Old Man of Hoy
The Old Man of Hoy is a surf pillar on the west coast of the Orcadian Isle of Hoy in Scotland . It is probably no more than 250 years old and could soon collapse. In the Orkneyinga saga , which was written around 1230, the Old Man of Hoy is not mentioned, nor is it on the Blaeus map from 1600. On this map, the place where the "old man" stands today is still part of the mainland . Hoy's McKenzie map from 1750 also shows the site as part of the mainland. The current shape was created by a storm in the 19th century, but erosion continues. In 1992, a forty-meter-long crack appeared, which resulted in an enormous piece overhanging. This is likely to collapse in the foreseeable future.
The rock is 137 meters high. It was first ascent in 1966 by Chris Bonington , Rusty Baillie and Tom Patey . Roger Holmes, Gus Hutchinson-Brown and Tim Emmett performed the first base jump from the Old Man of Hoy in 2008 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Jim Hansom: Old Man of Hoy . Retrieved January 25, 2014.
- ↑ The Old Man of Hoy . Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership Scheme. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
- ↑ Eric CF Bird (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the World's Coastal Landforms. Volume 1. Springer, Dordrecht et al. 2010, ISBN 978-1-402-08638-0 , p. 493.
- ↑ Roger Holmes: Old Man Of Hoy - BASE 1st Descent . Retrieved December 10, 2011.
Coordinates: 58 ° 53 ′ 10.6 " N , 3 ° 25 ′ 49.8" W.