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Scotland’s legendary sea stack: A hiker’s trail to the Old Man of Hoy

The red sandstone stack of the Old Man of Hoy is a joy to behold from a hike along the cliffs. It’s one of the UK’s highest rock stacks and soars 137m above the sea, but be quick – he’s approaching ...
Forbes

Driven To ‘Extinction’ By A Shipwreck, A 2001 Discovery Brought The ‘World’s Rarest Insect’ Back To Life

Considered extinct for over 80 years, a chance find on a sea stack where little survives has sparked hope for the future of the Lord Howe Island stick insect. When the SS Makambo ran aground on the ...
PlanetMountain

Climbing the Buggerru sea stack in Sardinia. By Maurizio Oviglia

Maurizio Oviglia recalls the 1987 first ascent of the Faraglione di Buggerru sea stack, located on the west coast of Sardinia, Italy, and reports about his newest creation, 'Kind of Blue', first ...
NBC 7 San Diego

Behold the ‘tree lobster': Rarest insect on earth now on view at San Diego Zoo

For years, scientists thought that the Lord Howe Island stick insect was extinct, the subject of predation by invasive rats on the remote island off Australia, but then a few were discovered on a ...
AOL

Climbers ascend remote St Kilda's Thumb sea stack

A rock climb in remote St Kilda first described by a Gaelic scholar more than 300 years ago has been tackled by a British team. Stac Biorach, a 70m (230ft) sea stack, is nicknamed The Thumb because St ...