Tbf, I chose the dates :P so maybe it's me whose the oracle of good weather haha

Thanks so much Jen :)

Cheers Tim :)

Thanks so much :)

Thanks Drew! Appreciate the comment :) it’s really special in the big screen. Hopefully gonna do a couple more screenings early next year

Thanks so much for the lovely comment. You’re spot on, the story of the St kildans made it a lot more powerful. I felt very privileged to have the opportunity to share this story :)

I actually have! funnily enough, it was Scott our skipper in St kilda who was showing me recently as a suggestion for a future trip :) do you have much info on them?

It sure is!

@@RobbiePhillips The quality of this is awesome -- it's better than an episode of the BBC thing "The Great Climb". You should all be proud !

Haha wow! That's a brilliant compliment :D Well I am excited to say I've got more on the way ;) so stay tuned!

Thanks so much 😊

Haha Gavin! That’s right - we met in the car park didn’t we? Hope you’re keeping well :) glad you enjoyed the film

Thanks a lot! 😁

Thanks so much 😄

😁

Thanks Ben :)

Thanks :D KZbin isn't pushing this one for some reason though :/ If you enjoyed it, give it a wee share :D Always helps!

Thanks a lot freddy!

Thanks!

Thanks :) Oh I have no idea why that would be? KZbin is kinda annoying these days...

​@@RobbiePhillipsunfortunately yt promotes sh..t content for people with 5 seconds attention span. 8 hope that advertisers will realize that people like you have much more, hmmm, gotta say it- influence, on climbers than people with million fake 'followers'. PS those StKildeans had balls of steel.

@@middle-agedclimber haha yeah the St Kildans were incredible! makes me wonder what amazing feats were achieved by humans all over the world long before us! Also yeah, KZbin pushes what it thinks makes money. Unfortunately I do think the more standard YT climbing vids seem to be what the youngsters enjoy. But I'll just keep doing my thing :P

Thanks :D

No definitely not on ReelRock. Unless you came to one of my talks recently, you wouldn't have seen it

You think they'd be keen? I don't really bother with the festivals as it's a lot of extra work to enter haha

@RobbiePhillips I think they would, but yeah.. I am sure it's a bunch of work and it is far from major airports. I can imagine it might not be worth it to travel there yourself, but at least getting the film in there would be worth it!

@RobbiePhillips however speaking of history, we have a crag in ophir with a lot of history. First ascents from Royal Robbins to Henry barber.. Lynn Hill got the FFA on Ophir broke, pretty classic 12c

Sound amazing! I'll have a think - maybe I can just put the film in

WooP! Thanks man :D

Thanks so much for the lovely comment :) I am trying to keep the spirit of adventure in climbing alive through these videos. And of course I love sharing the magic of Scotland!

Thanks so much!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks a lot man! It was an incredible combo. Got some more sailing/climbing plans for summer 2025 :) Find yourself a friend with a boat! :P

Gabbro :) Thanks!

yeah sorry about that! I need to do some adjusting - they weren't noticeable on my headphones, but as soon as I had them on speakers I noticed it too

Thanks George!

Abso-bloody-lutely! I have two big ideas in my head of things I wanna do on St Kilda... one is of course to go back to Soay to the Great Wall!!! But I have another magical idea... I'll leave that one in my head for now :P

Thanks man! Ryan and Hugo smashed it with the cameras :D I should really make a "making of" film for this one, it;s one hell of a job!

@@RobbiePhillips You're welcome. Great idea.

Thanks so much man for the comment! It's true, you don't need to jump on a plane - we have it here in the British isles! I can't wait until spring arrives, I just wanna go explore more of the incredible places we have here :D

@@RobbiePhillips so true and yes I'm psyched for Spring too! Climbing nowhere near your grade but if you're ever looking someone to explore stuff with/arty collab. down Cornwall way then let me know! ;)

HAHA! I was wondering when someone would notice that :P My gf said I looked like a monkey haha

Cheers Marcus :D See you at ratho!

Haha well maybe complain to the camera guys, I used every nature shot I had :P To be honest with you, there was very little nature we could capture... we were climbing outside of the major bird nesting season (on purpose), so there were not many birds on the cliffs... just a few fulmars here and there. Gannets are on Boreray and Stac an Armin/Stac Lee, not where we were. There were no seals that we could see... I was on Pabbay this September and we got lots of seal footage, so you can look forward to that film in 2025 :) We did get some footage of the Soay sheep though, so that was cool. Re clickbait... well, it works! I don't have a problem with clickbait if it spells out whats in the film. I just don't like it when it's bending the truth, or just a plain lie. I try and make sure the title and thumbnail combined give a good illustration of what to expect, and ultimately I want as many people to see this film as possible, so if I have to use a wee bit clickbait, I will.

awww thanks :)

Glad you enjoyed it Haha! Well yeah, I think the main takeaway I got from this is that the Victorian era was not the birth of technical rock climbing... far from it!

Love it! Shame we never saw any puffins haha apart from the one shot from the early 1900's I slid in there

Cheers Kev :D

haha I'll take it! :D