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| BBC Scotland's ambitious outside broadcast featuring the world's best climbers undertaking extreme challenges in the Highlands has been postponed. | BBC Scotland's ambitious outside broadcast featuring the world's best climbers undertaking extreme challenges in the Highlands has been postponed. |
| Persistent rain and poor visibility have forced the production team to delay the six-hour show. | Persistent rain and poor visibility have forced the production team to delay the six-hour show. |
| The Great Climb was due to take place from 1300 BST on Saturday. | The Great Climb was due to take place from 1300 BST on Saturday. |
| BBC Scotland said it would now go ahead on Sunday between 1300 BST and 1905 BST and be broadcast live on BBC2 Scotland and streamed at bbc.co.uk/greatclimb | BBC Scotland said it would now go ahead on Sunday between 1300 BST and 1905 BST and be broadcast live on BBC2 Scotland and streamed at bbc.co.uk/greatclimb |
| The Great Climb, which will be produced from BBC Scotland by Triple Echo, is a fully HD broadcast from the stunning Loch Avon basin deep in the Cairngorms National Park. | |
| Eight of the world's top climbers will attempt testing routes on the imposing Shelter Stone and Hell's Lum crags. | Eight of the world's top climbers will attempt testing routes on the imposing Shelter Stone and Hell's Lum crags. |
| It will climax with Scotland's top climber, Dave Macleod, trying to get himself up a difficult new route on Hell's Lum, and will also include features on the local landscape, environment, hills and wildlife. | It will climax with Scotland's top climber, Dave Macleod, trying to get himself up a difficult new route on Hell's Lum, and will also include features on the local landscape, environment, hills and wildlife. |