News
10 July 2017
While the Old Man of Hoy was successfully conquered for the first time in the mid-1960s, people continue to find new ways to challenge themselves using the Orkney landmark.
Alexander Schulz didn’t climb to the top of the Old Man of Hoy. He walked there. That’s not to say he took the easy option though: he completed the the 137 metre crossing on a high wire.
In 2013, Red Szell, a keen English climber who lost his sight to degenerative condition called retinitis pigmentosa, became the first blind man to climb the Old Man of Hoy.
In 1967, 15 million people tuned in to watch six climbers ascending the Old Man of Hoy. This was one of the boldest outside broadcasts ever attempted by the BBC — sixteen tons of equipment had to be shipped by sea before being dragged for miles across trackless blanket bogs on giant sledges.
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