Inis Mór: a trad climbing trip to the edge
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- Опубліковано 17 січ 2019
- BMC ambassador and pro-climber Steve McClure teams up with Irish legend Ricky Bell for a mission to the wild island of Inis Mór, off the coast of Ireland. The sheer cliffs are famous for their unrelenting sport routes, but can they succeed in their trad-climbing mission?
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I went to Inis Mor exploring the rock climbing potential in September 2017. I don't have time to be much of a climber but do have a geography degree from many years ago so maybe I can explain why the place could be so amazing for sport climbing.
The island is one huge canted slab of Carboniferous limestone about 10 miles long and 2-3 miles wide, with just some grass and a few houses on top. On the eastern (facing Ireland) side the limestone dips smoothly into the sea, but on the western (facing the Atlantic Ocean) side there is a continuous line of cliffs from the top to bottom of the island. At the highest point, near the Dun Aonghasa prehistoric hill fort, the cliffs are about 100m high. On the west coast there's only one place where you can access sea level by foot - at the Serpent's Lair where they did the Red Bull cliff diving. The limestone varies a lot in how fractured it is, which determines how resistant to erosion it is. On the top couple of miles of the west coast coast the rock is very fractured and not very solid and so the cliffs are only vertical. But further down the west coast the rock has far fewer flaws and thus much more structural integrity. The ocean breaks along the bottom of the cliffs and dissolves the limestone (very slowly) by chemical weathering, obviously more at the bottom (more waves and spray) than further up the face. Thus it naturally ends up overhanging. I think the winter storms must also remove loose rock. Where there were natural recesses the waves became more concentrated causing chemical erosion to occur faster, with the result that you end up with the cave like shapes mentioned in the video where the solid rock, 50 metres high, overhangs continuously by 30 degrees. Which to me looked like awesome places for high level sport climbing projecting.
thanks for the analysis! really sounds like an amazing place to visit, especially as a geologist like yourself! would the cliffs of moher be of a similar composition then as the ones of inis mor that you described? makes me a bit sad that i spent over two years in ireland when i was in school on the east side and actually went to galway for a long weekend trip but wasn't a climber back then and never knew just how beautiful that side of the island really is. but it's never too late to return!
@@stoli288 Hi the cliffs of Moher are super impressive to look at but I looking at the photos I don't think the rock is very good quality - but I've never been there so who knows. I loved Galway - great city - so much amazing music and Gaelic culture! When I wrote the chunk above I was well tired and it's a bit dry but Inis Mor as a place is just awesome!!! I absolutely loved it there. I don't think I'll ever have the time or talent to climb the hard sport routes but there is loads of easier climbing and loads of overhanging bouldering etc etc
wow! thanks! Must be super-interesting going climbing with you. Would love to hear how all those weird formations and features came to be! I think there is seriously a niche - "geology for climbers" - that needs filling with content :)
Why is it that the rock out there is so perfectly rectangular with it's fracturing patterns? Never seen limestone with so many right angles like that before.
@@PMennard Thank you. I think geological time is just amazing - how over thousands and tens of thousands of years nature slowly and persistently shapes the rock then a human being comes along and in a few hours find a pattern in the holds and makes a climb and gives it a name.
The Earth never ceases to amaze me. I had never seen this island and it's so much nice and flat rock until the big jump into the ocean. So nice.
superb little film, nicely shot, what a wonderful place, thanks for exposing it to the world of climbing
Thanks - it does look like an amazing place, doesn't it!
Met Ricky a few times at my climbing gym in Dublin, such a lovely friendly soul!
Congratulations to Ricky & Steve for this spectacular discovery & for keeping us inspired!!
Beautiful location and beautifully shot. Steve and Ricky seem like great, relaxed dudes to climb with.
Awesome! Fantastic exploring. Best of luck for the future of climbing on Inis Mor!
What an amazing place. Those walls looks so beautiful and inviting. Absolutely incredible.
Absolutely inspiring! Can't wait to climb in this place one day!
that's the summer climbing planned ;) Thanks Guys, Thanks Ricky, legend.
SUPERB - beautifully filmed. Thank you
This place is impressive. I'm a climber myself and I'm afraid of height (but I feel secure when I'm climbing safely). I have been once to visit the Cliffs of Moher, but I think these are even more impressive! I was so scared to look down, I was laying completely on the ground like a worm, with just my head over the edge. You need to go there and see yourself, I will never forget.
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I wonder why no one complains about bolted route on inis mòr, if you bolted anything in the island of Ireland people would lose it at you. They have this attitude that you should go to Spain to sport climb. On another notes this rock looks bulletproof and fun.
Just beautiful.
Thanks
Loved this film.
Nice.. this is really close to where I grew up. I would love to see more sport routes put up there (a few 6a-7a for me please)
Already plenty of 7s
Went there a few years ago to go cliff diving, but now it looks like the climbing is the reason to go!
Did you just jumped off the top?
Steve seems to be a really awesome climbing partner ;-)
Ithe inish isands is some of the most magical places i've been to. I recomend to go there in november to march.
Jan Sveen ya man west coast of ireland is beautiful also
It is one of the most amazing places on the earth.
this is mega! awesome job!!
beautiful!!
Amazing discovery
Been there, wonderful site for climbing!!
Lovely stuff
Beautiful job
Amazing place :o
oh man, this is spectacular.
The Future is NOW!! MIND BLOWING!!!
Outstanding
This place just looks unreal. So dramatic being right on the sea.
Amazing. Very very beauty view
That looks awesome 👌
What an awesome spectacle. Fantastic climbing location as well. What a great place to collect building stones. 🤣 I’m an armature stone mason. Coastal BC Canada has mostly lots of hard to work granite. “Bullet-like limestone, almost like granite.” Ha!
Wow amazing place 👍
Could be a motivational analogy for the struggle for success.
the aerial shot at 5:33 is gorgeous
Nice view!
Very nice video ! hope to climb here one day
WONDERFUL
Great video
🍀WOW!, so beautiful
I always knew the Irish landscape was full of nature beings, but I didn't realise the landscape is able to generate musical sounds as well. Those rocks are full of piano sounds, guitar sounds, orchestral sounds, wonderful . . .
So beautiful! I want to climb the place and photograph it lol
How insane does that background look from 5:41 to 5:52
Surfing AllDay trippy as fuck 😂
You are No.1!
outrageous place. How does this place even exist.
Is there any books with these routes mapped out on them?
Layered piece of cake..... Mile on Mile
It looks like stainless steel bolts??
I wonder if the bolts will last long.. being right there on the sea.
Climbing looks amazing!!
I don't believe stainless steel rusts
@@johnnypurcell9908
Ever been to Thailand?
@@WilliamsSkilliams No I haven't
@@johnnypurcell9908 Everything can rust.
All marine grade stainless steel. Will last decades. There are several factors to the issues in Thailand that don't apply here.
How's the water? Looks Frigid!
6:43 welcome
11:40 - Does Steve climb without tied shoelaces? :)
👏👏👏👏👏
Did he say Big Blocks like granite? Sounds like Devils Lakes in Baraboo Wisconsin or blue Mounds in Minnesota and it looks like it too to a certain degree
he says limestone with big blocks LIKE granite. Sure looks amazing!
@@derekfield5099 oh I just saw the the mistake I corrected it thank you though.
Chad right on man, have a good one!
Looks amazing, but i recon those expansion bolts won't last so long. For sustainability maybe TI is the way to go
All marine grade stainless steel. They'll last decades.
This lifestyle is become increasingly popular in the age of social distancing
Bro if he fell at 4:58 that would be one hell of a whipper.
los gigantos cliff on teneryfe over 600 m.
What is the bgm?
and now....: CLIFFS of MOHER ! (without the ropes)...:-)
loucura total
Please tell Google location of where this place is
You can find it here: www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/inishmore-1369#maps
I really really really really wanna know why Steve never never never never is to be seen with laced up climbing shoes ???
That place looks like a future high tech climbing resort, quick someone throw half a billion at it and put it on the map.
Could you comment on the kind of hardware you are installing? Are you using titanium, or marine grade stainless?
Amazing rock, amazing place. Best of luck finding the best lines, and keep safe!
Marine grade stainless
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Can I build my very own villa by buying land here
GO FOLLOW Magnus Midtbø
looks hella runout
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no helmet ! +_-
3:24 bolt right next to a crack
So?
Arran Deakin usually if theres an obvious place for gear in the middle of a sport rout you don't bolt it and just bring a single cam or nut.
@@totallyfake2852 not in the UK or Europe, I don't even think that's the ethic in the US anymore.
@@zoolook8a Eh I don't really get outside much but I was just making a suggestion to what the original commenter might have been thinking.
bach klavier
Un hijo así hubiera vendido 😃
Not many fat people into climbing , well not for long ...I’d end up flat ...
Did they get permission to Bolt on the Island?
There is always land owners.
They did.
Really annoying background music. Can hardly hear or understand what you are saying. Ditch it.!
I think you are getting to the age where your ears are unable to hear certain frequencies clearly.
Alongside base jumping this has to be one of most stupidest sports imaginable.
EML Media what makes you say that
@@dwgoutdoors831 what do you think now, hazard a guess, because clearly climbing as opposed to thinking is obviously your strength?
EML Media was just curious as to why you said it, was not judging or insulting you in anyway.