Winter in Donegal – Photos from a Mountaineer

Dec 26, 2012 4 Comments by

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 [...]

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Rock Climbing in Ireland – Donegal Delights

Jun 26, 2012 3 Comments

Those rocks there, yeah, those ones sticking out of Donegal’s Coast, bit to the left, no…just over the..yes. Those. You can climb them. With a little help… Meet help. Meet mountaineer Iain Millar, the man on the rocks, the man behind Unique Ascent and the man who we’re about to interview to wean ourselves onto [...]

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Making Waves: Learning to Surf in Ireland

Apr 13, 2012 3 Comments

You’ve seen the videos: the monstrous Atlantic rollers that lash the Sligo and Donegal coast are some of the biggest in the world, and attract some of the best riders in the world to tame them. But what if you don’t have a trophy cabinet of little golden surfboards, or have never even stood on [...]

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The Northern Lights come to Donegal

Feb 01, 2012 10 Comments

The world stopped and stared when the Northern Lights descended as far as Donegal’s north coast in January. Rarely are they spotted so far south and local Inishowen photographers were out in force to capture it. Now for the science bit: The Aurora Borealis occurs when ionised particles from the sun hit the Earth’s atmosphere [...]

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