Channel 4 documentary, Epic Wales, showed us one of Wales' most brilliant castles from a new perspective tonight.
The opening episode of the six-part series sees a trio of climbing-loving castle maintenance experts who abseil down the side of Carreg Cennen Castle, the history of which you can find here, including the owners who bought it by 'accident.'
The 13th-century castle, which is near Llandeilo, sits nearly 300ft/90m above the River Cennen on a great limestone crag and has marvelous views.
These views are shown off brilliantly by the Channel 4 show, narrated by Cerys Matthews, as castle-loving pals Alex, Ben and Will put to use their abseiling skills to save Carreg Cennen's walls thanks to some pesky vegetation.
Bernard Llewellyn, the current owner of the castle and farmer, explained: "It is obviously a ruin, but still maintaining that ruin is still very, very important because this sort of building it is, because it's so exposed it deteriorates very, very rapidly. It needs a bit of an upkeep every now and again."
So after the official way of deciding who goes over the top to sort out some ivy which can push apart the stone walls - a quick game of rock, paper, scissors - we see the climbers, who run Highlife Rope Access and work on castles and cathedral across the country, get to work, but not before they carefully set up their ropes.
Alex Haslehurst of Highlife, says: "The challenges are finding safe places to attach the ropes to the building, obviously they're very old, [the] mortar's really old. You don't want to be pulling anything off. So you know, we need to make sure that everything that we attach to is absolutely solid."
You see the boys repointing the walls and picking out ivy and the drop is pretty hairy. But it doesn't put off them off admiring the view.
Will says, somehow while looking down from his exclusive view while dangling from a rope: "It's one of the more scenic castle walls that I've been on.
"Not many are on top of a massive cliff, it's great. I don't know when the last people to get this view would have been. But yeah, it really is a pretty stunning place to work."
Catch up with Epic Wales: Valleys, Mountains and Coasts on All4 now and it continues next Friday at 8pm.
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