"cairn on the summit, as an ascensionists' record. As many as fifty ascents of the stack are made each year. Roger Holmes, Gus Hutchinson-Brown and Tim Emmett made the first BASE jump from the stack on 14 May 2008. Hutchinson-Brown died 11 days later during a jump in Switzerland. On 10 July 2017, Alexander Schulz completed a highline walk to and from the summit, at 137m above the sea on a line 180m long. Old Man of Hoy The Old Man of Hoy is a 449-foot (137m) sea stack on Hoy, part of the Orkney archipelago off the north coast"
"is graded Hard Very Severe (HVS) and access to the stack involves a swim at low tide. The name means ""the herdsman"" or ""the shepherd"" in Scottish Gaelic. Am Buachaille Am Buachaille is a sea stack, or vertical rock formation composed of Torridonian Sandstone, south-west of Sandwood Bay in the Scottish county of Sutherland. It lies at the tip of the Rubh' a Bhuachaille headland around north of Kinlochbervie. The stack is high and was first climbed in 1968 by the mountaineers Tom Patey, Ian Clough and John Cleare. At least four climbing routes are identified on Am Buachaille which"
"Stac an Armin Stac an Armin (Scottish Gaelic: ""Stac an Àrmainn""), based on the proper Scottish Gaelic spelling (formerly ""àrmuinn""), is a sea stack in the St Kilda archipelago. It is 196 metres (643 ft.) tall, qualifying it as a Marilyn. It is the highest sea stack in Scotland and the British Isles. The name Stac an Armin means stack of the soldier/warrior, and evidence remains showing it was used by people living nearby as a hunting grounds. It is not believed to have been inhabited year round, but has hosted some (involuntary) extended stays. Climbing the rocks was once"
"Haystack Rock Haystack Rock is a 235-foot (72-meter) sea stack in Cannon Beach, Oregon. It is sometimes claimed locally to be the third-tallest such ""intertidal"" (meaning it can be reached by land) structure in the world, but there are no official references to support this. A popular tourist destination, the monolithic rock is adjacent to the beach and accessible by foot at low tide. The Haystack Rock tide pools are home to many intertidal animals, including starfish, sea anemone, crabs, chitons, limpets, and sea slugs. The rock is also a nesting site for many sea birds, including terns and puffins."
"Am Buachaille Am Buachaille is a sea stack, or vertical rock formation composed of Torridonian Sandstone, south-west of Sandwood Bay in the Scottish county of Sutherland. It lies at the tip of the Rubh' a Bhuachaille headland around north of Kinlochbervie. The stack is high and was first climbed in 1968 by the mountaineers Tom Patey, Ian Clough and John Cleare. At least four climbing routes are identified on Am Buachaille which is considered a ""famous"" sea stack climb and has been called the ""most serious of 'the big three' Scottish stacks"" and a ""truly great stack"". The easiest route"
"road. The seas around the Old Man of Stoer have claimed a number of vessels. There is believed to be the wreck of a fishing boat in the vicinity of the stack, which sank on 17 February 1953. The Old Man of Stoer is popular with climbers due to its height and approachability. It was first climbed in 1966 by Brian Henderson, Paul Nunn, Tom Patey, and Brian Robertson. Along with Am Buachaille and the Old Man of Hoy, it has become something of a legend among climbers. To gain access to the foot of the stack, a Tyrolean traverse"
"Stewart Stacks Stewart Stacks is a group of prominent sea stacks, one of them rising to 25 m, lying between Rugged Island and Astor Island in the northeast of Osogovo Bay, western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers. The feature is named after Hampton Stewart of the American sealing vessel ""Jane Maria"" under Captain Robert Johnson who, according to the New York Gazette and General Advertiser of 16 May 1821, made one of the first charts of the South Shetlands in 1820-21. The stacks are centred at which is"
"become temporarily trapped on Haystack Rock when high tide engulfs the rock in water, necessitating rescue by the United States Coast Guard or local authorities. Oregon's beaches are publicly owned, and there are several hotels along the beachfront within walking distance of Haystack Rock, making the area congested with tourists during the summer. Haystack Rock Haystack Rock is a 235-foot (72-meter) sea stack in Cannon Beach, Oregon. It is sometimes claimed locally to be the third-tallest such ""intertidal"" (meaning it can be reached by land) structure in the world, but there are no official references to support this. A popular"
"Stonington Island Stonington Island is a rocky island lying northeast of Neny Island in the eastern part of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It is long from north-west to south-east and wide, yielding an area of . It was formerly connected by a drifted snow slope to Northeast Glacier on the mainland. Highest elevation is ""Anemometer Hill"" which rises to . Stonington Island was chosen as the site for the East Base of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) Expedition (1939–41). It was named after Stonington, Connecticut, home port of the sloop ""Hero"" in which"
"which reaches . This name is common one in Orkney for the highest point on an island and comes from the historic use of these places used for the lighting of warning beacons. The island is known for the Neolithic Isbister Chambered Cairn, popularly known as the ""Tomb of the Eagles"". Discovered by Ronald Simison in 1958 in the south east of the island, 16,000 human bones and 725 bird bones were found at the site, the latter predominantly belonging to the White-tailed Sea Eagle (""Haliaeetus albicilla""). The evidence suggests that the human bodies had been exposed to the elements"
"will eventually collapse. The stack was first climbed by mountaineers Chris Bonington, Rusty Baillie and Tom Patey in 1966. From 8–9 July 1967, an ascent featured in ""The Great Climb"", a live BBC three-night outside broadcast, which had around 15 million viewers. This featured three pairs of climbers: Bonington and Patey repeated their original route, whilst two new lines were climbed by Joe Brown and Ian McNaught-Davis and by Pete Crew and Dougal Haston. Red Szell became the first blind person to climb the Old Man, despite suffering from retinitis pigmentosa that left him with 5% vision. With assistance from"
"Lake (South Orkney Islands) lies to the northwest of the hill. Tioga Hill Tioga Hill () is a rounded summit, 290 m, standing at the west side the head of McLeod Glacier on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands. The hill is the highest point on the island. Surveyed in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1954 for the Tioga, owned by Messrs. Christensen and Co. (Corral, Chile), which was one of the first floating factories to flense whales at sea. It was wrecked at nearby Port"
"pitting, saltspray and honeycomb erosion and ""some of the best examples of differential erosion processes on tilted sandstone strata in Scotland"". The height of the headland reaches 17m above sea level in the south and east and 10m in the north and west. The raised beaches provide evidence of the post-glacial changes in sea level. Water depths offshore reach 10m at 300m offshore and 20m at circa offshore. According to the ""Orkneyinga Saga"" the Norse Earl of Orkney, Torf-Einarr ""was the first man to dig peat for fuel, firewood being very scarce on the islands, at Tarbat Ness"" (Torfness in"
"The stack is quite difficult to climb, ""one which only a few of the natives could lead."" Stac Biorach Stac Biorach (Scottish Gaelic: ""the pointed stack"") is a sea stack, 73 metres tall, situated between Hirta and Soay (in the ""Sound of Soay"") in the St Kilda archipelago of Scotland. It lies west of Stac Shoaigh (Soay Stac) (61 metres). The stack has never been permanently inhabited, but has contributed considerably to the local economy by supplying the St Kildans with sea birds and their eggs. Rev. Neil MacKenzie, a Church of Scotland minister who resided on St Kilda from"
"is necessary, which may require a swimmer to put it in place. There are a number of routes of varying levels of difficulty. In the Channel 4 television programme Hidden Talent, 45-year-old Maggie Reenan climbed the stack after 18 days of intensive training, after her natural aptitude for climbing was discovered. Northern fulmars (""Fulmarus glacialis"") inhabit the stack and nearby sea cliffs. Other wildlife in the area includes the great skua (also known by its Norse name ""bonxie"") peregrines, pinnipeds and cetaceans. Seabirds which can be seen include bonxies, twite, dunlin, guillemots, razorbills, skylarks, and fulmars. Old Man of Stoer"
"Tioga Hill Tioga Hill () is a rounded summit, 290 m, standing at the west side the head of McLeod Glacier on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands. The hill is the highest point on the island. Surveyed in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1954 for the Tioga, owned by Messrs. Christensen and Co. (Corral, Chile), which was one of the first floating factories to flense whales at sea. It was wrecked at nearby Port Jebsen during a gale on February 4, 1913. The small Tioga"
"La Longue Rocque La Longue Rocque is the tallest megalithic standing stone in the Channel Islands. The menhir stands in a field next to Les Paysans road in Guernsey. The granite block is 3.5m tall and extends a further metre below the ground. It is believed that it was erected between 3000-1500BC. Excavation in 1894 found the menhir to be trigged with one stone and embedded in gravel. It is estimated to weigh five tons. The menhir is located at 49° 26′ 40.6″ N / 02° 38′ 07.4″ W. On the north facing edge of the menhir is an area"
"of the Orkney Islands. Bird species nesting on the stack include: Sule Stack Sule Stack or Stack Skerry is an extremely remote island or stack in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland. It is formed of Lewisian gneiss. Sule Stack lies north of the Scottish mainland, and west of the Orkney mainland, at . Sule Stack's sole neighbour, Sule Skerry, lies to the north east and the remote islands of Rona and Sula Sgeir lie further to the west. Sule Stack and Sule Skerry are home to thousands of gannets and as a result are listed as"
"Mount Lamington Mount Lamington is an andesitic stratovolcano in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea. The forested peak of the volcano had not been recognised as such until its devastating eruption in 1951 that caused about 3,000 deaths. The volcano rises to 1680 meters above the coastal plain north of the Owen Stanley Range. A summit complex of lava domes and crater remnants rises above a low-angle base of volcaniclastic deposits that are dissected by radial valleys. A prominent broad ""avalanche valley"" extends northward from the breached crater. The mountain was named after Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington who"
"Risin og Kellingin Risin og Kellingin (Risin and Kellingin) are two sea stacks just off the northern coast of the island of Eysturoy in the Faroe Islands close to the town of Eiði. The name ""Risin og Kellingin"" means ""The Giant and the Witch"" (or ""Hag"") and relates to an old legend about their origins. The Giant (Risin) is the 71m stack further from the coast, and the witch (Kellingin) is the 68m pointed stack nearer land, standing with her legs apart. A legend tells how, once upon a time, the giants in Iceland were envious and decided that they"
"the waist"". The centre of the island is largely moorland covered with heather, and cultivation is confined to the coasts. The highest points are Flaughton Hill at the island's centre, Fersness Hill at West Side, Vinquoy Hill to the north and Ward Hill to the south, which reaches . In Orkney this last name, which derives from the Norse ""varði"", is a common one for the highest point on an island as in the past they were used for lighting warning beacons. The largest body of water is the sea, south east of Vinquoy Hill. Loch of Doomy lies on"
"of Williams Point (British mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009). Gargoyle Bastion Gargoyle Bastion is a rocky headland rising to 60 m on the northwest coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and forming the south side of the entrance to Hydra Cove and the northeast side of the entrance to Griffin Cove. It has sub-vertical cliff faces to seaward, and is flanked to north and south by rock cliffs. The feature is named after the mythical Gargoyle, a dragon-monster. The point is located at which is 830 m northeast of Organpipe"
"Hoy Hoy (from Norse ""Háey"" meaning ""high island"") is an island in Orkney, Scotland, measuring — ranked largest in the archipelago after Mainland. A natural causeway, ""the Ayre"", links to much smaller South Walls; the two islands are treated as one entity by the UK census. The dramatic coastline of Hoy greets visitors travelling to Orkney by ferry from the Scottish mainland. It has extremes of many kinds: some of the highest sea cliffs in the UK at St John's Head, which reach ;; a light-stone precarious sea stack taller than the facing cliff – the Old Man of Hoy;"
"Rocquaine. La Longue Rocque La Longue Rocque is the tallest megalithic standing stone in the Channel Islands. The menhir stands in a field next to Les Paysans road in Guernsey. The granite block is 3.5m tall and extends a further metre below the ground. It is believed that it was erected between 3000-1500BC. Excavation in 1894 found the menhir to be trigged with one stone and embedded in gravel. It is estimated to weigh five tons. The menhir is located at 49° 26′ 40.6″ N / 02° 38′ 07.4″ W. On the north facing edge of the menhir is an"
"Walton Peak Walton Peak () is a sharp peak, 825 m tall, which stands 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) north of Mount Rhamnus and is part of the irregular ridge separating Northeast Glacier from Neny Fjord, on the west coast of Graham Land. First surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill, it was resurveyed in 1946 and 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). It is named for Eric W.K. Walton, FIDS engineer at Stonington Island in 1946 and 1947, who in 1946 rescued J.E. Tonkin of FIDS from a crevasse in Northeast Glacier."
"Walton Peak Walton Peak () is a sharp peak, 825 m tall, which stands 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) north of Mount Rhamnus and is part of the irregular ridge separating Northeast Glacier from Neny Fjord, on the west coast of Graham Land. First surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill, it was resurveyed in 1946 and 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). It is named for Eric W.K. Walton, FIDS engineer at Stonington Island in 1946 and 1947, who in 1946 rescued J.E. Tonkin of FIDS from a crevasse in Northeast Glacier."
"to its fate. Experts assume an acute danger of collapse of the top two thirds because of an instable layer of sands 16 metres above sea level, which already is the thinnest part of Lange Anna. Lange Anna Lange Anna (""Tall Anna""), is a high sea stack of Buntsandstein in the North Sea island of Helgoland, Germany. Its real local name is ""Nathurn Stak"" (Northern Stack). Climbing the stack is not allowed but tourists can look at the rock from a distance. Lange Anna is somewhat similar to the Old Man of Hoy. In 1969 it was declared a natural"
"Hopkins Nunataks Hopkins Nunataks () is a group of three nunataks rising to at the head of Cambridge Glacier, between the Coombs Hills and the Convoy Range in Victoria Land. The nunataks extend west-east for and rise about 50 meters above the Cambridge Glacier. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2007 after Steve Hopkins who worked for several seasons at McMurdo Station, first as a cargo handler loading and unloading C-141 and C-130 aircraft, later attaining the lead supervisory cargo position. He was injured during the 2001-2002 season in a helicopter crash at Lake Fryxell while working"
"Standing Stones of Stenness The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument five miles northeast of Stromness on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. This may be the oldest henge site in the British Isles. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland as a scheduled monument. The surviving stones are sited on a promontory at the south bank of the stream that joins the southern ends of the sea loch Loch of Stenness and the freshwater"
"""comparatively easy"" to climb although getting ashore onto the stack was ""a most appalling undertaking"" involving jumping ashore and climbing an overhanging cliff covered in slippery seaweed to a stanchion above sea level. It was climbed on 21 May 1990 by three National Trust for Scotland wardens. Its summit was reached by six climbers, including Marilyn baggers and supporting rock climbers, on 13 October 2014. There were more ascents in October 2015. St Kilda has the world's largest colony of northern gannet, with an estimated 60,000 breeding pairs on Boreray, Stac an Armin and Stac Lee. In 2004 about 14,000"
"a series of depots were developed, including one at Mount Jackson. BAS members were successful in making many first ascents of the mountains of the Antarctic Peninsula, and John Cunningham, who served at the BAS base at Adelaide Island, was the first to climb Mount Jackson. Traveling by dog sled for , his team reached the summit on 23 November 1964. A precise height of the summit was determined by a BAS survey party who ascended the peak during the austral summer of 1996–97. The mountain is in height, with a prominence of and a saddle DEM of . Mount"
"(British mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009). Ocoa Point Ocoa Point is a steep headland backed by raised beach terraces at the head of New Plymouth harbour in Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by 19th century sealers. The feature was named in 1971 by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition geologists who had worked in the area, probably after a member of the expedition. The point is located at which is 5.1 km southeast of Start Point, 3.47 km northwest of Chester Cone, 6.24"
"a constant rate creates rare hexagonal pillars. These form via a slightly different mechanism to usual sea-stacks, and can be found at other rock-climbing sites around the state including Mount Wellingtons Organ Pipes. Totem Pole (Tasmania) The Totem Pole is a sea stack at popular amongst rockclimbers in the Tasman National Park, Tasmania, Australia. It contains a number of climbing routes, and is famous for being the site of the 1998 accident which caused climber Paul Pritchard's hemiplegia. The Totem Pole was first climbed in 1968 by John Ewbank and Allan Keller and freed by Doug McConnel and Dean Rollins."