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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Climbing, weaving, cycling... Nick's big on action, but short on insight
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: t's a bit much for Nick Knowles in his new travel show. Most of the time he's out of breath, and sometimes he can hardly stand up to say his bit to camera.
Before the opening credits finished rolling, he was halfway up a cliff face in the Andes — not so much climbing freestyle as being winched up on a rope with a harness round his hefty rear end. The penguins were nesting in holes, but that didn't stop Nick and his guide, a conservationist called Roberto, from poking a stick into the burrow to see if their chicks had hatched yet. Then, he visited a wind turbine facility, went bike riding with a chap who had cycled the 11,000 miles from Mexico, and paddled off in a kayak to inspect a melting glacier — before finally arriving at an eco-hotel, where he stumbled exhausted into the bar.
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