He has become famous throughout the
United Kingdom for his efforts to clean up the countryside, most notably on
Ben Nevis in
Scotland,
Snowdon in
Wales and
Scafell Pike in
England. It started with him quietly cleaning his own village of litter and went on from there. Slowly the media picked up on his efforts and he has been featured in numerous newspaper articles and TV and radio shows including the
Richard & Judy Show on
Channel 4, the
BBC's
Countryfile and the
Jeremy Vine Show. On 4 September 2006,
The Daily Telegraph described Kevan as "the unlikely new hero of the environmental lobby".
The Independent stated in one of its leaders in 2005 that "Mr Kevan thus follows in the footsteps of others who have decided something must be done and done it. One thinks of
Florence Nightingale,
Albert Schweitzer,
Bob Geldof,
Diana, Princess of Wales...". At the end of 2005,
Stephen Jardine of the
Edinburgh Evening News stated that Robin Kevan was his choice for Man of the Year and concluded: "Britain needs more people like Rob the Rubbish who recognise enough is enough and are prepared to take responsibility for doing something about it." In October 2006 he was taken on a trek to
Mount Everest by Travel and Trek to clean up to the
base camp of the world's highest
mountain. In 2007 he appeared on the
BBC's documentary series
Mountain presented by
Griff Rhys Jones in which it highlighted his work in cleaning up Snowdon in
Wales. In the book which accompanied the series Jones said, "Rob proved to be an unnervingly delightful chap. He disliked litter so he had put on a day-glo jacket, taken up his claw stick and, like some medieval holy man, dedicated his life to wandering the wild places on behalf of us sinners. And he had a jacket for me too. It said, 'Griff the Garbage'". ==References==