S1, E6: This sixth episode explores lakelands, and in particular the Lake District - the most popular National Park in Britain attracting nearly 16 million visitors a year! Griff awakes in the stately Duke of Portland's boathouse on the shores of Ullswater. His challenge - disguised as a parking ticket slapped on the hull of his sailboat - is to break a record. This makes sense to Griff; the Lake District is renowned for its superlatives - the highest mountain, the longest lake, the wettest region! All Griff has to do is find something to excel at. A short flight dangling from a Gyrocopter brings Griff to a Lakeland pig farmer with a difference - Gary McClure is the holder of the record for the longest Cumberland Sausage in the world - it's tasty but it's not a record Griff can beat. After hurtling up the steepest road in Britain Formula 1 style in a Morgan V8 - Griff has a go at traversing the Infinity Bridge at Honister Pass - little more than a tightrope, 2000 feet above sea level and hanging perilously above a steep scree littered cliff. On reaching the end, Griff describes it as "the worst thing he's ever done" - which is saying something! Paying his respects to the most famous record breaker of the lot, Griff visits Coniston Water where Donald Campbell met his end attempting the water speed record. Hailing another lift on a sled pulled by huskies who can run up to 28 mph, Griff ends up at Lake Windermere where he challenges the local water skiing record holder - but it's not for the fastest water skiing record he's chasing - it's the slowest - easy, surely!
