In this short video Iain Miller paddles from An Port road end and free solos the landward arête of this outstanding seastack, Cnoc na Mara.

But where is the safety rope!?

THE Old Man of Hoy, in Orkney, is a spectacular sight. This vertical pillar, rising from the sea, 60m out from a sheer cliff-face, is 137 metres high and about 30m thick.