The Adventure Show - Season 5

In this year's Grandtully Premier Slalom, the final wildcard places for the British Canoe Slalom Team are up for grabs. Only those selected here can be considered for the Olympic squad. And we join some of those leading kayakers to discover what it takes to get to the top of this sport.

Last year, Britain's Gee Atherton was the fastest man on the downhill course but can he beat off the competition this year? On one of the longest and toughest of the circuit there's no lack of talent from elsewhere in the world.

This month the Adventure Show travels to the Isle of Jura for one of the toughest fell races in the UK. This is a true test of mountain craft, athleticism and technique. More than 200 competitors have signed up for the race and face 28 kilometres of running with 2,300 metres of ascent over seven summits, all through wild rugged island landscape.

This month the Adventure Show is on the island of Kerrera, near Oban, for a brand new event - the Craggy Island Triathlon. Starting with a swim from the mainland, 200 competitors then complete an off-road bike circuit of the southern half of the island, before taking on a boggy and wild hill run through its centre.

Almost 140 years ago, three men crossed from the Hebridean island of Lewis to the north west coast of Scotland. Their aim was audacious: to be the first people to stand on the top of the Great Stack of Handa, an isolated pillar of rock. Failure would have meant certain death. Success, won against all the odds, gave birth to a new sport.

They've come from all over the world to the Hebridean Island of Tiree to ride the waves of the North Atlantic.

Starting on Aberdeen's beach and finishing in the wild lands of Knoydart in the west, Cameron McNeish travels through Scotland's most spectacular glens and mountains following a new route that proves that Scotland has some of the most outstanding landscapes in the world.

This month's programme covers the OMM - the original mountain marathon - in Highland Perthshire. The first multi-day event of its kind and to many competitors, still the best. A test of endurance, navigation and willpower where competitors need to carry everything they need on their back.

In the middle of winter, with 17 hours of darkness, 500 competitors head north of Inverness for one of the world's toughest mountain bike races - the Strathpuffer 24 hour marathon. And once again, this year conditions are testing as we follow the hardiest of competitors - the solo riders.

It's over 150 years since climbing developed as a sport and in that time Britain's great crags have been thoroughly explored. In their search for bold new routes, two of Scotland's best rock athletes, Dave MacLeod and Alan Cassidy, travel south of the Border to the heart of the English climbing scene.