From the summit of Sgurr Alasdair, 3,258 feet, in the Black Cuillins of Skye. Left to right. Ben Cruachan in Argyll, Ardnamurchan Peninsula, Ben More, Isle of Mull, Isles of Eigg, Muck, Soay and Rum. Sensational!

            Poem.

A seat with the Gods.
Brush the clouds.
Touch the sky.
Nigh on one thousand metres up 
on precipitous ridges of gabbro, basalt and bands of quartz.
On the serrated, pinnacled, fragmented remnant ridge
of a long-time extinct and exploded super-volcano.
Having clambered past the Fairy Pools,
The Cioch, Coire Lagan, the Inaccessible Pinnacle
and one thousand five hundred feet of sharp, shattered scree
making up the Great Stone Chute, and the final summit arête, this is the view southwards.
To stand here.
And see this.
It is surreal.
Spiritual.
An honour. 
A privilege.
A sight that relatively few have seen.
But those that have seen it, will not forget.
To see for 80-100 miles in all directions.
To see Ben Nevis, An Teallach,
Ben More on Mull,
Canna, Rum, Eigg, Muck and Soay.
And to see a large part of the incredible Isle of Skye, itself,
and the Outer Hebrides.
It is too much to take in, too much to believe.
I shall have to return and confirm that it was real,
not, merely, a wonderful dream! 

   

Taken in: UK / Scotland / Bualintur (show map)

Taken on: May 27, 2007

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Outer Hebrides-over 60 miles away

from summit of Sgurr Alasdair, 993 metres, 3,258 feet

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