Bird's story would make a remarkable documentary - we didn't need a girly gallivant to support it
Trailblazers: A Rocky Mountain Road Trip, BBC2, review: Penis jokes and shrieking spoil Isabella Bird’s featEmily Atack, Ruby Wax and Mel B, , three sassy women from three different generations headed to Colorado to follow in the footsteps of Isabella Bird, a British explorer who moved to cowboy country in 1873.
But the insistence on girly chat and comical timidity felt like misogyny masquerading as feminism . “Who’s going to sob first?” cackled Wax as if they were about to be put in solitary confinement for three weeks rather than go on quite a nice jolly around one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Wax, Brown and Atack eventually attempted to climb a local peak. The latter two were in fact pretty good, making their way to the top of quite a sheer rock face. And yet, still, the focus was on their shrieks of terror and their jokey attempts to motivate each other by invoking a sort of bitchy competitiveness.One can’t help but feel much of the problem was in the editing. The three women did show a real appetite for the climbing, the fishing, the horse riding.
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