Caravan owners will be well aware that they are much better equipped to deal with extreme weather than campers, but a British explorer has shown just how vulnerable some tents can be.
In a special test for ITV’s Daybreak programme, Sir Ranulph Fiennes visited a Shropshire caravan site earlier this month (June 3rd) to subject three tents to an extreme experiment, Shropshire Live reports.
Six visitors, including two caravan owners, were invited to erect a low-cost pop-up tent, a traditional family tent and a state-of-the-art inflatable tent at Stanmore Hall Touring Park in Bridgnorth.
Sir Ranulph then blasted the three tents with a pressure washer to recreate a typical summer thunderstorm and the results varied wildly.
Edward Goddard, managing director of Morris Leisure, the owners of Stanmore Hall, said: “We are anticipating a bumper summer with even more British people than last year set to spend their holidays at home.”
Sir Ranulph added that he enjoyed his visit to Shropshire, which he described as “a really great place” and the famous explorer praised the peaceful setting and layout of Stanmore Hall.
