep doing it because if you don't use it you lose it and he's a shining example of that the fact that Sid used to go hiking a lot with me Nan and Grandad and ah then there's there's a lot there's a lot in this and it is i know it is only just someone going for a walk to do a wane right but it it isn't just that actually it's more it's a lot more it's a lot more than that it means a lot more it symbolizes a lot more i've decided instead of going the river way just along flat i'm just gonna detour and go and have a look up cat bells definitely a leg pumper though before i've even got to start at walk but i'm feeling it man feeling strong at moment also got some pudding to shift my cloud in the sky beautiful little detour but i've got to be a bit of a side very soon to meet the guys so i've got to take i've got a detour down here to hit the side of dirt water and come around i'm finding it hard to do me latches and locks or just to get into a flow because it's so busy now look i can't i can't switch off it's me old man flying thing hello all right i won't be too far from there anyway let me just get a wriggle on an algae i'll give you a ring yeah just continue walking i'll find you i'll find you he says this is a cat do this mate a cat's too many people can't do it i've never done out like this with me old man even even though we're very close you know we speak almost every day and you know we get on like house on fire nowadays but i mean he knows i'm into all this sort of shit but we've never done anything like it together so it's just a good it's a good time saying that he's just supposed to be on phone they're already here where am i miles away didn't i i got the side tracked by going up off at tops there they start to do a strategic change into budges in front of uh all these people expertly done they just put my jacket around me and just like superman in a phone box looks deep enough in there for a little paddle about and i'm going to do just that she was telling me you know we're walking down by the lake but the first time he walked that road right the way up right that one yeah right the way up to kessick he didn't see one car well was it just a wagon see just a wagon that was the only thing i saw right kessick uh what year was that said 1950s yeah it'd be 1954 i think that was an era of damage anyway right you you came out the power as what and then and then and then you were up here do you yeah what you do pull-ups yeah they are you listening to it right night how old are you said 91 91 doing pull-ups on the morning cheers thank you and they just walked down the road and there was no traffic charge in anvil side as well that's crazy it's so busy now i'm in one nearly 70 years ago of course back into there all the paths won't have been as as treaded in as they are now you know i haven't seen many people that's it yeah and uh i mean we are fortunate now to have these things like the maps and the the light super lightweight gear so you can go for days on end and and not have to worry about it but there is some about the old stuff and i see pictures of me grandad didn't like boiling the bag cagool and big canvas gear and wool and all that well have you you were using tanks weren't you you are you want scuba tanks i wasn't using tanks and i was collecting seeds actually all i had was a a little net did you want to bring the blade of the Rohila that was too reportable it took me quite a bit to lift that you never lifted that i found the blade of the Rohila the Rohila was a passenger steamer of the british india steam navigation company which was built for service between the uk and india and as a troop ship after becoming a hospital ship in the first world war she ran aground in october 1914 near whitby with the loss of 83 lives the ship ran aground on saltic nab a reef about a mile east of whitby during a full northeast gale the reef is about 400 yards offshore and the ship soon broke her back over the next three days some of those who attempted to swim to safety in the raging seas were rescued though many were lost and lifeboats were able to rescue others in all 146 of the 229 on board including captain nelson and all the nurses as well as titanic survivor mary roberts survived what did you dive down and just clip ropes on clip stuff onto it what i did i got in touch with the people built the Rohila and that's the same people built oh they call that big one titanic titanic yeah and it was like a small small virgin with a titanic in a way i mean i get excited just finding uh fisherman's old weight up bottom at seafloor so you know it's amazing it's a lot it's it's stupid really i just walk through it and get it again it's just pushed on the head a little bit it's so amazing talking to seed i can't tell you but there's just too many stories and you know i wish i could just mic him up and interviewing properly but we're hiking and it takes you a breath and it's not easy i've known seed for quite some time and i love talking to him but it's another thing when you just when i want to capture stuff and putting cameras in people's faces especially these boys who aren't used to it it's just a bit it's a bit much isn't it it's a bit much so i'm trying to be as discreet as a can and hopefully bring you an idea of the day without getting too intrusive oh look at this spot here beautiful views because i've built these steps into drystone wall i appreciate you whomever you are because that is the techers hey what's that the jelly chascanic can't can't be janked lovely patina good to be adding to the layers of use on this beast it's obviously cacti has he got a second method no oh you push it sorry i'm out of practice nah so old bodge job let you off at view and for steps i mean never mind seed and my words about me old man getting up here i might have to run back down and put him on my shoulders cut through all this slate there's a zigzag path at top and it's hot man there's no reason to push beyond your means especially when it's so hot you know it can't felt best of us why not in dorothy anymore kansas there it is people have stuck all the slate up and drawn little things on them that's nice very nice that's where i've come from right at the other side of derwent water beautiful it's got me thinking life is so short and so finite and all your loved ones are gonna pass or you're gonna pass before them and the things that you love to do one day it'll be the last day you ever do that you might not know it there is might be the last day that i ever climb a mountain and i don't know it i might lose my legs i might you know get chlamydia might pass away you just don't know and it's such a cliche to say like i'll make the best of life you know like squeeze it squeeze every little bit of juice out of it you can but it's times like this and knocking about with seed and seeing these things that just makes me think yeah i'm in i'm squeezing i'm squeezing it i'm using it so i don't lose it i've brought a few snacks that lads thought i'll hike ahead and get a little snack platter set up because i know well steve said that him and seed ain't got no food so it might it'll be a nice little treat a summit treat what do i have i hear you cry i'll tell you i'll show you i'll show you look if you'll stay there if you're if you're humor me i'll show you it's all right it's a bit sweaty but blue cheese what you're gonna do bit of stilton some rosemary and sea salt sourdough crackers some bottom's stem ginger brach and some ally elijah's yorkshire chutney spot on spider core i don't spider core a lot i didn't realize i'd be goggles with me i could have used them in that i'm off back in there later because that was not looking good didn't it hey up you run all the way up did you if you're not way up here he is don't let me undies fly off there this is officially the summit unbelievable unbelievable work shake my hand don't leave me hanging seed especially not on film haha well done mate well done excellent work well done everyone you know it was easy all right i mean you flew up pretty much i don't unfortunately know i might have some scissors i've turned them into shots i haven't seen this the granddad used to come as well yeah but we did a lot of it and they would decide somewhere so i would go the granddad was often decided but yeah that's brilliant isn't it it's brilliant i'm just hiking ahead because i'm not trying to find some water to have a swimming in before the gang catches me up you know sometimes you do something and you're living in that moment and you're doing something and you know that what you're doing is special and you're trying to be in that moment as much as you can and that was that was that moment and i mean i'm sure everyone else is like yeah whatever we just climbed a hill or whatever but it means more it definitely means more to me and it's special isn't it it is special to share that just listening to all his stories on the way up and you know he was telling me stuff about me nan and granddad and him and myra who was his wife and and all their trips to the lake district it's his favorite place it was their favorite place it's the reason why i do my long distance hiking and me camping and i've done for a long time and it's because of you see me nan and granddad doing it and yeah i don't know i just feel it i just feel it feel it in my bones mate feel it in me in my soul and my ticker and i know that's a poignant moment and i got a lovely photo of me and sid on the top and some lovely drone footage of us all oh gate look good old gates eh good old gates not me i'm a mess i'm a mess no one else is getting there is tearing up are it's just a hill it's just a hill think too much about stuff but i don't know it just brings back memories still every morning it goes for walks with a backpack on it's down the column the zigzags in whitby and it's these paths that zigzag down to the beach they're really steep and he just chucks a load of weight in his backpack and just does that and then on the morning he does pull-ups there's no excuse guys i'm sorry but if you're looking for an example of someone like if you're looking for a a beacon of hope it's Sid if you're looking for someone there's a a role model or a hero it's Sid there is no one there's no one else for me and people ask you like who's your role model who's your hero and Sid's been a hero man for since primary school and i remember having a teacher who used to say even at primary school because i went to primary school with uh Sid's grandson Mark and uh i remember the teacher being like oh your grandad's a hero he's a legend and all this sort of stuff and he really is man but an unsung one who just gets on with it it's lovely beautiful he's an inspiration to me an absolute inspiration i remember this place where fern dropped a fern good times i was looking for somewhere to uh to have a swim but it looks pretty dried up here we are the ale house the fabled ale house the scarf hello tell this one ain't gonna touch the sides i am i was just saying on my camera it's good good to do a bit you know i'll remember these times cheers cheers and there we have it thanks to my dad Dave Steve who is Sid's son-in-law and of course Sid for letting me tag along on what to them was probably just a jolly in the lakes but to me it was a lot more and a memory that i'll treasure forever and as we rode the open top bus back to keswick in anticipation of a pub meal and a couple of pints my mind wanders to my nan and granddad and to Sid's wife Myra who are now immortalised in the trails valleys and mountains of the lake district this one's for you and is to making the most out of this tiny little snippet of randomness we call life thanks for watching be kind to yourself and i'll see you soon