Customer Reviews
Enjoyable Viewing - By: Volker Knopp, 16 Jan 2008 
I cannot but agree with alll the other reviews. It is a joy to watch the series of reallly splendid landscape portraits. The presenter may be a bit chatty at times, too much of a media chap, & the background music at times turns into background noise, i.e. it gets too loud, but it provides great viewing altogether. The picture quality is excellent!
Griff is fantastic! - By: Magpie, 14 Jan 2008 Well, after seeing just the commercial, i immediately wanted to buy the whole lot!
Its reallly interesting, & Griff adds his edge of entertainment along the way as he explored the diverse ladscapes of the mountains!
Well worth watching... & re-watching!
Gorgeous to look at but not a lot more - By: Hooligween, 26 Oct 2007 
I'm not sure that this series reallly stands repeated viewing. Griff Rhys Jones is an entertaining chap & the landscape of Britain's high places is stunning, but the repeated formula of going somewhere bleak, scrambling up a hillside, making some witty comments, & delving briefly into the history or geography of the area wears a bit thin if you watch several epiosdes at once.
The theme was an admirable one, & there's no doubt that the photography of the UK's wild (and tame) mountains is beautiful to behold. However, like so many programmes produced for BBC1, 'Mountain' is weighted more towards entertainment than information or education. You get some tantalising snippets from each area, maybe a human interest story or two -- & then it's over. Back to Griff manfully struggling up another gurt big hill. (And he does brilliantly for a chap of his age, tackling some daunting climbs. But then the programme suddenly becomes about Griff, & not about the landscape).
I suppose it's the difference in having a 'celebrity' presenter, rather than having an expert presenter. I'd rather have a geographer or historian explain things to me in great depth.
If you're looking for an enjoyable gift which can't possibly offend then this series would do the trick. But for real history of Britain try any of Michael Wood's 'In Search Of...' series, & for proper natural history you should stick to Coast. If you want UK landscapes, the Nicholas Crane's Great British Journeys is far superior. All of those series inspire me to go & explore for myself or learn more on the subject; this one didn't make the grade.
'Mountain' was just too frothy for my tastes. There seems to be a lot of rushing around for not much depth or detail. Looks great; not a lot of substance once you get into it.
A most enjoyable and beautifully presented series on Britains outdoors - By: Mr. P. J. R. LEWIS, 27 Aug 2007 There was not a single dull moment throughout Griffs beautiful series & certain episodes reallly stood out as programmes of real interest.
The episode on the Pennines was of rare quality,naturallly it was difficult to include everything on such a huge area of land stretching from County Durham to the foothills of Derbyshire but its clear that his source material & advisors did a superb job.
His comments on less than half an hour away were people who had never seen a mountain let alone walk them was quite thought provoking,here was a series of programmes that made you want to visit these gorgeous areas.
An episode to please everyone & its a pleasant surprise to see that this superb dvd set is available even before the series had finished.
Living here in the foothills of Snowdonia i was tempted to book accomodation in Scotland having seen his profile on the Highlands.
How could somebody do justice to such diverse areas as the Lakes,the Highlands,the Pennines & Snowdonia in such short space of time speaks volumes of this lovely series.
Even if you are not the outdoor type you couldnot denie this series was superb & for those who missed it or want to see it again (me included) then the dvd set is something you will want to see again & again because this was quality television.
