Tour Scotland Summer travel video clip with Scottish music, of Sgùrr Dearg, Scottish Gaelic for '" red peak "' mountain in the Cuillin on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to the Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides. It is topped by the Inaccessible Pinnacle, colloquially referred to by mountaineers as the In Pin or In Pinn, a fin of rock measuring 150 feet along its longest edge. The Inaccessible Pinnacle was first climbed in 1880 by a pair of brothers, Charles and Lawrence Pilkington from Lancashire, England. They were guided to the foot of the climb from Sligachan via Coruisk and Bealach Coire na Banachdich by a local shepherd called John Mackenzie. In 2014 cyclist Danny MacAskill climbed Sgùrr Dearg without safety ropes, while carrying a mountain bike on his back.
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