Sir Max Scales Heady Heights Again With 45 Commando

Sir Max asked the guys to remark on what the conflict means to them, men who weren’t even born at the time of the Falklands War. It was a successful day’s filming and we were delighted to host Sir Max, especially given his history with our Unit.

Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Mike Tanner

Sir Max Scales Heady Heights Again With 45 Commando14/02/2012

Royal Marines from 45 Commando in Arbroath had a very special guest at a recent mountain training and abseiling serial at Ballachulish Quarry near Glencoe. The man in question was journalist and broadcaster, Sir Max Hastings, who had embedded with 45 Commando at the start of the Falklands War back in 1982, and who – with a BBC film crew – is now making a documentary on the legacy of that conflict, 30 years on.

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Sir Max – despite his fear of heights – scaled the cliff faces to talk to young members of Command Company, who were being put through their paces by the Unit’s crack team of mountain leaders.

Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Mike Tanner oversaw the event and commented:

“Sir Max asked the guys to remark on what the conflict means to them, men who weren’t even born at the time of the Falklands War. It was a successful day’s filming and we were delighted to host Sir Max, especially given his history with our Unit.”

One of the cameras used by the film crew was similar to that seen in the recent BBC programme, Earth Flight – a ‘hover-camera’ costing £10,000 – which provided aerial pictures using a remote control.

The programme is due to screen in the first week of April.