The implausible but strangely addictive Scottish mountain rescue drama is back, plus one of its main stars has become a committed climber himself...
Great news for all you Rockface addicts out there, the Glentunnock
- yes, we know it's not really Glentunnock but so what - Mountain
Rescue Team returns to our screens later this month for a second
series.
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The lovely Annie - climbing burd,
ya gotta love them, and bleurks too of
course
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The new series starts on BBC One on Sunday 25 May, which is, of
course, next Sunday, so make sure you're off the hill early or simply
set the video for 5.45 pm.
Regular OMers will know that we regard Rockface as the seminal
mountain rescue drama and awarded it a prestigious, erm, award last
year in recognition of its improbable plot lines, absurd
characterisation and frankly, overall implausibility. Remember the
monk who held two falling men with his bare and bleeding hands? How
could you forget?
So what's new? Well, apparently 'too handsome for his own good'
Jamie decides to court the lovely Caroline and thinks hard about
returning to medical school. More interestingly, apparently the
latest series has been filmed in higher, more extreme locations,
though still in the Fort William / Ben Nevis area and some of the
actors have got more and more into the mountains - 'no free-climbing'
though... Can't go killing your stars...
Cal MacAninch who plays Ben Craig, nearly did come a cropper for real though. Apparently Cal's become a bit of a climber and while mountaineering in Turkey, he caught a crampon point in his trousers and fell around 100 metres before his climbing partner held the fall (it says here, rather improbably).
Cal's obviously got the climbing bug big time. 'I wasn't prepared
for the effect climbing would have on me,' he says. 'I felt
empowered; it seemed to make sense of life.' So good for him.
More significantly though, what about his character Ben's fixation
with the lovely Annie and her curly dark locks? Well, don't tell
anyone, but he's been off to New Zealand for six months and is now
completely over her. Yeah right, me too, when did that last
happen...
For more on the characters and the last series, see the Rockface
web site.
