Hi guys welcome to another episode of ultimate bucket list and today I'm asked
the old man of storr why is this thing called the old man of storr well it kind
of looks like an old man kind of the old man of storr this collection of ancient
rock formations is world-famous and is the most visited attraction here on the
Isle of Skye in the middle of Scotland and ordinarily it looks like this but
when I came here it looks like this ok guys so as you can tell it's really
shitty weather today and I mean really shitty which makes climbing this thing
all the more harder yep I'm all your quarter the way up but to get to the old
man of storr you have to kind of climb right to the top of this peak here and
to be honest it's totally not being worth it this is totally not worth it ok
guys so here it is the famous old man of storr can you see it no well full enough
neither can i this has been a waste of time and seriously if the weather here
on the Isle sky is bad don't bother climbing up maths see this thing you'll
be able to see jack don't get me wrong it's cool and all but I'm a little
pissed that I can't actually see it the view actually got a bit better as I
climbed towards the top but this is about as far as I actually got because
it became quite treacherous to walk in it
check out these guys is grueling around on the floor but yeah when it gets wet
it's almost impossible to climb with just trainers or sneakers so this is
about as far as I got okay so this is probably as far as I'm
gonna go the ground is just bushes just literally
it was sliding on shamanic trainers well let's see cuz whatever you wanna call it
so I think this is pretty much the end of the road for me still can't see
anything so even though most of them don't see
anything and that's really really annoying but I can't control the weather
I guess so whilst climbing down the mountain I can actually see things it is
it turns out it appears that the weather is kind of lifting so yeah I was this
close to doing 180 and going back up but now don't know if you can see that there
but the cloud is lifting and you can actually see the damn thing now
huh trust my look so as you can see by the minute the fog is lifting and this
place is seriously pretty now that you can actually see it so yeah obviously
there's the old man of storr which is still clouded in fog and stuff but down
here it's actually a different story so pretty good so the next day I woke up
bright and early to try and catch some views and oh no you kidding me
seriously you're going to be foggy again a day - when I started climbing this
thing close guys but within a minute literally the clouds
came over and you can't see shit so ok I'm doubly pissed off now
two times I've climbed this thing and two times I can't see Sorrell Jesus so
I'm actually stood here underneath it and as you can tell you can see it but
you can't see that much because the fog and the clouds were that thick but you
know what I decided to try and wait it out I helped a lot of people take
pictures and I wandered around quite a bit
hoping for the weather to change in my favor hoping being the operative word
okay guys the cards are actually started to lift so I might be able to get some
pictures and stuff after all yay me to get the best views of the store
you'll need to walk past it and upper hill up until this ledge this offers the
best view of the place however everyone else has the same idea and we'll be
getting in your way to take pictures this can get quite annoying so you just
got to be patient and wait it out
you can get some stunning drone videos and photographs and to up oh shit so I
crashed my drone unfortunately the wind took it away had no control over it and
boom here when is this rock face here this rather ugly rock face I happen to
have some Khayyam arrogance that was standing upon a rock that was to help me
locate this thing it's pretty much total I think their gimbal when it's gone and
one of the legs of snout bar yeah ah it's this suffered a pretty nasty
setback but I don't know maybe he still works to certain yeah this is pretty
wild the clouds and win had actually died down completely at this point
thanks God thanks a lot but I did actually get to see the rocks in all
their former glory the way down was a hell of a lot easier than the way but it
was actually a little bit drier and I could navigate this quite easily
so I'm back at the car there's where I've just been and it's taken me three
hours round-trip I've pretty much broken my ankle
I've lost a drone and yeah I'm pretty injured right about now but the views
were totally worth it you'll never see another place like this
ever again so even if you're at risk of breaking ankles and drones I highly
recommend that you come and see this place once in your life okay in it I'm
sold what do I do well these come here to the Isle of Skye now
obviously the Isle of Skye is we've been out of the way so you're going to have
to drive there's no real public transportation that comes here I've said
the odd bus here in that but to be honest you're better off driving where
is this place located what there is no postcode it's put into a Sat Nav all you
have to do is find the sound of poetry and literally go about four miles to the
north you really can't miss it there's ample parking and if there's no
parking spaces left in the carpark park along either side of the road you'll be
absolutely fine it's pretty treacherous up there especially if you went
especially if you went like I did yesterday and it was chucking it down
and you're wearing nothing but trainers or sneakers you quickly find that you
can't actually climb all the way up so be prepared we're hiking gear kind of
light boots and what we're calling because you will need it but as you can
tell from my experiences the weather changes very very quickly so be prepared
to not be able to see stuff for a while they'll take you about 90 minutes to
climb to the other side of the old man of storr but that's where you get the
best views so I highly recommend that you walk the extra if you only wanted to
see the tip of it it'll probably take you about 30 minutes but be prepared I
hope you've got a good strong set of leg muscles because quite frankly you're
gonna need them it's pretty steep up there and quite frankly you can need a
certain degree of fitness now if you don't have any kind of fitness level but
you still want to climb that I highly recommend that you stop at
regular intervals take lots of fruit take lots of water because you will need
it is there anything else I need to know yes for the love of God be careful it's
pretty treacherous up there and as I previously stated I'm pretty sure I've
broken my ankle again and I've pretty sure I'm gonna
have to pay a thousand pounds for a new drone that I definitely know is true but
oh that the views were totally worth it I'm glad I came here a second time as
opposed to getting pissed off on the first day and literally stopping halfway
up yeah so if you do want to come to the I'll sky it's an amazing place find my
other video on the Isle scary rights here but if you have liked this video
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I'm going to mourn the loss of my drone now I'll try and find a McDonalds
somewhere and drown my sorrows in Coke so thank you very much for watching and
we'll see in the next episode you know what I actually played in the weatherman
he said that the weather was going to be pretty good over the next two days and
obviously it's no so yeah enjoy these guys
Ninh Ly - www.ninh.co.uk - @NinhLyUK