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Mick Fowler and Chris Harle have made the first ascent of the Devil's Castle sea stack in County Kerry off the west coast of Ireland, via a two-pitch line. The stack is located just off the Bromore Cliffs in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Hurrah! Awsome to hear Micks still getting out having ridiculous adventures after his illnesses. Inspirational, hope I've got another 30 years of this sort of thing ahead of me.

An 'Irish Sea Stack', in the Atlantic Ocean .... ?

It's an Irish sea stack but not an Irish Sea stack.

But the title says 'Irish Sea Stack'.

In an era seemingly dominated by performance orientated articles such as "the hardest move" it's truly refreshing to see an article just about having a good honest adventure. Mick is and always has been the king of a good adventure.

More important to the pedant is surely whether it is a sea stack if it's in an ocean and not a sea. 

Amazing. Its kind of incredible and inspiring that there are still first ascents of summits to be had so close to home.

Yes I see that. I was proposing the correct form.

The title is in title case.

The title has been altered. A crucial win for the cause of unambiguous journalistic accuracy.  And the anti-pedantrist downvoter can now stop taking life so seriously.

Great to see Mick still out Fell Running a lot, and the b**tard beat me last year. Still I beat him at Jura a few years ago.

So 

Bloody 

Excellent.

Like a blast from the past. Love it

Excellent. (And a nice blast from the past: I remember an article about the original 'Deflower' in Mountain magazine, a long time ago.)

If Mr Fowler can continue to do all with this with his arsehole removed and stitched up, and with half his bowels missing, then there is no excuse for any of us: just crack on with what you've got, and enjoy it.

Yeah he was racing Mount Famine today. If I’m having fun fell running at 60+ having had cancer I’d consider that a success. And if I could climb a hundredth of the routes he’s done that would be good too. Top bloke.

Outstanding. Just reading the thread title made my heart rate go up and my palms start to sweat, with a faint whiff of Fowler-route associated nausea.

Mick is pulling off the rare trick of getting even more inspirational as he ages. I haven't felt quite so hopeless since Jamie Andrew finished ahead of us in the LAMM a few years back (with neither hands nor feet yet somehow still able to navigate, run, scramble, pitch the tent etc on a mountain marathon).

Chapeau!

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After turning 60 this is exactly the inspirational stuff I need to see, not some (admittedly brilliant) adolescent doing a new 9b+ (grrrr).

And running in a certain, fairly tough, cat AL race on an inner hebrides island next weekend, also.

Mick said he's looking forward to climbing harder with 2.5 kg of bowel removed

Losing 2.5kg by surgery.....

This sound like a 90's climbing anorexic throw back.

'Let my legs waste away as its just dead-weight on steep routes'.

I'm glad that's in the past.and well done Mick..