With some schools re opening on monday occasionally. After the christmas break, we are getting near the top there are concerns there what we are doing is to now and all my training wont be enough staff, because of worries over examine the rainforest, is being taxed to the limit now. The new variant of coronavirus. Which is a vital and very but i think i will make it. The biggest teaching union, the neu, is advising members only to hold classes for the children of key little understood environment. Workers, or those from vulnerable backgrounds. With more, heres our education correspondent, danjohnson. Robin and his family have now probably the richest passed the Halfway Point environment in the world and one which is disappearing and have reached the steepest part of the climb. With terrifying speed. Robins training so far has can the virus be never been further than a few controlled if these robin has chronicled his life classrooms fill up again . Of adventure through a series miles at a time and never more its a huge question, than a stones throw with all kinds of complications of more than 20 books. Away from home. And implications. His most recent book explores ive had two parents already the major threats facing the world today, contact me over the weekend we have worked hard to get up to say that theyve got concerns about bringing their including pandemics. Here today because it has been children back to school. Windy, cold and wet and its in oxford, some parents robin was one of the first not been an easy climb for him are making their own decisions covid i9 patients into and the fact that he is 84 derriford hospital, having and Primary School head teachers like lynn are caught the virus whilst skiing is pretty incredible. Grappling with tricky prior to the lockdown. Issues ahead of children coming back here on tuesday. As robin nears the final push, 36 hours after he was in he starts to feel the effects hospital, he was heavily of the climb. Sedated and put on a ventilator. Yes, the government are continually reviewing so one of the ways that ive the situation but, actually, been keeping in touch i want someone to say, with the family is with no, we are going to close for two weeks. Youre going to do something really well to make sure the children learn and that, to my mind, would be far more effective than just having this a family group chat. Constant anxiety behind everyones feelings. Are we going to close, are we not going to close . But staying closed would mean childcare. It would mean learning from home and the risk that some kids my son says he is praying one of the ironies of having my and thinking of him. Life saved by waking up miss out and fall behind. I cant really read them. Sounds like hes getting in the healing garden the best possible care in derriford hospital, is that i have spent most since hes started, hes and lots of attention. Learned to read and write. You are so brave of my life campaigning, we wouldnt have been able fighting for rainforests to teach him that at home, and other wilderness areas in the world, because i believe so its amazing hes had that opportunity, as well, louella. They were important so i want it to continue. In their own right. But in the end it was the healing garden that i hope the teachers are robins a tough old nut. Saved my life. Prioritised for vaccinations, i cant really read. So that there is some element we know hell pull through. Of safety in returning to schools, as it will benefit everyone, especially the young children. Being in first means he has their full attention. He is in the right place. Stay strong. Sending huge love, exactly five months after robin at the moment, i think it hell pull through. Was released from hospital would be better if we didnt. We love him, etc. With coronavirus, he completed i think it would be better his challenge of climbing if all the schools were closed, brown willy in aid of just till we got yeah, theres lots of nhs Healing Gardens. Over this peak. Theres pressure from teaching unions, councils and some local public wonderful messages from people it is a very, very Important Health directors. Some have already told their schools to stay closed. And hes still deep in the woods, but at least so, the number of children who actually return from tomorrow isnt entirely its not worsening. Achievement for him. Thats so encouraging. In the governments hands now. Some further closures do look inevitable, whether thats through decisions made by councils or the government it is a challenge, having no other option and that but well worth giving him could well last beyond sleep well. Yeah, just lots of similar and he has done it. These first two weeks. Sorts of messages. I am so pleased, yeah, hell get there. So, the priority has always been to keep schools open as much as possible but theres i am so proud of him. An argument that taking some action now could help avoid further robin and louellas farm on bodmin moor, disruption in future. One of cornwalls designated areas of outstanding natural beauty, is overlooked i am feeling fantastic wales and Northern Ireland have by cornwalls highest peak, because weve made it. Delayed the return brown willy. Their shared love of nature thanks to louella dragging me another week. Drew the couple to the moor and scotlands schools wont fill up up and the weather pushing me, until the middle of the month. Over 30 years ago. Ive done it. In bradford, pupils are due couldnt have done to return under tier 3 it without everyone. It is all in a wonderful cause but staff here, like for the healing garden, elsewhere, could vote which saved my life. With their feet after teaching unions declared classrooms unsafe. It is massive for robin whether we open or not completing this and here depends on the number of staff that we have. At the hospital. Well raise money for Healing Gardens across the south west. And its notjust teachers. This is such a special these gardens make a massive difference to patients place because we come in intensive care in every there are other members here often together. Of staff who have genuine concerns as well, robins travelled all his Life Hospital every day. To the most wonderful places including kitchen staff. And, of course, yourfavourite it is just phenomenal. Place has got to be home, when you take people outside and obviously in the woods here on our farm. After they have been we would need to feed the children at lunchtime and its very comforting in intensive care for a long and if we dont have kitchen and reassuring to visit it time, even for a short length staff in school because and think about of their concerns of time, you show them a blue then thats another issue that i need to take into account sky or a grey sky or even let being here with him. Them feel drizzle when we make a decision. On their hands, it often this evening, the local is incredibly moving. Government association called for schools to have flexibility it is moving because it shows in making their own decisions. 20 of englands primary pupils after two weeks in hospital, people that life is going to go already face a fortnight robins kidneys fail. Of Home Learning and more he is unconscious. On and there is life waiting areas are now saying for them outside intensive care their schools should join them and outside the hospital bed. And more schools are finding the family can do nothing but they havent got the it is anything you want it staff to open anyway. Wait as robin clings to life. Danjohnson, bbc news, oxford. The doctors tell them to begin to come to terms to be from a gym to where with a life without him. Somebody spends their last you never know how you are going to react when somebody hours of life, to a place now on bbc news, veteran that you care about is where a married couple of a0 explorer robin hanbury tenison, so unbelievably ill who spent weeks in a coma and on deaths door. Years can hold hands battling covid i9, says and, you know, every for the last time, to a place the healing power of nature day was pretty brutal somebody can bring their dog and we were pretty broken. In, where somebody can play basketball, staff can relax and talk about everything that is going on. The doctor says to him your lungs are filling it really is just a space helped to save his life. Up with fluid. We have two options. Option one is we leave you and hope that you get better naturally for people to be themselves. But the chances are at your age, youre almost certainly are going to die if we do that. Option two is, we sedate you, since the climb, robin has robin was one of the first turned his attention covid i9 patients into probably for ten days, derriford hospital. He may be a veteran of 30 try and drain your lungs towards helping his son in expeditions, but surviving but at your age you have rewilding theirfarm in bodmin. About a 20 chance kate was awarded a queens coronavirus would prove to be of survival. Birthday honour for her one of robin hanbury tenisons at this point, the doctors call contributions and toughest experiences yet. You know, every day was pretty us and say that actually, brutal and we were pretty hes deteriorating further. His lungs are still filling broken. The doctors called us to say that actually, with fluid and they want to put he is deteriorating further. A tracheotomy in. His chances of ever recovering normally, this is a relatively simple procedure but because dedication to the nhs. Have now gone down to about 5 . Of his age, there is a strong i opened my eyes, saw the sunshine, saw the flowers and that was the moment when my life was saved by the healing power of nature. Chance hell die in surgery. Completely overwhelmed. Its a long road back from Something Like that. Essentially, his body was failing and i think having and the doctors want to make it a goal, something to work really clear to us that towards, is vitally important even if he does survive that, because it gives you a target to aim for. His chances of ever recovering and that goal can be as trivial have now gone down to about 5 . Or as ambitious as you want and even if he does recover, it to be. He may well be bedbound, have severe cognitive impairment, and never be the man that we knew who went into hospital about a month before. And they say that we have some Difficult Conversations ahead so this has been as big of us when we may have a challenge as any that ive to decide whether its even worth continuing done in my life, to get to the point where i could climb this mountain. I will make it to the top 2021 has certainly started because i believe everyone with treatment. On a cold and wintry note. Should have access to the same through the weekend we have seen sleet and snow from many places, not everywhere, this was near sheffield thing that saved my life. On sunday afternoon. Theres also been heavy it must be lovely to have rain showers around. All this old footage 00 05 45,846 2147483051 39 37,638 of your dad sort ofjust 2147483051 39 37,638 4294966103 13 29,430 lying around the house. Over the coming few days i believe im alive. The story stays the same, you are alive. Staying cold with a mix you are definitely alive. Of rain, sleet and snow, mainly over hills, the snow. Some sunshine but often after five weeks in intensive quite windy conditions, care, robin was wheeled particularly into derriford hospitals healing garden with icu nurse through monday and tuesday. Kate tantam by his side. We have High Pressure sitting to the north of the uk, low pressure down towards i remember the first times the south, south west he went outside and you feel fresh air and they see sun and in between those two areas, and they see flowers and its were drawing in that cold wind like they kind of start coming in from the north east to emerge out of out of this dream. You could see he was looking at things and thinking, of the north sea so that brings showers on monday, this is real. This is tangible. Rain for east anglia and the south east and the channel isles and further north, one or two wintry showers over the pennines, Southern Uplands and one or two over the higher i feel safe. Ground of wales. And that was a real breakthrough for him in his recovery. A good deal of sunshine my name is robin hanbury tenison. Developing for many areas, im an 84 year old explorer it will be a windy and i survived five weeks day, though, with gusts over in intensive care a0 mph along the coast with coronavirus. The moment when i actually woke of east anglia and through the english channel. Up and i knew i was going temperatures up to about 4 6 degrees, below average for the time to live was the moment of year and feeling colder when i was wheeled out by four when you add that wind chill. Nurses in a big bed with tubes moving through monday evening, overnight into tuesday, coming out of everywhere weve got more showers feeding and i arrived in the healing in from the north sea on the north easterly wind garden theyve got at and it could be ice and snow i opened my eyes, saw around for parts of eastern the sunshine, saw the flowers and that was the moment scotland and north east england when my life was saved as well. By the healing power of nature. Temperatures overnight not quite as cold as recent nights but still getting down to freezing or below, the coldest across the north west. Heading into tuesday, a similar day to monday, watch out for ice and snow once he may be a veteran of 30 again, particularly for eastern expeditions, but surviving scotland, Northern England coronavirus would prove to be and further rain showers one of robin hanbury tenisons to come for east anglia and the south east of england toughest experiences yet. But here he is leaving hospital and the channel isles, this stubborn area of cloud to the cheers of the nhs staff and rain persisting. Another cold day with some sunshine who cared for him. And around 3 6 degrees and still are wind chill on tuesday. During the darkest days moving through into wednesday, of his illness, robins family High Pressure tends to move had been told if he did away survive, the impact towards the west so we are in of the virus would very likely between weather systems heading into wednesday, a quieter day and the breeze be severe and long lasting. Turns to a northerly direction for the middle to the end of the week. It was quite a shock to be told that i might never walk properly again. Recovery after intensive care is like a marathon and every step feels hard and feels challenging and its made up of a million different components. So even learning how to swallow again is a big journey. Sitting independently probably quite a bit of sunshine, still a few showers for eastern england, one or two for the south east and channel isles as well. And it is staying cold for the time of year with temperatures only about 1 4 is a big journey. Degrees on wednesday. Bye for now. Sunday brought us another wintry feeling, fairly cold but robin had a goal unthinkable, perhaps, to those around him but a goal that drove him through his recovery. Exactly five months from may the 3rd is october the 3rd, so i decided that on that day i would climb cornwalls highest mountain, brown willy, and try and raise £100,000 towards a garden at cornwalls hospital, treliske, because i think every hospital in the country should have a healing garden in it, and lets start with cornwall. Welcome to bbc news im mark lobel it was exciting to have him our top stories President Trump is recorded home but it was also quite on tape asking an election nerve racking as well. Official to find him extra we were in lockdown for two votes in the state of georgia. Weeks once he got home, the recording comes as some senators in the Republican Party say they support donald trump in questioning the results. So no one came near us. Democrats have called and thats quite scary. The phone call a disgrace. And it was a bald faced, bold abuse of power by the president of the united states. Im not a nurse and i didnt know whether i was going in other news, borisjohnson warns that covid restrictions to have to do major nursing or not. In england are probably he was very thin and had about to get tougher as the uk records another 50,000 new cases in a lost about 1. 5 stones. Single day. So we had a lot of work to get him back on his feet again. Could Julian Assange finally be heading to the us to face charges of espionage . He could hardly walk a few yards when he got home ona zimmerframe. It just takes a bossy woman and a certain amount of threats and he would do what i had told him. So we borrowed a mobility scooter, we borrowed an exercise bike and we have done a lot of exercises and short walks. It hasjust been really amazing watching his strength come back, his muscle come back. He was very thin and a bag of bones when he got home. He gets very breathless still and even though his lungs are clear, i am not sure everyone quite gets back to where they were after this, but he is fantastic and he is strong and determined man and he has worked hard. What would you say to any other patient who is having to fight off this infection from the outset because they are quite literally climbing a mountain when it comes to the impact this infection is having on the lungs or the oxygen content of their blood and the overall impact physically of this infection. Everybody has to have a goal when they are rehabilitating and when they are recovering. The journey that robin is going through at the moment in terms of his recovery following on from an infection like this is going to be no different to the journey that many patients across the country, indeed across the world, are going to be making at the moment. We are ecstatic to have him home and it is great to see him getting stronger and stronger. The weather is getting worse and he is a bit weaker than he was before and we are worried he might have bitten off a bit more than he can chew. My wife louella has been marvellous at encouraging me to do my exercises. And now that i am pretty well done with physio, we are concentrating walking long distances every day. Throughout his life, robin has set himself tough challenges. For his 80th birthday, he ran his first marathon. But the charity he is most proud of is international which he established 50 years ago. The organisation fights for the rights of these once voiceless people. Anywhere in the world where a new dam, high speed road or vast Mining Operation is planned and the blueprints cover land occupied for centuries by tribal people, commerce comes before conscience and the indians are swept aside in the name of progress. Survival international exists to temper that race for progress with patience and understanding. His friend and contemporary, sir ranulph fiennes, is proud of what he has achieved. In my opinion, robin is one of the greatest explorers alive today and his legacy is one that does more for conservation and human rights. In addition to the sheer volume of his great adventures, his uniquely far reaching successes for various forms of conservation, includes sterling work for the preservation of threatened rainforests. I am truly proud to have known my friend robin down the long years, and i seize this opportunity to thank him for all his great works. It is the day of the climb. Robin and the family are getting themselves ready for the journey from their home to the base of the highest point in cornwall, 1,378 feet above sea level. Get these boots on. Absolutely, what a weather forecast. Its going to be quite a day. The ascent to the top of brown willy is a seven mile round trip and the terrain is difficult on the best of days. He is always pretty relaxed about this kind of thing and when the stakes are higher, he just gets more excited. So, a number of people have been phoning up saying, perhaps it shouldnt do it and he should postpone because of this storm alex that is coming in. The met office have issued amber weather warnings that will come into force later. The met office reminds us how wet it was on the 3rd of october, that was the wettest on record, records going back to 1891. It is making me quite nervous and i am going to make sure that were well prepared and lizzie and i will make sure we will take Survival Gear we didnt consider taking before, so we will have exposure blankets, warm kit, hot drinks and snacks. So if the weather does turn on the top, then we can get him warm and dry and get him off the mountain quite quickly. Over the hills we could see as much as 120 millimetres, so a very wet spell of weather. We are likely to see some flooding building in through the weekend across these areas. Here we are at the base of brown willy, the weather is horrible. My family is with me and of course were going to make it. Well, it has been a roller coaster ride and with covid recovery, it is a difficult thing for people to get over. They feel very tired and breathless and he does feel 00 14 47,180 4294966103 13 29,430 tired and breathless still