the then-college junior was attempting sardinia's mad man's journey. >> this is by far the hardest i'vever attempted. >> reporter: sasha lives for cliffs so steep, so remote, they seem impossible for any human to conquer. >> sasha is definitely the forefront of female rock climbers. she's certainly one of the best in the world. >> reporter: with a camera crew in tow and ed jumaren, they took their shot. >> i'm almost invincible today. fy fall, i'll be falling fearlessly. i came over the ledge with my left hand. we made it! there's eddy's face with a big smile. all we could articulate was, whoo-hoo! >> reporter: sasha rates that climb as one of the most transformative in her life. her father had died suddenly just two months earlier. >> you know what's special about being here is that he's italian. i know that he would -- if he was around, he'd pull out the map and be like, this is where the family's from! it really makes you feel like life is really sacred. the main thing that has increased in the last three years is my confidence in myself. >> reporter: this time that confidence is pus

established by two scientists gianni pes and michael who used blue lines to chart demographic data in sardinia their two thousand and four landmark study identified suddenly as neuro province as a region with an extraordinary high concentration of male centenarians denoted by their blue lines since then scientists have expanded the blue zone concept from sadhana to include a canal in japan nicoya costa rica icaria greece and loma linda california the question what can be learned from the high concentration of centenarians living in our charlie. actually is part of what's known as the challender coast of italy situated one hundred four kilometers south of naples. is a rugged picture perfect region that features mountaintop villages that spill out to the mediterranean sea residents spend a lot of the time outdoors here working the land and walking nearly all the time. the region has become synonymous for good health rich in fresh produce passed on of oil and rosemary. this is where the so-called mediterranean diet was first scientifically studied by american scientists i'm so. he keys landmark s

that's right in print bigger showers and probably thunderstorms at least for a day or so maybe in sardinia and corsica but they also disappear will head south towards sicily then this whole area of central eastern europe is a rather drier affair eventually these cold a cold dry air has one and nothing much else to talk about except the feed from the south giving it warms to paris and london the next day or so that's the size of all this we see a lot of cloud recently along the coast of mauritania and morocco and it has given spotty rain is the wet time the ever martina the last great deal of cloud. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. i just want to make sure all of our audience is on the same page whether online to produce to us citizens here and what puts people of iraq by one and the same or if you join us on say i was never put a file then look at differently because i'm dr going all the people that i'm a watch is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag a.j. stream and one of their pitches might make the next show join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. again let's take