Winter Mountaineering in northern Scotland on Beinn Dearg
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- Scottish winter mountaineering and camping on Being Dearg in Wester Ross. Deep snow covers the landscape during an intense December cold snap. I take my camera out to photograph this magical winter wonderland, despite the challenges of the conditions. Though a pair of snow shoes would have been useful!
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Music tracks featured in this video are:
- ‘Silk’, by Tubebackr
- ‘Rise’ by Tubebackr
- ‘Take me with you’ by Purple Cat
CAMERA EQUIPMENT USED IN THIS VIDEO:
GoPro Hero 8 black: expertphotography.com/gopro-h...
Canon Eos 5D Mk IV with 24-105mm lens: www.canon.co.uk/for_home/prod...
Slik Sprint pro tripod (2015 version): slik.com/products/sprint-pro-i...
SOME CAMPING/OUTDOOR KIT USED:
Terra Nova Quasar tent: www.terra-nova.co.uk/products...
Therm-a-rest neo-air x-lite: www.thermarest.com/ie/sleepin...
Mountain Equipment Xero 350 ultralight down sleeping bag
Mountain Equipment Glacier 700 four season sleeping bag
Rab Neutrino winter down jacket (2008)
Delorme (now owned by Garmin) Inreach Satellite text message handset: discover.garmin.com/en-GB/inr...
Jetboil Zip stove: www.jetboil.co.uk/products/zi...
Grivel Munro Walking ice axe
La Sportiva Nepal Extreme Winter mountaineering boots
Grivel G12 crampons
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About Me:
Hi and thanks for checking out my videos! I’m Feargus Cooney, a photographer and amateur explorer who has been disappearing into the wilderness for most of my life. It’s my passion and my salvation from the stresses of everyday life.
The main aim of my excursions/expeditions is to explore the relatively (and occasionally completely) unknown if I can - to get off the beaten path in some way and bring back photography of nature and wilderness.
I’ve been filming my adventures since 1999, though am only a recent addition to using TH-cam as a way of getting the experiences out there. During the COVID-19 pandemic my wife and I made the decision it was time to escape the stress of living far from any real wilderness and moved to northern Scotland, and that’s where most of these videos take place. It’s not as pure and unspoilt as some wilderness areas around the world but it can certainly be remote and wild. I also head off into more ‘pure’ wilderness around the world once or twice a year, and will occasionally add videos from my archive of trips I did in the past where the quality is high enough.
Scotland has made a world of difference to my mental health. The space - and right - to roam here, along with a healthier attitude to freedom of access to nature than I’ve come across in most places I’ve lived has made entering this phase of my life a truly transformative one, raising me out of persistent cycles of depression and stress that have plagued most of my adult life.
I’m passionate about nature and the wilderness and always have been, and I hope to share some of that passion with you.
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A WORD OF CAUTION: My videos cover experiences I have had and are not to be taken as guides or recommendations without proper training and experience. I’ve been spending time in the wilderness camping wild and doing the various activities I show for many years, and have made plenty of mistakes while refining my experience and wisdom, some of which could have been very serious. Please seek appropriate training or go with someone more experienced than you before trying risky activities.
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Ascent to my winter camp
04:55 In the freezing tent
05:59 Night time mountaineering!
13:25 Climbing the mountain the next day
15:07 Mountain photography and closing words
Enjoyed your vid dude, looks amazing and beautiful.. Hope u keep uploading and sharing your missions out and about in the Middle of Nowhere. Cheers
Thanks, and yes that's the plan for the foreseeable future!
That tent is badass ❤
Yep… my reliable winter shelter :)
Inspirational video there sir.
Thank you!
Tuneees love it subbed
Thanks!
New to your channel Fergus and now subscribed. Being in Lancashire, the Lakes are my go to wild camping trips but desperately want to get up to Scotland more in the coming year.
Amazing scenery, amazing video and looking forward to watching more past and future videos 👌❤️🏴
Great video, thank you!
Nice one Fergus. Looked beautiful up there, and a right slog too in those conditions. ATB 👍
Thanks David :)
Well? What
Do you expect?! Lol!!! Any time some astronomical thing happens, it’s cloudy! X
Too true, especially in Scotland🤣
@@feargusc once in a life time meteor? The rest of the world clear skys. Wherever you live. Cloudy.
Great video thanks! I was in the Cairngorms last weekend for 3 days. I was hoping for these conditions when I booked my travel but all the snow melted and I had high winds which meant I only summited on the last day. At least I got one good day thankfully. I experienced lots of the same things as you with the light and the short days
Thanks for your comment. That’s a shame with the weather you had, but oh so typical of Scotland! Here’s hoping for plenty of January ice ❄️🏔️
Enjoyed that mate.
Pity you didn't get as high pitched as you'd have liked.
The joys of breaking trail eh.
Looked a heavy pack that 🦵🦵💪💪
Thanks for the comment. The joys indeed! Yea I’m not great at walking ultralight. A good comfy camp is too important 🙂
@feargusc haha I'm the same, always feels bloody heavy, especially in winter
That looked like quite a rough trip at times! Amazing conditions though. I wonder what the beast was? Fox prints are usually more diamond shaped, although it was hard to tell from the video. Maybe a pine marten? We have loads round here, but I’m not sure if they venture that high up. Perhaps it’s just a Yeti 🙂
Yeti was my guess, though I asked a ranger friend about it and she reckoned a fox most likely, as they often wander looking for carrion in winter 🙂
Nice one mate. Which tent is that aye? Like the look of it.
It’s the good old Terra Nova Quasar. It’s quite heavy but well up to Scottish conditions 🙂
@@feargusc i like
Great video's hope my video's would be as good as these I subscribe to your channel