The film was shown at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival last night. The audible gasps when the red line would flicker over the topo map were almost as loud as the laughs at the end when Steve had 214 handshakes at the Moot Hall. The scenes with the blisters were also a bit too graphic for a Canadian audience of supposedly hardy trail runners.

What an achievement!! If Channel 4 did an alternative SPOTY like they do the alternative Queen's speech, I'm sure that Steve would have been a shoe-in ..... or maybe even a taped ankle-in .