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The Montane Spine Race has grown from a small grass roots event with barely a dozen runners into an infamous and world renowned race with 500 plus competitors. Covering the entire length of the 268-mile Pennine Way from south to north in the depths of winter, it offers participants an experience like nothing else and has built a reputation for being Britain's most brutal race. This film tells the story of the race from its inception to the present day, through interviews with its founders, long-standing crew members and through the experiences of athletes who have braved the challenge.
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00:03Do you fancy doing something in the UK, like what we used to do out in the Arctic?
00:08Yeah, that's a good idea.
00:10And we thought, why not?
00:13Why not?
00:18From little acorns, great trees grow, isn't it?
00:37They want something that is going to push them to their limits.
00:42They want to know what it's like to be right at the edge.
00:49We both had a desire to bring a different perspective on a challenge to the UK.
00:57We thought, yeah, you know, the Pennines, it's all going to be cold.
01:02It's going to be white, it's going to be great.
01:03We can have, you know, everyone can do it on skis and pull sleds.
01:08No, no, it's all just going to be bog and mud.
01:12Yeah, it just gripped me straight away.
01:14I just thought that, yeah, that's insane.
01:15That won't work. That's impossible.
01:18But at the same time, I want to watch this.
01:19I want to see what's going to happen to these people.
01:24I think that's something we would not do.
01:26And it's lovely to watch somebody try their best with their hardest
01:29because it must be amazing to achieve that.
01:33Can someone like me who's not an elite runner, can I do it?
01:38So I thought, why not give it a go?
01:39The Pennines in the winter are like a temperamental child.
01:42Wind blasting, rain blasting.
01:45The margins are so fine and it's only one miscalculation.
01:49And you couldn't be the best survivalist in the world.
01:51You're still going to come unstuck.
01:53The biggest news of the past week just might be Jasmine Paris' domination
01:57of the spine race in the UK.
01:59I think this race looks more into who I was a person.
02:04It's this journey.
02:06People talk about the spine family and it's not an understanding.
02:13If their eyeballs don't come out on stalks then they're filled.
02:18Well somebody came in before they said how far is it is.
02:21I said it's half the distance if you rub some of this and you're arsed.
02:25It's the first time this trip up to Greggsland is going to be filmed.
02:29It's got to go well isn't it?
02:37I will see you in Scotland.
02:39See you in Scotland.
02:41It's not a cutthroat race.
02:43It's I will help you and I think that culture has shone through
02:47because a lot of people will stop and help.
02:51The spine family, I love the spine family.
02:54It's amazing here.
02:57It's almost amazing here.
03:04We've created this over the years.
03:07So yeah, that's how I get emotional from it.
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