Camped Out Under Northern Lights • An Extreme & Unexpected Solar Storm
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2024
- On 10th May 2024, our sun unleashed on to the earth the most powerful solar storm in two decades. Caused by recent solar flares, multi-coloured aurora borealis lit up the sky across the globe. I found myself camped out on a hill that night, completely by chance, to experience the most surreal & beautiful night out of my life :) 💚💙💜
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The full video for this trip is on the editing pile, I just felt like this rare and beautiful event needed a lil video all of its own.. what an experience this was 💚💙💜 thanks for being here Wild Ones! I'm gonna get back to my usual editing now :)
Hehe, I can imagine being totally unprepared for that made it a bit of a trip in it self😂 -I got a message from a friend who's into space telling me it was going down. So I was fully geared with cameras and ready when it hit😊
This the best video of the Northern Lights I’ve seen. Your filming is always great but this one is exceptional! Thanks for this video!
I was in northern Finland, it was cloudy, and I didn't see squat. Glad you enjoyed it and shared it :)
Thank you, Claire! It's beautiful 💜
Wow. That's some amazing footage. 👏
Your face looked like I imagine our ancestors looked when something strange and mysterious happened in the sky. What an awesome experience to have had.
Honestly, Claire, I can't think of a finer person to receive the " gift" of being out on that hill to see the aurora. As a nature lover and a fine cinematographer, you were able to do justice to the filming of it all. I await the full trip video with interest.
The Universe is rewarding you Claire for being a great ambassador 🌞
Oh!!! You didn't know about the solar storm!!! I'm so happy you got to see them! It's so magical isn't it! I'm 74... I've only ever seen them once in my life. I missed this one because I had clouds but really, bloody happy that you, young one, now have a beautiful memory like I have carried.
I missed it because I was checking my eyelids for leaks ;)
@@DieyoungDiefast LOL!!!!!
Thank you for sharing that with us. We saw them here in Savannah, Georgia, much further south than you. However they were nowhere near as stunning as what you captured. Beautiful video, Claire. Thank you. ✌🏽
Hope you get to see them one day they seem more common lately
Lucky girl .For what you do and put yourself through you deserved every minute of that .
Ahh thanks, still can't believe it! 💜
The human race, born of Stardust, watching in awe, multicoloured Stardust 🙏
100% agree i live far south UK not a beep, Such a joy to see her experiance Mother nature in Colour
@@nightwolf1592yes... hello 🤗 from Poland 🇵🇱 and rural life - channel!!
OMG Claire, such a lucky lady to capture this, in all its glory, truly a lifetime experience not to be forgotten, thank you for sharing this phenomenon with us. 😊
You appeared overwhelmed Claire, but rest assured you were in the best place possible to witness such a natural phenomena.
Thank you for sharing this with us. I'm 72 and this video with your commentary was so beautiful it made me cry tears of joy, you are a very caring person and I love all your videos.
What an eloquent and poetic reflection on the event Claire! You achieved something special - you did it justice. Thank you for being there, for being the right person to be there. Wonderful footage.
Thank you so much for sharing it with me :) 💜
Clair, it was the universe that was in perfect sync, because your trip took place during the exact period of one of the strongest solar eruptions ever recorded. A record amount of solar mass was expelled and was directed exactly toward our planet Earth. Our planet resisted and you witnessed a so unique event in the history of Earth.
I thank you immensely and my eyes filled with water looking at your photos and video.
I live in a city located on the Tropic of Capricorn and we were not lucky enough to witness this event.
From this Brazilian follower, I wish that God continues to bless you and take care that you always return safely to your family.
Stay safe, happy, and enlightened with the blessings of the universe and God.
Thank you very, very much for sharing this special moment.
Quite simply, one of the best videos on TH-cam.
I can't explain why i believe that. Its just the way i feel.
The innocent joy you show towards this beautiful event is a truly marvelous moment.
In all of my 69 years, I have never seen such amazing photography work of the Northern Light! You did an amazing job of it! I'm glad you got to experience it. Thank you for sharing it with us!
I am so happy (and a bit jealous) that you got to see this. You are blessed.
So blessed! :D 💜
So glad WildBeare was on a hill when this happened, even better that it was not planned. Cant wait for the full version. Absolute joy.
Here in Central Norway, the Northern Lights are not uncommon, but every now and then, we are treated to a spectacular show that just leaves you in awe! This looks like one of those, and you are blessed to have seen it. Nice video as always!
Just think, there's not another video on earth that captured the northern lights from your perspective that night! What a treasure for sure! Thanks for the breathtaking views! Keep up the great work!
It takes a " Treasure " to find another treasure. Bushyboy Oz.
‘To feel, to care, sometimes too much’ - this was the sense I got watching the lights on a beach not far from where you were. It was completely overwhelming and in a weird way seemed to amplify my feelings about some of the awful things happening in the world. It was however unbelievably beautiful and an emotional experience to see something so rare and incredible on my doorstep. I can’t imagine how intense that was for you alone and unaware of what was happening.
It's strange isn't it, it seems to have been quite an emotional event for many people, quite overwhelming 💜 so glad you got to see it too
What an experience. Right time, right place, right person. We are all so fortunate through you. What a job you've carved for yourself. Thanks.
Your closing touched me deeply including spine tingling... Thank You
It's a privilege to see this live on a mountain top, the universe is beautiful 🌌
Sometimes I think if you were trying to make a magical world, you couldn't do much better than snow and cherry blossoms and rainbows and the northern lights.
@@steviemac2681agreed 💯. Hello from Poland 🇵🇱 and rural living channel 😊 You might enjoy it!
@@steviemac2681greetings from Poland 🇵🇱 and rural life - channel 😊
Weird thing to say, but think the fact you have such a beautiful appreciation of nature, means you were somehow meant to see this 😊
Wow, that was utterly breathtaking Claire! 😍 Fate certainly did conspire to put you in the perfect place at the perfect time to witness such a magical act of nature! And of course you did absolutely amazing at capturing it! Thank you for sharing this awe-inspiring experience with us all!
May you have a wonderful week my dear friend! 😊
Stay wild.... 🐻 -John
Hi Claire, I just wanted to say thank you for your fantastic videos, you do not know me but I am ex-army and did a lot of things in my time in the forces especially along the lines of outdoor pursuits and so on. I love nature and being out in extremes and had the fortunate opportunity to travel the world putting skills into practice in different environments. But shortly after leaving the forces I became unwell both physically and mentally. I also suffered a stroke around 4 years ago which has left me damaged and with limited capabilities which include walking. I am now classed as disabled and for a long time I beat myself up as when I attempted to do things, I compared myself how I used to be and gave up doing stuff. Leading to more depression and low self-esteem.
However, things have now changed now for me and I see the positive in things (as you say it’s only a plan that changes and that isn’t a fail and positivity can be found by just being out there) I am now reliving my passion by adapting, and that is with thanks to yourself and others. I hope you do not mind but I created my own channel and did a video of which I have used a few clips of you from your videos to promote you and for others to see where I got my inspiration from and my channel is based on being outdoors, camping and so on while living with limitations, so I hope you do not mind me doing this and should it be a problem please let me know and of course I will respect your wishes. My channel if you wish to watch the video is at th-cam.com/channels/nvGYskLr2oOWBA06ggbKlQ.html and so far, the only video on my channel but I have plans to make a lot more. As you see I am an amateur when it comes to producing videos LOL but I will learn over time. Thank you for inspiring me through your channel and please keep up the fantastic work.
Of the hundreds of vids of the auroras, this vid gave me goose bumps.
What a lucky coincidence that you were out on that night and had spectacularly clear skies and your high quality recording.
Thank you, still can't believe my luck :) 💜
Wow wow best place to get the full impact of the lights
So so jealous thanks for sharing
How very beautiful, both the northern lights and you experiencing them.
Hi beare ,bloody lush camp .and an amazing light show
Thanks so much for posting such beautiful images, truly stunning. Thanks.
TY, great to see you see this. Wonderfull experience you had there.
It was so lovely to see your awe & wonder as you watched this, it made think about what our ancient ancestors must have felt...! Watching this has made me feel better about snoring my way through the whole event, no one thought to mention it..! It was just beautiful, thank you... X
Two wonderful things met. A WildBeare and Northern Lights. So glad you saw them :) Much love for you!
Hehe thanks! :) 💜
You were so blessed to see this and then be able to share with us 🙏 ✨️ 💕 i totally get how you may have felt on your own, with no one to talk to about it. Thanks Claire Bear 🐻 xx
I’m at 41° N, 91° W, and the aurora was visible here as well. The vivid purple color indicated that it was indeed an intense solar storm. Your imagery is amazing and beautiful. Thanks.
Btw, I get replies that ask me to respond on Telegram, but I don’t use that app, because it seems a bit sketchy to me; I think it’s possibly someone trying to entice me somehow.
"Let me get dressed".......then appears in even less clothing than she had on! Excellent stuff from our best and favourite camping Beare. Never change, Clare, you are so entertaining. Good🍀Luck and keep safe. 💝
Three amazing, beautiful things in one video. The northern lights, the views, and......yourself. ❤
Ahh thanks 💜
Many of us were forewarned and prepared, but still amazed and mesmerized. We had stupendous views in mid Ontario. That this was a surprise for you adds a whole new element. Thanks for sharing!
makes us feel so small, doesn't it. so glad you experienced that.
I am also touched by all your thoughts and musings at the end of most videos, this one for sure. It was a beautiful night.
The solar eclipse, extreme solar flair aurora borealis, are somethings that feels like it wakes up the inner connection within us that we have with mother Earth, and just makes us wanna live in that moment for as long as possible, I understand how you felt, when you said just watching the footage and it made you cry, being blessed by nature is very moving.
This is the first time that I really understood that many people have never or rarely seen the Northern Lights, whereas for me in northern Minnesota (USA) they appear multiple times a week in the summer. Regardless of how often they appear, they are simply majestic, and never fail to thrill..
Solar storm u right place right time god bless u I missed it its an experience
Beautiful to watch that.
You could see you were shocked, stunned by it, the brain trying to process something that doesn't seem normal or possible.
No wonder you stayed up until 3am watching it.
That's one memory you'll never forget, thank you for sharing it.
Beautiful footage ❤
I really didn't know what to make of it all 😄 so special. Thanks for sharing it with me :)
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Something great about you is you reply to people and you reply pretty quickly.
That must be difficult because you have many and it must be crazy, you reach a point Shut up now, I need my wine.
Other big channels all seem to wait for about 2 days before replying 🤦🏻😁
You have way more messages.
I've seen it with smaller channels like mine, the ones smaller think that's how I need to do it. No you don't you 5 comments to say thank you to😁
I need no reply, honestly, you already have and than you. I would just watch before and not comment.
You are a good un. Never change😉👋💛
I've said before your videos have a feel good factor, but I couldn't put my finger on it.
Your closing statement in the video though... that said everything. Thank you for sharing this 🙂
Thanks for sharing it with me 🤗💜
A special experience for a special girl. If anyone deserved to see that amazing sky it was our wild one. You give so much of yourself and share so many of your fantastic trips with all of us and it’s brilliant that you got that wonderful experience, even though it was probably a bit scary too!! Thank you so much for posting. Happy camping xx
This same event happened to me in 2013 while I was solo camping in South Central Utah. I crawled into my little tent about 10pm, opened my eyes a few moments later and the sky exploded with color that lasted 3 hours. I sat there awestruck and also wanted someone to share it with, but i too was out of cellphone range. Most incredible experience of my night as well.
I just moved from Wales to the US a few weeks ago, seeing the northern lights are top of my bucket list, I'm so so sad I moved right before we got them in the UK. Thanks for sharing the beautiful footage of them!
Ahh what a shame, crazy to have them down here, and so intense 😮 hope you're settling nice over the pond :) 💜
We saw the northern lights in the Midwest! 😊
The recent (and significant) solar storm made the northern lights and the southern hemisphere equivalents something extraordinary this time round. They were visible from most parts of the world. Many of us might not see the likes of these again.
May I come and sit with you, on your hill, next time round? 😇 😃
Here in the southern hemisphere (Australia) we had our own version - they call it Aurora Australis - it was equally magnificent and I had the pleasure of observing from a remote and isolated place on top of a hill too. Just magnificent.
@@BillSaltbushsounds amazing 🤩 Hello 👋 from Poland 🇵🇱 and rural life ( channel)
The USA is in general much better to watch them then Europe. The geomagentical pole is not situated at the north pole. If you live north of 40 degrees in the USA you are in a better position than we in Europe at 50 degrees. People in states like Minnesota, Montana and North Dakota see these displays I think at least once or twice per year.
Those are breathtaking shots of the northern lights. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks for sharing this and your comments. It was visible here in Australia for some but in Sydney we had overcast skies and rain during the event so have relied on the wonderful images provided and shared by others. Thanks again for all your work and how you share the simplicity and awe of the outdoors to keep us connected with our shared experience and reminder that we need to care for this delicate existence.
Amazing photography, Claire. Thanks for sharing. Beautiful scenery too.
Experienced the Northern Lights in the Scottish highlands Friday night also. I’d never seen anything like it before either, the whole sky was illuminated with blends of reds, purples, greens and moved so quickly like a cosmic waterfall. Just stood for ages staring up at the night sky, and watching the changing shapes. It was so bright, even the ground was reflecting all the colours. Your video really does do it justice, and i’m glad you posted it for a permanent memory of nature’s beauty. Thank you for sharing.
I was on Isle of Skye Friday night and it felt like I was standing right below the Aurora "dome"(?) that is visible in the video. Breathtaking. Was my first time in Scotland too
So glad you got to see it too! Ahh man, it was something else wasn't it.. those big beams coming down were insane! Thanks for watching :)
Aye, the lassie did weel, didn't she?
@@otherworldly1034 it is called the corona. It means you are precisely under it. At some point here in The Netherlands you had to look to the south to see them! ANd that was surely also the case in Scotland and Wales.
We got to experience this too in the beautiful PNW. awestruck!
So glad you saw it too 😃💚💙💜
You were in a perfect spot to witness such a fantastic aurora. It might have been a once in a lifetime experience. I'm 61 and have never seen such a strong aurora before the one that night. Thank you for sharing your experience.
What an amazing experience being able to experience the fear and awe in the same way our ancestors might have felt when seeing something like this and not having any way of knowing what was going on. So glad you were filming that day and set up where you did. The shots you captured are magnificent!
What a crazy coincidence, but you go the experience of a lifetime. You could see it from everywhere even in the city where I'm from! So cool you got to document it. Those are memories forever!
8 X Class Solar Flares in a couple day span and your intuition took you to a perfect spot. You are very in tune Claire. Thanks for sharing it was cloudy where I live and I had hoped to see the Lights. It is a bigger stretch as I am further South in America than you are in Wales. Thanks again, get some rest! 😊
Some friends posted the Auroras in Australia and managed to get some great pictures not far from Melbourne so you might have seen it if it wasn't cloudy.
It really did, had no idea what was going on haha, sorry you missed them ☁️☁️💜
@@nsean479 Melbourne might not seem like a good place to watch them, but in reality it is not far worse than central Wales. The geomagentic poles are not situated on the geographical one. This means that New Zealnd en the USA are in a much better position to see them than people in Wales are. And Melbourne enjoys this advantage too to a lesser extend.
Claire WildBeare you have warmed my heart yet again. I have always dreamed of seeing the Aurora Borealis, and girly you in the damn thing. Awesome Sauce. You are awesome and I always enjoy your dialogue and excursions.😉 💫
Magic is happening all over our skies at the moment. We had Australia / Southern Borealis active in Tasmania and MELBOURNE Australia 🇦🇺 last week. It was SO RARE, a once in a lifetime for a city. Everyone went to the beaches to see it if they could as it was not hindered by city light. It was brilliant Pinks, Greens, ribbon formations, and then the lights dancing across the sky. Lasted quite a while too. So humbling. Plenty of pictures if anyone wants to check it out. ❤❤❤
I see this stuff up here all the time, and I'm so glad you've seen them and got them on video :)
The aurora is one of the main things that made me move up to the north coast.
Ahh that's amazing that you see them all the time! I've only seen them once before in Iceland and they were like a green smudge, couldn't believe the intensity of these 😍💜
@@WildBeare This really was a once in a lifetime thing. I don't think there's ever been a KP storm like this in my lifetime and I doubt there will be again.
I'm really pleased you were out on a camp that night though. I can't wait to see the full video :)
I wasn’t expecting it - I just went out to lock the garage before going to bed, saw an unusual whitish glow so got my phone to take a picture, and wow! I saw what you saw. So beautiful. I thought of Psalm 19 "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork." 😊
Amen to that. Bushyboy Oz
That was my experience of seeing the northern lights here in the Scottish Borders last year too. I'd heard and seen footage that the sky turns green and purple etc but all we saw with the naked eye was gradually moving vertical curtains of what looked like misty cloud. People put wonderful colourful pictures on the local facebook page of that night and I read that not everyone sees the colours without looking through a much more sensitive camera lens that brings out the colours. I didn't bother looking out on Saturday night but a lad told us on Sunday morning that he saw faint colours in the sky from his remote hillside home.
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@@agnesskibicka dobry dzień 😊
@@moose99moose dzień dobry!! :0
Well whatever it is, you got to experience it firsthand!!! And thanks to your video I also get to experience it!!!!
Hi Claire. I’m an expat living in Sydney and saw all the posts from everyone back home about this. Looks like you got ringside seats ! No better place to be than in the hills away from light pollution. I’m pretty jealous but so happy you managed to get such great images and thank you for sharing them with us.
Does make you question the powers of the sun and shows that we are just tiny specs observing such phenomena.
Glad I could watch them with you from the other side of the globe.
💚💙💜
Wow you captured that sky on film perfectly, best footage of the aurora I have seen.
Great to see your reaction Claire 😮😵💫😊. Imagine the effect that this type of thing would have had on Neolithic and earlier cultures who didn’t have the benefit of science to explain this phenomenon. So glad you got to see it 💖💙💚
Ita kinda amazing that you experienced this in the way humans would have for generations before technology... Unknowingly, ignorantly blissful to a real wonder of the universe. Theres magic in that ♥️
What a beautiful and magical experience, even though it was a little scary too. Lots of emotions but worth every moment in time 🌌 💜
You are a true Sprite! It is rare for others like myself to be able to experience the Nature of Those like Your Self being as You are. I am grateful!
To be camping under that incredible display....I am GREEN with envy.
You're so lucky, I missed them. Right time and a perfect place to see them, also some of the best video I've seen. Thank you for sharing your video 🙂
I lived vicariously through you seeing your genuine astonishment unaware of the reason for the spectacular light display. I knew the lights would be coming shortly before they arrived and really tried to see them but the lights of the city were too strong. I keep coming back to re-watch this video and keep getting this goose flesh (goosebumps). It's so exhilarating. I'm so glad you got to experience it without foreknowledge of it. And the fact you recorded it too. Talk about a once in several lifetimes chance. Thank you for letting us experience it through your eyes.😊
Fate guided you to a front row light show courtesy of Mother Nature. 🥹 I got choked up, Claire. So breathtaking. There was too much light pollution here to catch it, but by God, you caught it right by the tail. Thank you so much for this remarkable footage. ❤️
wow the best footage i have seen of the event , i have wanted to see them all my life and still missed this due to cloud , so thank you Claire you deserve the privilege of such a viewpoint
Congratulations on being out in the wild and getting to see one of natures most beautiful displays….
So happy you weren’t huddled up under a tarp in the pouring rain and missing out on this….lol 👍🏻💙🍻😎
Thank you Claire for always making us feel like we are there with you. Love from Texas ❤
Thanks for coming along :D best wishes from UK 👋💜
What a magical, unexpected moment. It's like beautiful colours painted on the sky, an art display. Pity you were half thinking it might be the apocalypse. I can totally see how it might have been a bit unsettling in the absence of information or communications.
This is lovely Claire. So glad you got to see it...
Love the music you chose for your time lapse!
I love the sound of your voice. I mean the literal sound. It's like faeries dancing on moonlight.
Wish you could have just enjoyed it without all the worry. Northern lights are beautiful. They don't always look like that, but they are always just as beautiful!
Ahhh, that is really fate. You are always opening up your Heart to Life, and in return Life opened Its Heart to You... Well deserved. Thanks for always sharing with Us.
Your tent position blends in well with the northern lights
I believe it met for you a give from the universe 🌌 😢❤I got emotional when I saw it in this video
So intense 😮 beautiful, wonderful to share this with you 🙂 not sure how I would have felt witnessing this as you did. 🙌
Here I am still kicking myself that I missed the report on the CME and thus didn't bother to go out and try to see however much we got, and turns out there are people who just happened to be in the perfect viewing spot for the greatest show in more than a century! Time to kick myself even HARDER and hope when that sunspot cluster makes it back around it gives me another chance.
Something i have wanted this lifetime so far to see -
i am thankful someone so unique as yourself was gifted with this sight. All the more magical in that you had not sought or expected it.
Thank you for sharing it with us -
The old Channel Four logo in the sky at the end was especially magical.
They were amazing weren't they? I get alerts from an app, but ive had 100+ alerts over the years and not seen much at all - then blammo! We were giddy like children at Christmas, it was just fantastic seeing them in their full glory.
We're exactly the opposite side from beautiful Wales in Lincolnshire but had the same experience. Breathtaking.
You’ve set the bar very high for your future videos, Claire! That was breath taking and thank you so much for sharing it with us. I don’t think you ended up at that site by chance. You were led there so that your photographic, editing and oratory skills could bring something truly beautiful to us. In a troubled world, your videos show us the beauty that still exists. You are one very talented and inspirational woman. Keep safe on your adventures.
Living in Northern Canada, we see Northern lights often, but that night they were absolutely spectacular!!! So glad you were able to enjoy such a show!
Northern lights are a regular occurrence where I live. Sometimes it's strong, vivid, green, purple and pink, other times it's just a pale, green haze. Sometimes it shifts fast across the sky, like a snake or like it's coming down like swords to poke you, lighting up the world, and sometimes it's docile, just twinkling a bit. Either way, it still brings tears to my eyes! I don't think you ever can be indifferent to it! You get reminded of how small you are, and how magnificently magical the world is! 💖
Beautiful violet flowers 💐 reminds me of picking flowers for my mother who passed away many years now .
Hi Claire from New Zealand. We too had this experience on the South Island. We lay on our backs just marveling at the fantastic display nature put on. For 2 hours we watched in near disbelief.
Truly humbling experience. Clare you are blessed being so lucky to witness the majesty & beauty of nature in all it's glory.
Just my luck. I was in Scotland, camping, knew about these but... I was knackered from going up a mountain so fell asleep while waiting in my tent. Also it was cloudy so not sure how well they would have been visible anyway. Ah well maybe next time. Great video as always.
Clare it was the heavens smiling 😊 upon you! And how beautiful you are ❤with your heart of gold and a spirit of a lion taking on challenges with the unknown? Awesome pic’s you Captured btw
Wow! The right time, place, equipment and abilities. It was luck that you were there, but your photo skill that that made the video a reality. Thank you for posting WildBeare!
That was totally an amazing sight. Thank you for being there to share with us the wonderful display of lights in the sky. Never seen anything quite like it, ever.
I'm 60 and was whooping about like a big kid in my garden in Dorset. Can't , believe all of the UK was treated to such an amazing spectacle.
Thank God the batteries didn't fail you. Thanks for taking us all with you