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Last light on the Cuillin

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Location: Looking towards Sgurr Alasdair of the Black Cuillin Ridge, Isle of Skye, Scotland.   Taken from the Inaccessible Pinnacle along the Cuillin ridge of Skye.
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This was one of my most unforgettable mountain experiences.  Taken in July last year in the middle of a heat wave.  I traveled up to the Isle of Skye with some climber friends with the intention of meeting up with my friend Will Copestake willcopestakemedia.com/. Will was summiting the peaks of Skye as part of a wider year long trip that saw him sea kayak around the entire coast of Scotland and climb all 287 munros and cycling between the mountains too.  

Anyway, it was too hot to climb during the day so we set off from the valley in the late afternoon and we reached the finger of rock known in munro bagging cirlces as the Inaccessible Pinnacle, by late evening.  My climber friends geared up the route to the top and and belayed me so that I could get to the summit.  We were all up for sunset and the views and lighting were tremendous as you can see.

I have plenty from this trip so keep your eyes peeled, enjoy and thanks as always for the comments, favs and watches :)


Image size
1300x630px 920.64 KB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D90
Shutter Speed
10/800 second
Aperture
F/8.0
Focal Length
18 mm
Date Taken
Jul 20, 2013, 9:48:48 PM
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MehreenFreed's avatar
This is a marvelous sight. Beautiful. Ireland and Scotland are on my bucket-list of places-to-see!