Mountain meditation

Michaela Strahan hikes across Wales to help cope with painful loss...

- VICTORIA WILSON, HANNAH DAVIES

Michaela Strachan is best known for bringing us stories on the natural world as host of the BBC's Springwatch. But her reasons for joining six celebrities this week in BBC2's Pilgrimage: The Road Through North Wales go beyond her love for the great outdoors.

'I'd had a really heartbreaking year last year with lots of people very close to me passing away, including losing my best friend to breast cancer, so Pilgrimage was my journey of being able to process that grief,' explains Michaela.