On which nelson stands overhangs the column. I found myself literally hanging from the ladder with nothing at all beneath me. Thats a long way up, really, isnt it . In an age with a rather relaxed attitude to health and safety, the words, and then it was my turn. Led to some startling tv moments. His trip down the cresta run was also terrifying. I thumped onto the ice and carried on down the track on my backside, still doing around 80 miles an hour. John noakes had started out in the raf before turning to acting and landing thejob on blue peter. The yorkshire accent and the willingness to do anything for a laugh stood out in a rather more formal era of childrens television. We have lost him and our childhoods about. He was the whole bbc to me when i was watching. Shep, dont bite him, hes a nice little fellow. Thats enough after 12 years, he and his dog, shep, were part of national life. Get down, shep, give me back the script, you are making me grown but he had tired of the risks and the workload and was happy to move on. He set off on a yacht and eventually settled in majorca. Off screen, he was rather more shy and serious. Thejohn noakes we knew was in many ways an act. Johnny always had to have a character to play and so he invented thatjohn noakes, not very different from him, but it was an extension of him and it was a john noakes that could do the things that he did on television, which the real john noakes wouldnt do. His skydiving was record breaking and almost went wrong. And his meeting with a baby elephant. A little tv landmark. 0h, get off me foot lulu hadnt stood on his foot Butjohn Noakes always knew how to get a laugh. Millions of us are today saying goodbye to a much loved part of childhood. Note the prospects for the weather. Were not expecting a repeat of the storms that lit up the sky in the south east corner of england in the early hours of this morning. The tendency is to push the wetter weather northwards, most of it heading out into the north sea. So it is becoming drierfor many of us by the end of the night, still a lot of cloud, still quite warm out there is well, 13 14 degrees minimum temperature in england and wales. We have got some changes to come. Ahead of this Weather Front we will find some sunshine developing in many areas with one or two showers. The rain leaving Northern Ireland and heading across scotland, some bursts heading into Northern England and wales the afternoon. Behind that Weather Front we have cooler, fresher air, more sunshine for the South West Of Scotland and Northern Ireland and ahead of that still some warmth, temperatures 22 24 degrees and the south east. By the middle part of the week, not only will it be cooler and fresher it should be generally dry and with the High Pressure we should enjoy some sunshine. Hello. This is bbc news. The Headlines Police release a picture of the Manchester Bomber carrying a blue suitcase, asking whether anyone saw him with it between the 18th and 22nd of may. Greater Manchester Police search a Landfill Site near bury in connection with the attack. A female zoo keeper has died after a tiger entered an enclosure at hamerton zoo in cambridgeshire. The zoo has described it as a Freak Accident and said at no point was Public Safety affected in any way. British airways Chief Executive says hes sorry about the disruption caused by a global computer meltdown, but says he wont resign. Now on bbc news, exclusive access to a priceless archive of footage taken by Young Adventurers exploring parts of the world that were completely new to western eyes. This is great explorations. Historic moments captured on film from a bygone age. We have been given exclusive access to a priceless archive from places that were new to western eyes. Many of these films, from the frozen mountains of the himalayas to the searing Libyan Desert, have not seen the light of day for a hundred years. Sons and daughters of the pioneering explorers see their fathers remarkable footage for the very first time. To see this film makes me feel very proud of him. Im in awe of what he managed to do. They went into the unknown without any consideration for their safety. These are some of britains great explorations. The British Film Institutes National Archive is a treasure trove of britains past. Among the thousands of films stored in this vault are some shot by Young Explorers as they travelled to unexplored parts of the globe. Now theyre being digitised and put online so that we can all relive their incredible stories. Among them is this film, released by Gaumont British in 193a. Its the first flight over Mount Everest. This View From The Top of Mount Everest had never been seen before. The footage is also helping scientists today learn more about the impact of Climate Change. Will you give me a hand with this strap . Certainly it was shot by major Latham Valentine Stewart blacker, a former Fighter Pilot and war hero. He was a real life biggles. The film is a staged re enactment of the first flight over everest, but it includes the actual aerial footage shot during the expedition and stars the original aviators. Well, do you realise you could put everest on the map in three hours . Youre still thinking of the alps. Why not . A good plane, camera shooting down, and you could record every detail. I wonder. Dont be fooled by the ham acting this film won an oscar. The men risked their lives, flying higher than anyone had flown before to capture this historic footage. Wings over everest is part of the Royal Geographical Societys archive of expeditions it sponsored in the early part of the 20th century. What was the motivation . What was the purpose of the society . The purpose of the society has always been to undertake scientific exploration and improve understanding of the world, its people and places. The society has a collection of over two million items, its the Worlds Largest collection of geographically related maps, photographs, artefacts, diaries, notebooks and publications. And this film collection, which has been housed for the society at the British Film Institute for many years, is the last portion of our collections that has not been made more accessible. This is the earliest known film of tibet. It was shown in cinemas all across the uk. Audiences were gripped by this astonishing footage of a strange and mysterious new world. They were taken by a young army officer on the first attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1922. Before they set off, the climbers seek a blessing at a monastery. Theyre treated as honoured guests and shown ritual dances. This one is a tale of reincarnation. Around their waists are aprons made from a lattice of human bones. And theirface masks are made from stretched human skin. The cameraman was captainjohn noel. Although it was shown in cinemas, his daughter has actually never seen the film until now. He suggested to the Mount Everest committee that they took film, and they pooh poohed this idea, said, no, it would have vulgarise the expedition. But he nevertheless persuaded them, and he said, you know, this is a record that we need to make, like scott of the antarctic. This was going to be a world event. It was a bit like the moon landings. Yes, it was, it was, yes, wed just come back through the war, you know, we were impoverished, people had very little to be excited about, and here was this expedition to Mount Everest. John noel climbed treacherous rock faces with his Camera Equipment by day, and by night he would develop his footage. He had this purpose built tent hed taken with him to base camp, and at night, using water from the glaciers and yak dung as a source of heat, he processed 10,000 feet of film on the mountain to be sure that hed got the right composition and good exposures. What was your fathers motivation . It was the fact that it had not been climbed, a feeling of doing this for king and country, and that it should be the british who should at least make an attempt on the mountain. You see, theyre just strolling around in very casual clothes. But it does look as though its a sort of ramble in the lake district, doesnt it . Yes it was all hand knitted at home and tweetjackets. Theres a lovely photograph of my father with a Pocket Handkerchief and a tie down at base camp Mount Everest, thats how he prepared . Ever the gentleman, you know, i mean, thats how they presented themselves. I think not only were they born in the victorian era, but i think the war had moulded them. They had seen so much carnage that they were ready for anything. And it made them very stoic and fearless. They went into the unknown without any consideration for their safety. And the footage is of scientific as well as historical value. Its just absolutely fabulous, these images from 1922. David breashears has literally followed in captain noels footsteps, and hes taken his own images of Mount Everest from the very same places as the early explorers. And here is the glacier were looking at right here, the East Rongbuk Glacier is the glacier here, right through here. He provides the old and new images to scientists. They use them to determine the impact Climate Change has had on the himalayas over the past hundred years. But until now, hes only had a handful of still images from the early expeditions. So the availability of captain noels footage will give him and climate scientists much more data to work with. The historic imagery in the archives of the Royal Geographical Society is this unlimited gift and a treasure to scientists. These are time stamped images, essentially. We know when they were taken and where they were taken. We can find the same positions and take a picture of the exact same place and very clearly, and with extremely high resolution, take note of the difference. And all that difference is in loss loss of a mass in the glacier. Its irrefutable, its clear, it sends the same signal to all who see it. In the end, captain noel and his fellow climbers attempt to reach the summit failed. They came so close they were just half a kilometre short of the summit. At these high altitudes, the air became too thin for them, and so they were forced to turn back. They were just overwhelmed by everything, the terrain, the difficulty of the climb, this constant wind, which i think they werent expecting. But the team had climbed higher than anyone had climbed before and laid the groundwork for the eventual ascent to the summitjust 30 years later by Tenzing Norgay and sir edmund hillary. Here at the bfi, Conservation Specialists are painstakingly restoring 138 films of some of britains greatest explorations, frame by frame. One of them is of a young army officer crossing the vast expanse of the Libyan Desert by motorcar. Ralph bagnold and his friends are on a journey that will take them into uncharted territory. Bagnold was a pioneer of desert exploration. He was an army officer stationed in egypt. His expeditions involve striving thousands of miles into the blistering heat of the Libyan Desert. No one had crossed it. No, no one had crossed it, no one had crossed it by car before. His son stephen has heard stories of these incredible expeditions, but its the first time hes seen them. Thats my father driving there, and you can see the bonnet is off, and you can see the pipe running from the radiator into the. That was a modification . That was the modification to prevent loss of water through evaporation, through the radiator. It was a journey that pushed bagnold, his men and the cars to their very limits. They had to take everything they needed to survive with them. It was all rationed, water, i think it was three pints a day one at breakfast, one at lunch. All for drinking, you washed in the sand, you washed your plates and stuff in the sand. They travelled thousands of miles across the featureless terrain. Bagnold invented a sun compass, which enabled them to navigate with incredible position. They never strayed more than a mile from their intended destination. The experts proclaimed it couldnt be done. And not, i think, because he wanted to show them who was the master, butjust because it tickled his fancy that maybe, with clear planning and with the right equipment and stuff, there could be a way. When one of the cars broke down, it was cannibalised for spare parts and abandoned and theyre still out there somewhere, buried among the dunes. The vehicles would often get stuck in the sand, and each time bagnold and his team would find ever more ingenious ways of extricating them. It looks as though they are using strips of metal that they bought in cairo that had been intended to go on the roof, but it appeared to do the job well. Theyre basically laying tracks or a surface from which the car can get out. 0nce out, you have to keep going, otherwise you just sink again into the same patch of soft sand. Bagnold took careful measurements to understand how the sand is moved by the wind. He wrote several books on the subject and was elected to the royal society, a group of the countrys most distinguished scientists. To see this film makes me feel very proud of him, of course, and im in awe of what he managed to do. His research has helped nasa explore mars. These features on the martian surface are named the bagnold dunes in honour of the great explorer. All the wheels are coming into alignment. Abbie hutty has taken up his legacy. Shes developing europes first mars rover at this test bed in stevenage outside london. Abbie is trying to develop new ways to cross the martian sand just as bagnold did in libya 80 years earlier. He was the first one to really look at the materials that the sand was made out of, and the wind forces and the distribution, and how friction played a part and all of those things, and thats how we predict what its going to be like on mars. Its all about that dry, dusty nature of the sand, and trying to drive over that without sinking into it thats our biggest challenge. I really do think hed be absolutely delighted, amazed and delighted if he knew that the work hed done all that time ago had an application, and a very real application, to the exploration of mars. I think hed be tickled pink. This is the bfis grading room, where the final adjustments are made before the films are released to the public. This one is from a News Bulletin from 1951 which may well be one of the first examples of fake news. Were off on the track of that abominable snowman, and our first clues are these footprints, photographed by eric shipton, leader of the 1951 Everest Expedition. So what made the footprints . Some zoologists thought that the himalayan bear, seen here, might be the snowman. Or maybe its the American Mountain bear but if so, how did he wander into tibet . The experts were baffled. Here, we can compare the Plaster Casts of various Animal Footprints with the photos published in the times. But was it really all just a Publicity Stunt for the times newspaper, which was raising money for the next Everest Expedition . Meantime, Everest Guards says her secret. I think its more about how the story is used by the times to promote awareness of this attempt in 51, so today, i suppose, we would see it as being a kind of a hook for news. In 1951, its the year in london of the festival of london, so theres a huge resurgence in optimism after the second world war, and the whole idea that britain is going to try to reach the Summit Of Everest First is taking shape. Thousands of miles away in yemen, a pilot, aubrey rickards, filmed the hadhramaut, a region that is home to an ancient civilisation. The Film Shows Skyscrapers built in the 16th century from mud. Some are 11 storeys high. There are even whitewashed Mud Constructions that look like vast grand palaces. Theyre still inhabited to this day. This was the first metropolis. Its the very first film footage of yemen. From the air, you see the extraordinary landscape of the hadhramaut, which is an area full of wadis, where water would flow down and enable Human Habitation from prehistory onwards. And what youre seeing is what i think is one of the most extraordinarily sophisticated developments of urban living, because you have People Living in adobe constructed, mud constructed multistorey habitations. The first skyscrapers. Theyre often described as the manhattan of the desert. In the actual manhattan, during the late 60s, Eastern Mysticism was popularised by the hippy culture of the time. Young people in many western countries were inspired to find love, peace and harmony in their lives. But these ideas have their roots in asia, from films shot in the 1930s across the himalayan ranges, of journeys through bhutan and tibet. The men who shot this footage thought they had discovered paradise among the himalayan mountains. George sherriff and frank ludlow filmed scenes of a simpler way of life, where people were happy, content, and lived to a ripe old age. They stumbled on what they thought was a brighter, more hopeful world a contrast to the grim desolation of europe after the first world war. This map, dug out from the archives of the Royal Geographical Society by professor michael heffernan, shows seven of sherriff and ludlows expeditions. Each colour represents a different journey. Well, essentially, its these remarkable routes they took along a river valley, and their primary concern was essentially to map the area, so this is a sort of sketch map produced at the end of all of their expeditions. When sherriff and ludlow begin their expeditions in this area of tibet in 1933, its exactly the same year when james hilton publishes lost horizon, which introduces the idea of shangri la, this kind of perfect place. This was a mountain kingdom, a vestigial world of peace and harmony, precisely the world that had been so obviously left behind by Industrial Warfare that theyd gone through, the world where people could live extraordinary long lives of peace and harmony. And a better world. 450 feet of rock soaring out of the north atlantic, known as The Old Man Of Hoy, and a very crumbling old man he is. In1967, 15 Million People in the uk watched live asjoe brown and five others took on The Old Man Of Hoy in 0rkney, off the coast of scotland. We just had a bit of a slight tangle in the rope there, which stopped me pulling the rope into the carabiner to secure myself. He was then, and still is, among the worlds most well known climbers. But his greatest achievement was nearly 30 years earlier in the himalayas, scaling the unclimbed mountain of kangchenjunga. Its almost as high as everest but harder to climb. Some of his fellow mountaineers were involved in the successful ascent of everest two years earlier. They were climbing royalty joe was a builder from manchester. This was my kangchenjunga axe that i was supplied with. Joe recalls how surprised he was when the Expedition Leader asked him tojoin. When i received a telegram, saying, invited on kangchenjunga expedition, letter following, wants to meet you in london et cetera, i was. I mean, it wasjust incredible, ijust couldnt believe it. The mountain was prone to avalanches, and its terrain was treacherous. Butjoe was fearless. Thats me. Camp 1 was actually in a crevasse, and while we were there, i decided to go and take a bathroom break, so i walked without any fear until i got round the corner, where there was this massive hole. It was the deepest, crevasse id ever seen, and i was standing on the same thin bridge that was on the opposite side of the hole, so i very carefully turned around and tried to make myself weightless and crept back round the corner to where it was solid. But it was very nervy stuff. Job and his fellow climber george band stopped just short of the summit. It was a promised theyd made to the nepalese authorities to respect local beliefs that the peak was home to the gods. I got to the top, but ijust pulled over, and there was just a snow cone rising up about 15 or 20 feet. I shouted down to him, were there, george. And the feeling is not of whoopee you just think, i dont have to go any further its just a fantastic feeling of relief. These great explorations are from an age when the first portable film cameras made it possible for a mass audience to see many of the worlds most inaccessible wonders for the very first time. Adventurers risked their lives to explore a world that still held so many mysteries. And now were all able to see what they saw, as theyjourneyed to the ends of the earth, drawn by the thrill of the unknown, and spurred on by challenge that they found irresistible. Hello there, good evening. In the next few days we should see weather coming from the west bringing fresher conditions. There isa bringing fresher conditions. There is a lot of cloud from the site today and not a lot of sunshine. The rain has been hit and miss, were seeing some storms moving across the channel are not really making it to the uk. 0vernight the wet weather will continue to the north and east, moving towards the north sea. Becoming drier later in the night in most areas. Still a warm and muggy night. Fresher air is coming in behind this Weather Front here. That will bring rain into Northern Ireland that will push across Scotla Nd Ireland that will push across scotland and into Northern England and wales in the afternoon. A good chance of seeing sunshine. Fresher aircoming into chance of seeing sunshine. Fresher air coming into Northern Ireland and scotland. Still warm and humid in the south east of england. A co mforta ble the south east of england. A comfortable night for sleeping on tuesday and then High Pressure will build and bringing some good weather and sunshine. Hello, im Karin Giannone welcome to outside source. Frances new president Emmanuel Macron has been holding his first talks with Vladimir Putin with both leaders saying there was a frank airing of disagreements. Russia today and sputnik have repeatedly produce counter truths about me and my campaign. This doesnt mean that we tried to influence the election, and it would have been impossible as well. This along with the wars in syria and ukraine as well as Russian Support for Marine Le Pen all add to a sense of heightened tensions between the two nations. Uk police have released new pictures of Manchester Bomber, salman abedi, just one day before the attack last monday. President trump expresses his support for his son in law after reports he tried to set up a secret communication