Attempting to Climb Ireland's Dangerous Mountain | Carrauntoohil (Peak 4/50)

Carrauntoohil is definitely not for the faint-hearted or inexperienced. Weather conditions can change in an instant and if you are new to the hiking world, getting a guide is the safest thing to do. If you don't know how to navigate, or hike in poor conditions, please go with someone - stay safe my friends!
I had excellent conditions and prepared for my walk. I'm told it's rare for the area to be so clear, and I climbed in mid-May. In winter, you would need an ice axe, helmet, and appropriate winter gear.
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[@NatashaBergen]

🚨The Ultimate Hiking Guide to Carauntoohil, Ireland: www.natashabergen.com/irelandguide 💪This is perfect for you if you want to save time and be fully prepared for a new Irish hiking journey! Happy adventures friends!

[@hubertlavelle7554]

Well done darling thanks for the trip

[@relax9056]

Yayyye! Finally a new peak conquered! Good job Natasha! You're doing fine. And you've made new friends too. Thank you so much for taking us along.

[@NatashaBergen]

Whoop whoop!! Mountain climbing season is open! 🤩 I’m happy you are along for the ride too ☺️

[@sylvieolah4177]

I love starting my day with one of your video! Always keeps my focused on keeping the right attitude to conquer my day. Love you pumpkin

[@NatashaBergen]

That makes me so happy to hear! :) You CAN conquer anything 💛

[@leffee5381]

BIG CONGRATULATIONS Natasha 👍🥇🐐💪🎇🎁🎷🥁🧁 Love to see your love of nature, Gaia 🥰

[@NatashaBergen]

Thanks Leffe!! We share the same love! 😁😁😁

[@Dave.noises]

Great video - climbed Carrauntoohil twice, can't wait to go again, it's addictive 🙂

[@sylvieolah4177]

So exciting. You go girl

[@NatashaBergen]

Thank you!! :)

[@BICYKLOMAN]

Congratulations. Best regards

[@SinaFarhat]

Good work! :) What a view!

[@NatashaBergen]

A stunner indeed 🤩

[@paulsavona2095]

Thanks for this. Will be doing this route towards the end of March. Very insightful and really, really enjoyed your personable video and narration. Well done 👍

[@NatashaBergen]

I hope you enjoy the hike Paul! :) Let me know how it goes!

[@damianmcdonagh7908]

Great video thanks for posting. I love hiking in the west of Ireland. Mweelrea Mountain is spectacular via the Ramp route.

[@NatashaBergen]

Hey Damian! Thanks for sharing 😁 I’ll take note for next time I’m in the area 🤩

[@gabrielleszafir]

Celebrating you and your journey all the way over here in the US! Thank you for bringing us along for the journey - it's so powerful to watch you find your way and persevere. One of my favourite moments of the video is when you included the part of you talking to yourself to keep your head in the right headspace. As a fellow KZbinr I know it can feel sort of vulnerable to leave stuff like that in but I'm so grateful that you do. I hiked on the Appalachian Trail for 8 weeks here in the US (don't know how many hundreds of miles I ended up doing) but throughout that experience, talking to myself and watching my mind was the HUGEST thing and it's great that you include that part of this journey because it's so real! Thank you for what you're doing, so inspiring! 💛 Sending love from the Southwest US

[@NatashaBergen]

Thanks lovely! I appreciate all the support and yeah super weird to show that I’m talking to myself but it helps to say it out loud sometimes 😊 Sounds like you had a wicked time on the Appalachian 💛

[@NatashaBergen]

And good for you!! 8 freaking weeks?! That’s insane!!

[@murman6140]

Loved the video. Well done!

[@NatashaBergen]

Thanks my friend!

[@hikesome]

Such a nice video of your outdoor adventure and a great source of inspiration for my hikes in the Balkan mountains in the coming weeks ;)

[@NatashaBergen]

Hey Mario!! Power to you! I hope you ‘rock’ it! 🤣 I may see you out there 😁 (That’s where I currently am)

[@robsmithadventures1537]

Very cool. I'm Irish from Waterford (founded by Norwegian Vikings!) I am glad you enjoyed your time in Ireland. I feel ashamed that I've never been to Carrauntoohill. Kerry is very beautiful and magical place and every landscape there is like a painting.

[@NatashaBergen]

Wow you described it so beautifully 🤩 it’s such a magical place! Very cool that Waterford was Viking related 😲

[@22grena]

Waterford founded by the native Irish. Foreigners built some houses

[@EventyrsorenDenmark]

Hi.What a wonderful video.Thanks for sharing with us.I enjoyed it very much. Hope to see more from your channel soon. Have a great day. Greting from Danmark.

[@NatashaBergen]

Hey friend!! Happy to hear you liked it! :) Another one is coming soon indeed 💚 Maybe we’ll cross paths to in Denmark one day!

[@nornironnomad]

The devil's ladder is definitely not easy, but on our way up we encountered a 70 year old gentleman who had just summited in 2 hours 15 minutes! I liked your video, you have a new subsciber!

[@nick.caffrey]

I never tried going up the Devil's Ladder, but came down it once. Beautifully done video. Thank you for your kind mentions of Ireland and her people. WE NEED MORE WALKERS!!! They understand things properly.

[@MrTuxy]

Devil's ladder is one of the safer and easiest router routes.

[@1roise]

Great video well done

[@NatashaBergen]

Thanks 🤩

[@annexplores3933]

Well done Natasha! Came across your channel. Looks like a promising mountain to try on. Hello from Northern Ireland.

[@NatashaBergen]

Hello Ann! Thanks for the lovely comment :) I hope Northern Ireland is treating you well! :)

[@mairepcod4063]

Thanks,

[@God-dt7om]

Hope you enjoyed Ireland. Our cities are gone to hell but the country side is fab.

[@chrishiking8818]

Great video this mountain always been on my list . I always like the hard routes up because it's a challenge but just nice to push yourself. Take care

[@NatashaBergen]

Awesome!! Hope you get a chance to go up! There’s some nice challenging routes you might like 😉

[@chrishiking8818]

@@NatashaBergen thanks for that , done ben Nevis and Snowden up and down the hard ways and was totally big challenge 👍 and a lot in Europe too.

[@rogercantwell1120]

That mountain is a good hour walk to the base and then you climb not too difficult in good conditions but when the rain bad weather and snow comes… Anyway lovely climb. Especially in summer.

[@mojaslovenija9903]

tx for the video, helping me visualizing the trail. Going there next week, hoping for at leas one day of sun.

[@NatashaBergen]

Brilliant!! I hope you enjoy it!! 🤩 Let me know how it goes!

[@mojaslovenija9903]

@@NatashaBergen Hi, I did the "Horse Shoe" trail ... did a 360/3D visualization , about 20-50 m stops/ 15, including all thre tops of the Ireland. I am now allaready processinbg the photogramerty and data in my graphic stations , will be ready for the use with HMD (Head mounted diplay) or "just" internet virtual walk until next January. I had a luck with clear weather most of time, only at the Bones was a short time foggy. Had a great time and returning in April/May to visualize the Kerry way (200 + km) and Beara Way. I also completed a 360/3D virtual tour of the "Star Wars Island" - Skellig Michael.

[@novicetheaf]

Always meet some interesting people at the top of a mountain 😁👌

[@NatashaBergen]

So true! The hiking community is my fave 😊 (other than you lot ;) )

[@VentureGroms]

This makes me so happy. You killed that hike!! For the first section of it, I was really curious why people are known to get hurt on that one, it looked like a really easy and peaceful hike!! Until that devil's ladder, that made it make sense lol

[@NatashaBergen]

Haha oh yes my thoughts exactly… and even coming down it was so steep and if 🙈 I couldn’t imagine doing the hike in the rain or clouds 😬

[@bestie_1014]

Go on ya girl yee! good on you 👏🏻 I am from the North of Ireland near Belfast and you will will have to come back and climb Slieve Donard up in the Mourne mountains. It is not as high as carrauntoohil but just as rewarding. I am a tour guide around Ireland Scotland and Wales, you should do Ben Nevis and Snowdon as well as Donard. If you are coming let me know and I can help you out. Great channel ❤ wish you all the best Slàinte agus Go n-eirí an t-ádh leat 🤗

[@NatashaBergen]

Thank you! Lovely to feel the positivity!! Defo will be heading back, and soon! I had to add Northern Ireland to the list after I experienced so much beauty the first time 🤩 It’s as if you’re reading my mind, I’d also like to do the 3 peak challenge 😁 I’ll be sure to reach out 🙌

[@seanmcgoldrick1702]

Great video! Done Carruntoohil back in 2016. Pretty experienced hiker at that point and had done all the peaks here beforehand (I'm from here!). I was a bit cocky on it going up tbh. I was training for 3 peaks challenge in UK - was fit and mentally ready etc. Went up the ladder decent time. But made the mistake of going down it aswell. Slipped and broke my ankle.! Slipped a good 6-7 feet and landed on left ankle and just knew something was wrong. My mate from work was with me. Had to go down parts of it on my arse but got down. Went back to the B and B in Annascaul (Across the road from the South Pole inn) Another reason why I wanted to go! I'll do it again soon. Always swore I would never go back but I will! Different route though!

[@NatashaBergen]

HOLY SHIT MATE! I’m sitting here drinking my coffee and nearly spilt it while reading! I can’t believe it 😬 Ouf I feel the pain, yikes! Good thing you were with someone else eh? BUT all that said I’m glad you wanna go back again - that shows grit! I’ve heard O’Shea’s Gully is a great route too! Let me know how it goes when you conquer it next time, I’m routing for yah! 😁

[@jaykey8092]

You are really good. I had sweaty hands only by seeing you climbing up. But you know what, I saw the other way how to get there, which is Brother O'Shea's Guly and it looked even more dangerous. I think the most safe (from those three) is Caher Route even though it is little bit longer.

[@NatashaBergen]

Haha sorry to make you sweat 😝 Yeah I think you’re right, I’ve heard there are many paths some more intense than others 😅😂

[@quinlando]

Nice work. Hard to beat kerry

[@gumzy1985]

From Ireland I loved the climb,was tough up the Devils ladder but I literally ran back down 😂

[@NatashaBergen]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! The devils ladder was definitely a very hard part of this hike.

[@nodalaigh]

@@NatashaBergen Great video. I go up Carrauntoohill about twice every year, always up & down the Devil's Ladder. Was there on Monday this week, amazing day / full sunshine all day, but I fell twice on the way back down the Ladder, and nearly fell a few more times. It has become too unstable in that gully, especially near the top. Zig zags next time for me 🙂

[@jesusmagas7096]

You will be exhausted after that hike

[@user-tn1vu1jt2t]

Hello, how are you? Love your videos are you ever coming back to Ireland to do more walks I have so many questions as a beginner Walker

[@NatashaBergen]

For sure will be coming back! Plan to this year 😄

[@user-tn1vu1jt2t]

Please let me know when you’re back. I’d love to do a hike with you love the videos thank you

[@unaoconnor3628]

You were lucky to get good visibility at the summit 🇮🇪

[@NatashaBergen]

So I’m told! 😁 Absolutely stunning area! You’ve been have you?!

[@sdemosi]

Exactly what I was thinking. I'm doing this again over the Summer and I understand it's mostly covered in clouds. That's been my experience of the Reeks anyway.

[@kpj5]

So funny, I thought you were maybe German with American learnt English.. then I heard an Irish twang.. 😂.. then you said “route” and I knew a Newfi!

[@NatashaBergen]

Hehe you’ve got a good ear! Defo Canadian! 🤩

[@zenith7024]

I climbed carauntoohil via the devil's ladder in wet conditions with my brother back in 2013, wearing only trainers and carrying my tripod, leaving me with only one hand for grabbing rocks. It wasn't so bad, but on the way down I realised there was an easier but longer way to the left lol...you got great weather, when I got to the summit it was covered in cloud

[@NatashaBergen]

Yikes!! I’m glad you made up safe 😁 I hope you got some good shots for having brought the tripod up! 😊

[@zenith7024]

@@NatashaBergen I got some shots but nothing spectacular, was too misty for good photos. I read that you intend to climb all the high European peaks, so I guess you will tackle mount blanc at some stage? That is a great project, you will have many adventures along the way, I will follow your channel from time to time and see how you get on, in the mean time good luck my friend :)

[@NatashaBergen]

@@zenith7024 brilliant but even sometimes the cloud can be nice 😁 Yup you got it, Mont Blanc in a few months if all goes planned and there are some bigger ones I’ll go on to do as well 😁 Thanks for joining in! Maybe I’ll see on a path someday 😊

[@zenith7024]

@@NatashaBergen yes that's true but in Ireland we have too many clouds lol...ye you never know when we could cross paths, in the mean time good luck with the next peak my friend, all the best :)

[@oneill765]

I was wondering the whole time where is thst accent from, sounds Irish Scottish American all at once. Yup the Newfies! Fair play.

[@soulrebel2531]

Your beautyfull I could watch you all day, in Ireland people greet one and other by saying all right mate

[@victordevonshire807]

Wow that is so beautiful. Been invited and never been. Wanted to. The nearest I have been is Islay in Scotland and I never wanted to go home. Love it. Born in London. But f**k flags I'm child of the universe. 🤠❤👍🙏

[@EireFirst2024]

You're a loveable girdle.. Canadian = sooo bloody Irish girl 🇮🇪✊

[@NatashaBergen]

Weeee! Thanks Kevin! You’re a legend!!

[@thekerryman]

nice video but there is phone reception more or less throughout

[@NatashaBergen]

Lucky you! 🙌 I didn’t have any with my Spanish SIM card 😂 Glad you liked the vid!

[@thekerryman]

@@NatashaBergen strange, did you have coverage in Killarney?

[@BICYKLOMAN]

After all, why the Crown of Europe and not another continent?

[@NatashaBergen]

Because I live here 🙌 It's more affordable than flying to another continent all the time

[@BICYKLOMAN]

I asked because I have the same problem. Good luck and I hope you conquer all the peaks soon.

[@---df5sr]

“You could die” ?!? It’s where i walk my dog you silly girl

[@NatashaBergen]

It’s a KZbin video mate 😉 enjoy your walks! You’re very lucky to be in such a lovely area! 🙌