We Moved Millions Of Stones on a Mountain. This Happened
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- This week Bernard Burke got some great footage of our work on the cone section of Croagh Patrick, Co. Mayo, Ireland. I thought it deserved its own video. As the team approaches its third anniversary on the mountain we are working hard to complete the work on the cone. This has been the most challenging but rewarding part of the whole project.
Additional archive drone footage by Frank McMahon.
Music:
The Thick of It - Jon Bjork.
Croagh Patrick is renowned for its Pilgrimage in honour of Saint Patrick, Ireland's patron saint. It was on the summit of the mountain that Saint Patrick fasted for forty days in 441 AD. The Reek as it’s known, attracts about 1 million pilgrims, many of whom spend the last Sunday in July climbing to the summit in honour of St Patrick.
Thanks for explaining this. I went to Ireland and marveled at the stone walls hemming in sheep pastures and bordering roads. The castles, and ancient beehive shaped buildings. The Irish are masters of stone work. This is amazing.
Thank you I was wondering............................ WHY?..............................
A really incredible feat, and a shed load of hard, physical work. The whole group of you are 'Resilience champions'. Thankyou Guys - it will help so many people.
Very generous of you to say. Thank you
Completely agree, so much time and effort spent doing this properly so it not only fits in with the landscape but looks like it has already stood the test of time, and if pathways could talk it would have a million stories.
@@matty4143 Thank you for saying that!
@@matty4143 my dad and his school friends used to be sent up by the Brothers and Priests with donkeys to carry the stones back up...in the 40s and early 50s, also their parents did the same and their grandparents
You need a placard with your names in it! A truly mountainous gift you've given to the present and future folks. Congratulations good Souls much respect and love.
Thank you very much! Very kind of you to say
The scenery is so beautiful. Our ancestors created many roads and paths to follow. Great job.
Thank you!
Amazing work, I haven't been on top in 25 years cos of bad knees, but thanks to these great men I reckon I'll get there one more time, absolute legends,
Thanks a lot, I hope you do
Looks like a sluice..should contribute to future landslides.
Top or bottom as long as you get there
I have dodgy knees meself. They give out around Base Camp(bells)
Spectacular project and video. Another great reason to go back to Ireland. Love Ireland.
Thank you!!
Outstanding work....makes me want to come over and climb it 🥰😊
You should!
There is no climbing involved. It a walk. There's an ice cream van at the top.
Wow a masterpiece,well done to all involved.
I have walked that mountain 3 times,the second time my knees were almost destroyed coming down,the last time we walked it was a vast improvement, I'm 70 I used to say I'd never walk it again, now its still no cake walk but Very do able congratulations to everyone involved, especially the people who did the work
Many thanks John. Hope you make it up there again soon
Incredible work , a massive thank you to all who contributed to this project 🙃
Our pleasure!
Dry stone wall building is an addiction.
Looks great
Is sliding down the scree on your arse not an opinion anymore? That was the best bit 😁
You got an opinion without an option there. Universe trying to tell you something.
I have done it 4 times and enjoyed every minute
Good stuff!!
This stair case will be around for a fair bit longer than anyone expects I think. I think this path will last for like 100 years with minimal maintenance from now on. Incredible work too. And very generous of all of you to put in your time and effort for something that makes strangers safer and happier. Truly a work of selflessness and community care. Bless you all?
Thank you very much!!
Only a hundred years? I can see it being there forever. Now and then a little bit of maintenance but stone structures last for millenia.
@@helenaville5939 the amount of tourists and walkers can cause it to degrade very quickly it should be annual maintenance so it never gets so neglected again...
@@rachelLadyD You seem to be unaware that it has just been constructed. There was no stairs structure there before it. This makes your statement "so it never gets neglected again" sound a bit bizarre.
Also, I'm thinking of the stone steps on the Skellig Rock which have survived for many hundreds of years despite many tourists using them. They too are just stones like this new structure on Croagh Patrick. People don't seem to realize that stone structures last for hundreds, even thousands, of years - even with people walking on them.
You are so right!@@rachelLadyD
I think the path is a work of art. Well done! Greetings from Michigan.
Many thanks Ted!
Total respect to the team and in time a
Wonderful help it will help to stabilise. great help the base dig.
On a weather beaten hillside sun rain frost and wind move
Stone. about but maintenance is easy compared the laying the walkway first time
The strength of the Irish people to work in unity on a project
They must have had soul destroying days on there
But their sense of humour will have prevailed god will have blessed them again and again
Thanks a million Brendan
So beautiful !! What a difference the markers make on each side of the path - looks much safer and easier to climb !!
Thank you for much!!
Well done to your team effort 👌 and with the drone footage over the climb ,you can see how far you come ❤.
What a worth while achievement to see it finished next year.
And a great place for a building on the summit 😀 👍.
Such wonderful views 💚😍💚😍
Thanks a million. See you up here next year
Mind blowing that ye could stick it out for so long like that, beautiful work too
Thank you very much!
Why are you misusing the old form of the???
Absolutely astonishing work ,great job done respect to all the dedicate team involved.
Awesome thanks!
Mayo's equilivant of the great wall! Well done, unreal piece of work
😂
Was thinking the same myself!!
Well done you people 👏👍
Thank you Tony!
Well done David Doyle and team. Ye did a fantastic job 👏👏
Why are you misusing the old form of the???
@@ArghansMordonMarghek people from Mayo do that
@@rachelLadyD . I take it you’re not talking about the pale whitish loveliness, that is excellent on chips, so you must mean county mayo???
wow well done, good to see they have started maintenance and maintaining the paths again. The primary school teachers in Westport used to get the school boys to sort the stones and replace them , they used donkeys to carry the stones back up the mountain after walkers caused them to subside or erode. I think they preferred being free up the mountain to be stuck in the class room in fairness..my dad is in his 80s now
I have a friend who worked for the national Trust in Scotland laying stones on Ben nevis. It's definitely an art form doing this.
Wow! Beautiful! Thank you for your work and sharing!
You’re welcome! Thanks for your kind words:)
Wow, Canadian here. I climbed it 30 years ago and I'll have to return to check out the incredible work! Well done.
Thank you, come back soon!
Wonderful work.I think you’ve made the path look beautiful too, as befitting this shrine. The less hardy will be able to make the journey to the top in safety. Well Done to everyone for this incredible feat.
Thank you! Cheers!
Great work guy's. That look's like a project from the heart and the back and ooh the knees!
Hope the locals rewarded you all with cups of tea and sandwiches.
Pints in Campbell’s would be nicer ;-)
That was spectacular! The effort inputted is not lost on me. My gosh you guys (and gals) did, well just dang awesome!!
Thank you very much Scott! Hope you can some visit some time
@@climbthereek it's probably an actual possibility. We've done Ireland, Germany, Italy, Romania, France. I'll put it on our wishlist!
Please do!!
@@scottmichael3745
Woh this work looks amazing! Super fun video also :)
Thank you so much. Feel free to share :)
Absolutely amazing graft gone into this, fair play to everyone involved! Grá mór!
Cheers pal 👍
Hell yeah, dudes rock!
Brilliant work a credit to the team . Must get there .Great stuff.
Please do!
Wow! Thanks for showing!
You’re welcome ☺️
Incredible work. This is a game changer 🎉🎉😍😍
Thanks a million:)
Absolutely Herculean effort. Incredible feat. You did the almost impossible. Huge congratulations!
Cheers Danny
Brilliant ........ well done !!!!!
Thanks!
This is a tremendous achievement. Congratulations to everyone involved.
What a great piece of much needed work. Congratulations to all involved.
Thank you very much!
I've climbed it numerous times but many many years ago I ran the entire Tochar Padraig for charity and set a record for it. Needless to say, I needed a fair bit of rehydration in Campbell's when I arrived in covered in sweat!!!!
I want to come climb it! Amazing accomplishment
Thank you!
I,m impressed but also sad I,m glad I climbed Croagh Patrick when it was untouched.
It was never untouched.
@@helenaville5939you knew what he meant.
Amazing video. Amazing bit of work!
Thanks a lot!
Monumental job congratulations to everyone involved
Thank you!
Well done, guys!
Thanks a million!
Superb footage giving a great sense of the amount of work that was needed to move all that stone and create that amazing corridor of steps👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Wow - incredible work, bound to make the climb a lot safer.
I didn't enjoy my last day on the Reek, but this might be enough to persuade me to do it again.
Congartulations on a superb achievement!
Thanks a million! Do try it again soon :)
Mad lads 🔥 (Incidentally, I'm about 40 mins from the place there. It's so so beautiful)
Thank you so much!
You’re most welcome!
Very impressive. I dread to think of the huge amount of hard work that went into it. I half-expect to see it in the next Star Wars film😂😂😂
🙌
Class - great video showing the great work!
Cheers Tom
Incredible! Well done to the great team! Truly fantastic achievement!
My wish is that when the path building is eventually finished it would be marvellous if some planting was done to kick start a return of the natural vegetation, the planting itself would also greatly aid in demarcating the new mountain path from the mountain, preserving what has been achieved, sustaining both
Thank You!
That’s the plan Declan. Subscribe and stay tuned to follow our progress in the coming months & years!
That’s incredible! Climbed this barefoot in 2014 on pilgrimage and those loose stones were rather precarious!
You’ll have to come back and do it again now!
Incredible dedication, I managed to have a shower today
😂
"Thank you for watching" ? Thank you for building! !
Thank you for saying!
What an accomplishment. Well done all, well done indeed and thank you.
Thank you!
Amazing work
Cheers!!
Truly amazing! Great respect for you all involved and for you hard work!
Thank you so much!
Beautiful
Thank you!
Hard physical labor ... thank you ...
It's not the climb that was hard that held me back but the stone in me shoe.. Phóist go hálainn . Diá dháoibh Béannachtaí agus Méas.. 🙏🇮🇪🙏
Go raibh mile maith agat!
Brilliant video!
Glad you liked it Shayni! Going to eat my words and make a short from it today ;-)
Amazing can't wait to climb it again 🙌
Thanks Katie! ♥️
Working there is like being between a rock and a hard place.
Amazing!
I’m totally against this act of vandalism.
😂😂😂😂
next we’ll have a nice concrete steps or maybe a cable car.
Great job! It will definitely help with erosion. It's also beautiful natural stonework. (Question: When are you starting on the Louisburgh side? 😉)
Thanks for your kind words. There are no plans at present to put another path up the Reek. We encourage all walkers and pilgrims to use the path from Murrisk
Watched it twice. I would have given two likes aswell but I'll just give ye lads two thumbs up! Ni neart go chur le cheile! As we say down in these parts.
Cheers Fionn! Is fear uafásach tú do na ispíní!
Just saw this on the rté.
Didn't know about the new path,what an amazing job.
New subscriber here and I'd reckon many more will follow suite
Thank you very much man!
Very nice, indeed.
Thank you kindly
Let's know when you stick in the escalator 😋
Great work! Surely helps those who do it barefoot ❤️
Yes it does!
There should be a plaque erected to give credit to those that toiled for years to complete this work.
We’d settle for a pint!
This is amazing! You should also build some cool statues along the way!
Spectacular
Great drone footage.
Glad you enjoyed it
Super
rock on!!!!
Cheers
ISAIAH 57:14, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, remove [every] obstacle from My people’s way.”OUTSTANDING GOOD WORKS PathFinders‼️
Thank you!!
holy moly!
Excellent. I thought this might be a smallish mountain (or damn great hilltop) in Turkey, one of those suspected of harboring an Ice-age period construction cousin to Gobekli Tepe.
The mountain top is covered with a mound of tens of thousands of stone blocks. That seems to serve as a very effective impediment to any but the most Determined and Sustained attempts at looting. And since it is not at all clear that there is actually any tomb or pit or horde or even an abandoned latrine to loot... No one seems to have bothered.
Suggests a whole new approach to security.
You watch a video of an amazing feat and you comment about some other item entirely. 😂😂😂😂
@@helenaville5939 Right, I'm not finished. Hope I didn't ruin your day.
Beautiful! How long did it take to achieve this? How many artists, volunteers and landscape designers worked on it?
Nearly three years to date. More information in this video ua-cam.com/video/bhtL7RIwfPQ/v-deo.htmlsi=WImpfG8BnySYnyxf :)
So yall are basically building the Seven Thousand Steps to High Hrothgar but in real life 😆
Amen
Now, can somebody please clean the toilet up there.
I love trail maintenance, but two questions:
- Where is this?
- What is the purpose of the rock side wall "that will need to be regularly maintained"?
Croagh Patrick, Co. Mayo, Ireland
This video answers your questions about the walls
ua-cam.com/video/ecRY42KElWM/v-deo.html
I'm wondering if the steps are mortared, or just laid on a bed of prepared rubble or what. This is a magnificent work; Much praise and thanks to all who participated!
No mortar or imported material. Only what we find on the mountain
In a 1000 years from now, as long as there is no major earth shattering event, There's going to be a civilization in awe of this unique trail that's been unearthed, just like we today look at egypts pyramids or stonehenge, with awe and wonder and confusion about how it got there.
Very kind of you to say ☺️
It's an achievement of sorts, but I think that it may have looked better before your messing, and that saint guy, if he ever existed, would be spitting mad.
100% lads, leave no stone unturned.
Would just like to say they were no stones hurt in the making of this path .
😂
Then I can take it off my to-do (again) list now.
spring snw melt and run-off happens in big pulses which is going to wreak havoc on this thing.
Ok when you started thinking you're Lord of the rings I just went on to the next bloody video 😂
Well done!!! Super work
Thank you! Cheers!
That will be a nice waterfall :)
It was!
impressive, how long did it take you to build it?
Almost three years to date
A lot of work, really incredible! Only one question: what about erosion?
We have carried out the work to combat the erosion caused by walkers.
@@climbthereek Great! That makes all the work so valuable!
Great work. Does the path become a creek during Rain, or snowmelt ?
No, we have adequate drainage. The surfacing sometimes need to be replaced after heavy rains
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Very good but my question is this. Is this what people wanted? Did they want the walls hemming them in? It's like being in some landscaped garden.
Yes. The vast majority of people knew something needed to be done. The mountain was eroding rapidly from the volume of people climbing it every year. It was unsustainable. It was also very dangerous as people were walking on loose scree and falling and hurting themselves regularly. That is now a rare occurrence. And the bare eroded areas are being returned to nature. The path is 2m wide and constructed only with materials found on the mountain. 1000’s of people pass us daily and 99.9% are super positive about the project.
@@climbthereek Ah, thanks for the explanation. For the most part sounds very good. I still do wonder about that wall.
@WyeExplorer The stone pitching (steps) works under compression. The lateral compression the walls provide are an essential part of the picture. Most places they are no more than ankle or waist height.
These are also retaining walls holding back tonnes and tonnes of stone. I hope you can visit and see for yourself Ireland’s busiest mountain path :)
@@climbthereek I'm learning. Thanks.