Climbing the epic Am Buachaille sea stack
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Am Buachaille, aka The Shepherd, is one of the classic "Big 3" sea stacks located in the far north west of Scotland along with the Old Men of Stoer and Hoy. With it's four-mile walk-in from Blairmore, followed by a tricksome descent and approach, culminating with a "character building" swim across a 15 metre channel of water exposed only at low tide, this Old Man is considered to be the most remote and serious of them all. No walking to the base or setting up a tyrolean traverse on this Torridonian sandstone 50 metre high behemoth...
Filmmaker David Linnett explains: "It was a memorable day spent with Pembroke activists and fellow sea-stack baggers Henry Castle and Paul Donnithorne. We clambered up the excellent 3* VS called Landward Face route in perfect weather on one of the best adventure routes in the UK, before collapsing on the beautiful Sandwood Bay beach. The entertainment was duly recorded and featuring the beautiful walk-in, approach and swim, sandstone sea stack shenanigans, fearsome fulmers, eye-popping exposure plus some aerial drone footage this is the story of a memorable day out by the seaside!"
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this was the most wholesome and relaxing thing i've ever seen
Joseph Clifford
Really ?
I m sorry for you
@@gregood it's called hyperbole man xD
legend has it that they're still up there
It’s a thorough miracle every inch isn’t covered by bird crap
my 8th wonder of the world-can’t wait to climb.
that was absolutely spectacular. it embodies everything i love about climbing
Lovely...and very romantic.
this video is truly the epitome of my perfect relaxed climbing day, thanks so much for sharing!!! So beautiful
I'm going to Scotland next month with some friends and this is high on our list. Beautiful video, really stoked for the adventure!
Thanks to all involved. Watching it made me relaxed and happy. Very nice.
10/10 that approach shows true grip
Grand day out with friends, enjoying the climbing, the weather and the company! Very relaxing video :)
Yes, I agree with all this people and their style doing climbing, nice, very nice report and absolutely nice the place where they are, great job!!!!! congratulation!!!!!!
What a beautiful adventures...
Nice story, very good film works.
Pretty climb. The face around the corner to the left looks really interesting.
That thing looks awesome!
Pip-pip & cheerio ! 😁🤙 Solid production ! showing great strides & as always great stuff - ! solid climbing on solid turff at the ends of the earth ! Be ever-so well here's to ya'~ BRAVO ! ~
Hola gracias por compartir esas grandes asañas y logros, m gusta ver climbing, los felicito a todos. Sigan compartiendo x favor. Bendiciones.
That thing truly is epic!
amazing job! Thanks for posting
Really nice to see climbers that are not hanging upside down on one finger. This sort of climbing really has very little to do with the cerebral ascetics who climb 9a+ with lots of bolts. Where you climb is at least as important as what you climb.
"Where you climb..." Exactly. And ethical climbing is to stop as soon as you see the first wildlife you disturb with their offspring. No matter if it's falcons, eagles or "just" seagulls.
I see it more as mountaineering than as sport climbing, so the degree can also be defined as relatively high.
Yet, in spite of that, my recommendation bar is filled with those ascetics, who, at the end of this video, will garner my attention
chaosengine huh? why? Like, yeah, don’t want to disturb the 10th to last nest of condors but... any all wildlife? You know everything is going to burn when the sun blows up in a few billion years?right? Like yeah don’t want to make the earth a shithole(I know we pretty much are) I mean ideally)) but everything’s just not that precious. Unreasonable standards like yours only result in utter disregard(no that’s not quite the extent we’re at)
chaosengine oh, you were joking huh? Ha! Good one
looks like a good place to perform a free solo.
no walk off
That looks like a very pleasant day out 😁
Good job kids!!! ... greetings from California
RIP Tom. The finest of them all.
Amazing production, really serene. Makes me wish to be there!
What an adventure!!
Man, I want to fly over, just for this route.
Where is it just asking probably never want to climb it
@@thomasosman1692 Not sure exactly, but sounds like somewhere on the west coast of the British isles.
Brilliant
Many thanks for taking the time to post some kind comments as it is muchly appreciated. Also many apologies to all the Gaelic speakers out there as having been put right on the correct pronunciation of Am Buachaille a few times, I believe Buachaille is pronounced Boo-kle! Being Bristol based I'm afraid my talent for Gaelic has never been my strongest point... :-) Happy Climbing! Dave
Nice climb chaps how's the abseil back off is there plenty of decent tat to clip or did you leave your own wasters?
relaxed climbing is the best climbing
the journey is as much important as the arrival
If I had on a hat, I'd take it off to these men.
Everyone, put on your takin'-off caps.
beautiful!
Nice film. Did it in 1996 as one of our three stacks in three days. It was very scary as there was a howling gale.
Super nice climbing . Thanks for uploading this! It's interesting to see that there are no regulations in place to protect the wildlife when they have hatchlings...
beautiful
Good friends. I hope everyone can get along well and get old together.
Nice one Henry
this is a stunning rock
great video wish it showed more technical trad placement.
Cool
Shit load of tat! Deserves a proper anchor. Great vid but epic moderate climb!
The approach was a 9a+
Masya Allah
Very nice place
Safety First
For real, though. Why not just shove a couple bolts at the top. Would be a lot less intrusive than all that shite up there.
Two slings (the second is just there for redundancy) and maillons should be all that’s needed. I guess all the stuff accumulated over time with every rope team adding a new piece once the old ones looked dubious but still kept “just in case”.
@@Mike-oz4cv I think that is his point. It is just continuing to accumulate litter due to old slings not being safe, or presumed so. I see his point. Where I climb, the popular gear routes have the same problems at places. Trees/rocks littered with old gear.
Does anyone know the name of the song played during the credits? I can't find it anywhere!
Wow Climb..
Good climb guys, don't climb, but enjoy watching. Have you guys climbed the 'sea stack' at the Cliffs of Moher?
4:17 reminds me of GIRP.
how high is this route?
For me the descent would be tougher. You are looking down the whole way. I want descent vids.
how was the return crossing?? Did you have to rush at all to beat the tide??
also, this is just totally awesome! a perfect day of climbing in my opinion.
picnic course......
It looked very easy, what is its difficulty?
3* VS in the description, but that exposure....
Are those white stuff seagull poop or chalk?
Bit worried, second man on the string on Pitch 2 used his knee....naughty....but nice bit of climbing non-the-less.......
what?
Apparently British trad climbers are allowed to use their knees. At least Matt Groom from Epic TV said so once.
hi
Boo-kale? You really need to practice your pronunciation.
The video itself is very very enjoyable.Well done.
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ich frage mich was die alten Zausel im Naturschutzgebiet zu suchen hatten
Uber waffle weinerdoodle
Sadly you did not care about the wildlife, birds nets and newborns... dislike, good climbing tho, would love to climb there if it was out of season for the birds!
Agreed! No respect for the birds there
Nice! But I think you did a far better job of climbing it than pronouncing it. 😁
They really should just bolt it, it'd be a improvement to the visual impact of that rats nest.
Gwyn Higgins You are I hope joking if not you do not understand Trad climbing.
Agreed to some extent, its an absolute mess and actually very visible from afar.
@@MrAgarnham I get the argument to leave the rock as it is. But if you're going to leave shit up there permanently, just put some bolts in. Looks a lot cleaner
@@martinbarnett4210 I am a young Trad Climber in the US, so the ethics I see at my crags are probably different than what you are used to. I am just expressing my opinion about the visual impact of all that rope.
Gwyn Higgins Sure I see your point about the visual impact. Someone does really need to ascend the route and junk all the old ‘tat’ as I call it and reinstate a new abseil sling or two and new carabiner to keep it trad, there is no need for a bolt then. If I lived closer to it I would do that but I live 500 miles away.
Oh my, this brings back memories of my West Highland Way + Cape Wrath Trail....
EDIT: Why did you keep climbing when there are birds nesting? Very rude and unethical. And stupid. And you call yourself mountaineers? Shame!
yikes who's ruffled your feathers
Why has it an irish name? And its proper pronunciation is (boo-col) not (boo kale)
It has a Gaelic (Gaidhlig) name because it is of the coast of Sutherland.
alistair smeaton Gaelic is the irish word for irish
@@toomuch9762 yes that is true. But the related language spoken in the north west of Scotland is also written Gaelic (in English) . In this context am buichaille is gaidhlig not Irish.
Do you know much about the history of Scotland and Ireland? Your pronounciation is closer than that butchered attempt by those English lads but you seem to have little grasp of where Gaelic (Gah-lic in Scotland, not Gay-lic as in Ireland) is spoken.
Pete is never wrong buachaille is irish for boy or herdsman, mór is irish for big or great! You do realise the irish brought the language to Scotland right?
beautiful
beautiful