Photo gallery: Orkney Islands
440 photos of this climbing area (showing 1-24)
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Alice baking in the sun on Guns in the sky© Rogie Johnson, Jul 2025
South Face of the Old Man© Adam Hill
Striking gold at Yesnaby© Stanners, May 2025
Committing up on Dragonhead© Stanners, May 2025
Yesnaby Dreaming© Stanners, May 2025
Robbie seconding© Neil Morrison, Apr 2025
Tim seconding.© Neil Morrison, Apr 2025
Rankers repeating one of Yesnaby’s finest.© Neil Morrison, Apr 2025
Robbie on Birdman© Neil Morrison, Apr 2025
View from the top of Mucklehouse Wall ft. Dave T© Andy Donson, May 1991
Working the route at sunset© oliver.ghill91, May 2024
Pat on route© oliver.ghill91, Jun 2024
The line© oliver.ghill91, Jun 2024
View of North Gaulton Castle from mainland facing north.© Carla Huynh, Jun 2024
View of North Gaulton Castle from the mainland facing west© Carla Huynh, Jun 2024
On the mainland ledge before committing to the swim across© Carla Huynh, Jun 2024
Sam leading at the start of pitch 2© Carla Huynh, Jun 2024
St. John's head from the ferry on the way home© Stanners, May 2024
Grub fully engaged© Stanners, May 2024
Grub & Chub about to embark© Stanners, May 2024
James starting up the old man© LizzieAnna, Feb 2019
Summit photo from the University of Birmingham MC trip to the Old Man of Hoy in August 1979.© Dave Armstrong, Aug 1979
No need for unobtrusive belay/rap anchor when this is available.© d8vehinton, Apr 2024
The stack© art.gertner, Sep 2022