Solo Canyoning in the northwest Highlands of Scotland
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- Exploring some little known canyons in winter around Ullapool in the far northwest of Scotland. Even on the short winter days these trips don’t take too many hours to complete, but it’s pretty darn cold!
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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.
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00:00 Introduction
00:41 Hiking to the first canyon
03:26 Abseiling into the depths
05:07 Photographing the first canyon
05:59 Closing out on the first canyon
07:32 Entering the second canyon
10:26 Photographing the second canyon
12:14 The end of the road and closing credits
If you're trying to convince me to to move to Scotland, you're doing very well.
Love your intro there Fergus 😂👍 brilliant 🍻
Well done Feargus 👍Love your primal images too.
Thank you!
Remote gorges like these are so special, hardly visited, atmospheric and full of interesting plants, also see Barn Owls in them before. Be interesting to see what is beyond the waterfall barrier.
There's an amazing gorge called Eagles Fall in Glen Fyne GR NN 223 144 All best
Thanks for your comment and the tip about Glen Fyne. I'll check it out next time I'm around there. From a somewhat obscured view there are a couple of wonderful sections above the falls in Canaird canyon with deep pools and curved walls. But that's for another day :)
first time on your channel.great footage .thanks for time and effort you put into. i subscribed right away for more hopefully.double thumb up!
Thanks a lot. There will certainly be many more :)
Gorgeous..!...sorry...🙄
Thanks Mike. Why sorry?
@@feargusca very bad joke...!
Man I’m slow tonight, but I get it now!