Winter in Donegal – Photos from a Mountaineer

Iain Miller is a mountaineer living, working and playing in County Donegal’s outstanding mountain ranges.

Over the past three cold Irish winters, he has been exploring the frozen mountain ranges of County Donegal, seeking out and climbing as many previously unclimbed frozen waterfalls and ice cascades as daylight and minus temperatures allowed. He has written a free guide; the Winter Mountaineering in Donegal Guidebook.

He has seen some viewpoints that most of us can’t imagine ever being – lucky for us he brought a camera to these places.

Not Narnia – just better. Looking across from the summit of Slieve Sneacht

Looking across from the summit of Slieve Sneacht towards Dunlewy and Errigal Mountain as an approaching storm gathers in the West. The descent from Slieve Sneacht involved fighting through a 100kph blizzard as the sun and daylight disappeared at 3pm.