“I SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS ON THIS, I CAN’T EVEN BEGIN TO FATHOM”
the fi lm’s scenic dazzle. He doesn’t drive, and mostly reached the fells by carrying 30 kilogram loads from stops on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway. Once there, he remained for weeks at a time, resupplying through the help of his wife, Sue, who arranged for food deliveries to local pubs. “I spent countless hours on this, I can’t even begin to fathom”, he says. “It was the longest time I’ve ever worked on one project. It was hard wild camping, being away from home, capturing the sights, getting up and down to the locations, meeting people, doing interviews, getting to know them, developing relationships with them. There’s a lot of time involved, too much time probably, but I don’t really care about that because I enjoy what I do.” Since made redundant from an IT job three years ago and deciding to go full-time with his ambition of becoming an outdoor fi lmmaker, Terry has built up a devoted online following through his prolifi c use of blogging and social
media. The establishment of this following has given him a base of support to provide him with the fi nancial and moral backing to pursue his own vision with as few strings attached as possible. Like its immediate predecessor, ‘The Cairngorms in Winter with Chris Townsend’, ‘Scafell Pike’ was made on a shoestring budget, funded through a mix of commercial sponsorship, crowd-funding via websites like IndieGoGo, and his own savings. The BMC was one of the sponsors, showing exclusive behind-the-scenes clips on BMC TV as it was being made. Terry scoffs a little when I say he has built up his own ‘brand’, but concedes he has managed to create a reputation that allows him to stand alone to a large extent. “I’m mindful to have to accommodate sponsors and so on, I’m not daft, but by and large I have no strings attached, I can be creative and let loose. But it’s still a tightrope act. I don’t have that security of a guaranteed paycheck at the
R The mighty Scafells at dawn from Bowfell. Terry was camped just feet away, thanks to the deep snows of 2012.
Q Terry by his usual home out on the hills. This time, camped on the Moine Mhor, Cairngorms National Park.
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PHOTO: TERRY ABRAHAM.
PHOTO: TERRY ABRAHAM.
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