It's not very often you watch a documentary and find yourself actually feeling very scared. Well, I say not often, but I do remember watching the fly-on-the-wall documentary about the glamour model Jordan and her husband Peter Andre and feeling particularly terrified.

But anyway, that aside, when I tuned into BBC1's Ultimate Rock Climb on Friday evening I was expecting a cosy climbing show with loads of lovely scenery.

Well, I got the lovely scenery, but that was about it. I spent most of the programme terrified that I was going to be witness to TV presenter and climbing novice Julia Bradbury plummeting to her death off the side of a cliff. I did calm down about it after a while, realising if that had happened I'm pretty sure I would have read about it in the newspapers before the show aired.

Basically, the programme followed Julia, pictured, as she tried to get to grips with mountain climbing under the guidance of professional rock climber Tim Emmett.

The documentary was part of the BBC's Ultimate Outdoors season, but after watching this I've decided I may just stay in for the rest of my life, or at least never go near a mountain.

Ultimate Rock Climb reminded me of a documentary I had once seen on an all-female group of sailors attempting to circumnavigate the world. In one particularly scary sequence, they were in the Southern Ocean with 50ft waves pounding their vessel.

I was watching it thinking, if I was on the boat I'd just be running round screaming, or maybe blowing the whistle on my life-jacket - neither of which would be particularly useful to the rest of the crew, I'm sure.

Anyway, when Julia got caught half way up a rock in Ultimate Rock Climb and found herself crouching in a natural cubby hole while she plucked up the courage to decide what to do next, I felt a similar sense of what would I do in that situation?'.

I think I would have just stayed there until a helicopter or passing climber rescued me, whichever came first, I wouldn't be fussy.

Julia, however, showed an incredible amount of bravery. She got herself out of the situation and made it to the summit.

But the funny thing about rock climbing is that people seem to give advice in bumper stickers: "Dangerous sports are not that hard - if you relax", stuff like that.

Having said that, that particular nugget came from a fella who started base jumping when he was 50!

Anyway, I don't care what age you are, anyone who does rock climbing has some bottle, and Julia really showed hers doing this programme.

After all, the thought of falling off the side of a mountain is enough to scare anyone, the thought of having a BBC crew there to witness it must be absolutely terrifying.