The red sandstone stack of the Old Man of Hoy is a joy to behold from a hike along the cliffs. It’s one of the UK’s highest rock stacks and soars 137m above the sea, but be quick – he’s approaching ...

SCOTLAND's shores offer a wide variety of dramatic clifftops, awe-inspiring inlets and stunning seaside stacks and arches.

An 11-year-old boy is believed to be the youngest person to lead climbs up two sea stacks on the Highlands' north west coast. Aberdeen-born Aden Thurlow, who lives in Angus, picked out the routes ...

Scotland's coast is punctuated with hundreds of dramatic clifftops, awe-inspiring inlets and stunning sea arches and stacks.

A seven-year-old boy from America has successfully climbed the Old Man of Hoy, off the coast of Orkney. Cody Weishaar scaled the 449ft (137m) sea stack with his father and three of his friends in ...

THE towering columns of rock dotted around Scotland's coastline have long fascinated climbers and historians, due to their inaccessibility.

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Orkney’s sea stacks The rugged cliffs and coastline around Orkney boast a raft of spectacular sea stacks with The Old Man of Hoy, a 449ft (137m) high monolith of towering, red sandstone perhaps ...

In 1877, George Seton, a visitor to the tiny Scottish archipelago of St. Kilda, observed that the men living there had an unusual physiological characteristic. “The great toes of the cragsmen ...

In no particular order, we take a look at twenty of Scotland’s mightiest sea stacks, arches and caves and where in our beautiful country you can locate them. Click here to view the picture gallery.

The Old Man of Hoy is one of Orkney's most famous landmarks. The 449ft (137m) sea stack is formed of old red sandstone and stands close to Rackwick Bay on the west coast of the island of Hoy.