Just 7 years after seeing this for the first time (and many many more times in between) I’ve finally booked my train ticket to Lairg - in search of Kearvaig and Suilven! Can’t wait :)
I’m watching this at work on a break. I work in a poor part of Los Angeles, this reality couldn’t be further from my own. But it was a good escape. Thank you.
By only basic amenities, does he mean, in the cupboard, you'll just find standard Blends or perhaps Single Malts bottled at 40% abv, chill filtered and E150a colouring?
What a great video. One year ago I've backpacked through Scotland for about 3 months. I set myself the challenge to spend as many nights in as many different bothies as possible. Went up to 50 nights in 42 different huts. I absolutely loved my time doing so. I moved around by hiking and hitchhiking and the feeling to step through a door of a bothy for the first time is amazing. I'll be back in a few weeks to spend another 5 weeks in this wonderful country. Really looking forward to it. Cheers
Hi Alastair thanks for this video during lockdown it keeps me sain and lets me plan adventures in my head I have also read Moods of Future Joys and Thunder and Sunshine again the only books I have read twice in my life .so thanks again and stay safe.
I've watched this film a few times over the years. Right now its helping me through the Coronavirus pandemic. I have to stay at home but I can still dream. Thanks ❤
I’m not a cyclist these days, walking is my limit. Your Hx of the bothy was something I’ve never thought about? Really like your being. Video was very inspiring indeed. My walks I’ve started to add to UA-cam, Scotland has some stunning remote vistas and your bike destinations are drawing me to get out again ~ weather just now isn’t favourable 🌧 for me personally. I live in Wester Ross, so I have the highlands on my doorstep. If you are ever up this way maybe give me a shout 🥱
Alastair! Thank you so much for this video! I've (from Edmonton, Canada) been starting to make plans to do a solo biking trip in Scotland, for the summer of 2018. I'm purchasing a bike in advance, from Shand (built in Livingston). I'll get them to size me for the bike, and ride it out their doors, and go from there! I'm hoping to go for 3-4 weeks. And then, i saw this video from you. It confirms me, that yes, i'm making a good choice for my next adventure! I'll need to do some research on the bothy's, as that indeed looks like something i'd like to experience. You're an inspiration! Thanks, again, mate!
Wonderful! You have so many gifts, thank you for sharing. I was expecting adventure and hoping for great cinematography, and you delivered both. But I was not expecting such beautiful prose and narration. Your voice and writing reminds me of Neil Gaiman, one of the best in the written and spoken word. Thx, Stu from Seattle
Just found you, sir. A breathtaking video made with passion and dedication. Having ‘The Bothy Band’ at the the end was simply genius. I look forward to following your adventures. 🌞🙏🇬🇧🌞
Came across this video by chance. Spot on! Every time I get fed up with my day this is the one to watch. Cheers Alastair. Looks like my mountain bike is going to be doing ALOT more miles. I have GOT to do this before I get too creaky. Brilliant video. And another subscriber on board.
Wow! I hope you have many years of bothy nights and escapes from the mundane. Great sentiments, well delivered. And such wonderful landscape. I hope to stay in one of the bothies one day. What an amazing experience.
Such a good bothy biking edit. Ive visited a few bothys via mountain bike but never stayed in one. Going to change that in 5 weeks. Thanks for the inspiration.
Amazing film! Yes, it's so important to respect a Bothy because if you do it will make one a better person in life. The scenery you shot is a sumptuous feast for the eyes. The Scottish Highlands really are a gem in the British isles the last bastion of glorious wilderness. I'm slightly nervous of the highland cows as they have horns like Spanish bulls but that said, I'm prepared to risk my life to experience exceptional beauty!
Magic video, just back from staying in a wee secret bothy ourselves, so know what you mean about the hard to find ones being the most rewarding! Managed to find one of the bothies on here with a wee quick search, but time to get the maps oot and do a wee bit of detective work to find one of the other ones...
Like your books this video is just amazing! Being retired I'm fortunate in that work is a thing of the past (and that's where it should be). I can head to the hills whenever I want, it's a freedom I cherish. Live simply.
I didn't know Scotland was so beautiful. I've always wanted to visit because my great-great-grandparents came from there; now I would like to visit just for its own sake.
Honestly, this has the kind of quality that +North Face normally provides!! Amazing video. I am going hiking for almost 50 miles in Scotland next year, and this has made me so much more excited for it!
waoo absolutely fantastic video and great scenery all around Scotland, never heard about Bothy, what a beautiful thing, I have a great passion for mountain biking too..cheers mate
Saw this at Dundee Mountain Film Festival! Awesome work! Up until now I've always used a tent on my expeditions, but this has definitely inspired me to go out and hunt for a bothy!
What an awe inspiring master piece! including my favourite scottish mountain, I use the phantom also for wild camping and love how you use it sparingly, so well done must have taken hours and hours to put together but this is why we love the wilderness thanks :) Tim
Loved camasunary bothy, spent several days there wearing only rainwear still soaked to the skin scavenging wood and meeting all sorts of interesting folk and drinking their whiskey
Great job!!! A truly inspirational video. I really need to do another trip to the Scottish mountains... My last visit was rather unpleasant because I spent most of the time sick in a hotel room but this was just bad luck.
They have exactly the same concept in Norway, where for 20 quid a year you get a key to 500 mountain cabins all over Norway. Except there they've managed to make them all habitable for humans rather than cattle. Can imagine the bearded English leaders of the Bothy Association would never allow such forward thinking.
No, keep it simple, we don't want money involved at all, if Scotland gets it's independence you'll see forward thinking rapidly, transportation will even be free but, for sure the English are holding us back.
Just 7 years after seeing this for the first time (and many many more times in between) I’ve finally booked my train ticket to Lairg - in search of Kearvaig and Suilven! Can’t wait :)
Oh brilliant!
I’m watching this at work on a break. I work in a poor part of Los Angeles, this reality couldn’t be further from my own. But it was a good escape. Thank you.
Good luck with LA life!
Mr. Hman life sucks mate but if you're ever thinking of coming to Scotland get in touch all the best
Scotland is great but it's got parts that would run LA close on scum and violence
. . . just a wonderful vlog, and elemental about bothy-culture !
Thanks for letting us in on it too, Ralfy.
By only basic amenities, does he mean, in the cupboard, you'll just find standard Blends or perhaps Single Malts bottled at 40% abv, chill filtered and E150a colouring?
@@RebMordechaiReviews . . . no, more basic, . . . a can of cider if your lucky.
This is still one of my most favorite videos
Wow, absolutely stunning film. An inspiration indeed. Thankyou
What a great video.
One year ago I've backpacked through Scotland for about 3 months. I set myself the challenge to spend as many nights in as many different bothies as possible. Went up to 50 nights in 42 different huts. I absolutely loved my time doing so. I moved around by hiking and hitchhiking and the feeling to step through a door of a bothy for the first time is amazing.
I'll be back in a few weeks to spend another 5 weeks in this wonderful country. Really looking forward to it.
Cheers
Did you write a blog?
Alastair Humphreys; Legend, Lunatic & Leeds fan. This wonderful world needs more people like you mate. MOT
martinace1000 cheers!
Hi Alastair thanks for this video during lockdown it keeps me sain and lets me plan adventures in my head I have also read Moods of Future Joys and Thunder and Sunshine again the only books I have read twice in my life .so thanks again and stay safe.
Thanks James! It's a time for dreaming and scheming...
This is the film that inspired me to go bikepaking and have microadventures... Thanks Al.
Yay!
I've watched this film a few times over the years. Right now its helping me through the Coronavirus pandemic. I have to stay at home but I can still dream. Thanks ❤
"The best memories are the ones that are earned" Absolutely accurate.
Very well written script. a pleasure to watch! thanks for making this film.
Amen !! . . . and Thank YOU .
best thumbnail ever. let a peace of my heart at camasunary bay at some point,,,,,,,,
What a wonderful video! Thanks for sharing :)
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video but every time I do I love it even more........THANK YOU FOR SHARING
Your videos are truly inspiring and beautifully made.
I’m not a cyclist these days, walking is my limit. Your Hx of the bothy was something I’ve never thought about? Really like your being. Video was very inspiring indeed. My walks I’ve started to add to UA-cam, Scotland has some stunning remote vistas and your bike destinations are drawing me to get out again ~ weather just now isn’t favourable 🌧 for me personally. I live in Wester Ross, so I have the highlands on my doorstep. If you are ever up this way maybe give me a shout 🥱
Alastair! Thank you so much for this video! I've (from Edmonton, Canada) been starting to make plans to do a solo biking trip in Scotland, for the summer of 2018. I'm purchasing a bike in advance, from Shand (built in Livingston). I'll get them to size me for the bike, and ride it out their doors, and go from there! I'm hoping to go for 3-4 weeks.
And then, i saw this video from you. It confirms me, that yes, i'm making a good choice for my next adventure! I'll need to do some research on the bothy's, as that indeed looks like something i'd like to experience.
You're an inspiration! Thanks, again, mate!
Jerrold Eilander did you do it ?
This was so well done, wow, on the bucket list for sure! Thanks for the HUGE inspiration Alastair!
What an amazing video, brilliant!
Brilliant!! Loved it!
Superb! Thank you, I have been procrastinating long enough. It’s a fat bike for me and my own beautiful Wales to properly enjoy.
Sounds heavenly! Now if I can jump a freight train from California to New York, Work a ship to Glasgow, rent a bike...
One of my favourites... Love coming back to this one when I'm stuck in London for a while...
watched with my 9 yr old daughter. she said, can we do that?! yes, i said, we can! lovely film. thanks for sharing it.
Thank you for making this video Alastair! I keep coming back to it again and again.
Wonderful! You have so many gifts, thank you for sharing. I was expecting adventure and hoping for great cinematography, and you delivered both. But I was not expecting such beautiful prose and narration. Your voice and writing reminds me of Neil Gaiman, one of the best in the written and spoken word. Thx, Stu from Seattle
ive been searching for some video like this. I haven't found any one as satisfying and inspiring as this. I enjoyed it a lot.
Beautiful, rugged and remote. Keys to a Canadian's heart. Great video thank you
Just amazing..and inspirational..thank you. :)
Alastair, you and your work is inspirational; thank-you.
What an absolutely brilliant and inspiring movie - thank you !!!!
As good as any documentary I have ever seen . thank you !
Another great micro-adventure Al and we really dig the narration perfectly accompanying the visuals - thought provoking stuff.
oh my that bought back some powerful memories having stayed in a couple of those a few months ago while walking the Skye trail.
Three words, amazing, creative, inspirational. 👍🏽
Quite possibly the best film on the sensations that epitomizes outside adventures.
Just found you, sir. A breathtaking video made with passion and dedication. Having ‘The Bothy Band’ at the the end was simply genius. I look forward to following your adventures. 🌞🙏🇬🇧🌞
Alastair, I've read several of your books. You constantly remind us of what is really important in life...thanks for all the inspiration!
BRILLIANT...as always! Thanks so much, and enjoy every minute of life to the full.
+Nick Kendell thanks!
You Sir..are an inspiration! :o)
Love this...Gets better every time i watch it.😊😊😊
Fantastic work!!! Really talented.
Thanks
Wow what a video!
Fantastic video
Great film, as always...
Came across this video by chance. Spot on! Every time I get fed up with my day this is the one to watch. Cheers Alastair. Looks like my mountain bike is going to be doing ALOT more miles. I have GOT to do this before I get too creaky. Brilliant video. And another subscriber on board.
Thanks for sharing that marvellous video!
Wow! I hope you have many years of bothy nights and escapes from the mundane.
Great sentiments, well delivered. And such wonderful landscape. I hope to stay in one of the bothies one day. What an amazing experience.
Fantastically narrated. Stunning footage. Bravo.
Great wee video of the wild and beautiful places. Good music choice as well. Thanks for the escape!
Awesomely inspiring. Thanks for this :)
Absolutely fantastic film & narrative. More power to you 👋👋👋
Such a good bothy biking edit. Ive visited a few bothys via mountain bike but never stayed in one. Going to change that in 5 weeks. Thanks for the inspiration.
Fantastic journey and great video
Brilliant! Inspiring video indeed. That's why we move Highland of Scotland.💚💙❤
Wow, this video... no, this STORY is magic ! 🤩
Great video Al, I really enjoyed that and its inspired a bothy tour for me :)
verry nice video story...my next place for visit....greetings from croatia
Amazing film! Yes, it's so important to respect a Bothy because if you do it will make one a better person in life. The scenery you shot is a sumptuous feast for the eyes. The Scottish Highlands really are a gem in the British isles the last bastion of glorious wilderness. I'm slightly nervous of the highland cows as they have horns like Spanish bulls but that said, I'm prepared to risk my life to experience exceptional beauty!
Inspiring vídeo. And a great idea for all aboundened forest houses here in Portugal. Have a great day!
Magic video, just back from staying in a wee secret bothy ourselves, so know what you mean about the hard to find ones being the most rewarding! Managed to find one of the bothies on here with a wee quick search, but time to get the maps oot and do a wee bit of detective work to find one of the other ones...
I wish I could be there! Cozy and beautiful
Like your books this video is just amazing! Being retired I'm fortunate in that work is a thing of the past (and that's where it should be). I can head to the hills whenever I want, it's a freedom I cherish. Live simply.
I didn't know Scotland was so beautiful. I've always wanted to visit because my great-great-grandparents came from there; now I would like to visit just for its own sake.
Such a good adventure! Gotta love the bothy network!
Brilliant little film...loved it :-)
Honestly, this has the kind of quality that +North Face normally provides!! Amazing video.
I am going hiking for almost 50 miles in Scotland next year, and this has made me so much more excited for it!
We have a Hidden Bothy, about 6 miles from my home. I found it but not stayed yet!
waoo absolutely fantastic video and great scenery all around Scotland, never heard about Bothy, what a beautiful thing, I have a great passion for mountain biking too..cheers mate
Love this ! I'd vaguely heard about Bothy's , now I know what it's all about !
Great video & a really wonderful resource.
That was smashing,thanks for that.
Superb film,stunning views ..
Stunning!
Saw this at Dundee Mountain Film Festival! Awesome work! Up until now I've always used a tent on my expeditions, but this has definitely inspired me to go out and hunt for a bothy!
What an awe inspiring master piece! including my favourite scottish mountain, I use the phantom also for wild camping and love how you use it sparingly, so well done must have taken hours and hours to put together but this is why we love the wilderness thanks :) Tim
+savedpurplecat Thank you! It takes restraint to limit the amount of drone shots!
Stunning.
Another great video! Would love to do this when I go across the pond.
Cool video, loved it! 👍😍
Maravilloso......
what I am seeing seems impossible.. kudos for motivating so many ppl around.. great stuff..
Great work!
Loved camasunary bothy, spent several days there wearing only rainwear still soaked to the skin scavenging wood and meeting all sorts of interesting folk and drinking their whiskey
Love the story!
Superb film.
Great job!!! A truly inspirational video. I really need to do another trip to the Scottish mountains... My last visit was rather unpleasant because I spent most of the time sick in a hotel room but this was just bad luck.
Great to watch, beautifully written script too.
Brilliant video, very professional and totally inspiring. I'd love to visit the one built at the top of the cliff, looks wild.
thank you fantastic video
Beautiful
They have exactly the same concept in Norway, where for 20 quid a year you get a key to 500 mountain cabins all over Norway. Except there they've managed to make them all habitable for humans rather than cattle. Can imagine the bearded English leaders of the Bothy Association would never allow such forward thinking.
No, keep it simple, we don't want money involved at all, if Scotland gets it's independence you'll see forward thinking rapidly, transportation will even be free but, for sure the English are holding us back.
wowwwwwwww THATS amazing!
What a great video
that's a cracking wee film you've made there.
Great Video, you clearly put alot of work into it.
You have shown a truly nice image here.
You got a subscriber. Great Video.
Great film.. just what I was looking for, very inspiring, you just got a subscriber.
+Andy Ballard welcome!