Qualla: The Storr https://qualla.com/the-storr en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/x/the-storr-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Storr https://qualla.com/the-storr The Storr: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-storr/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. In January 2012, a film crew from Ridley Scott's Prometheus arrived at the Old Man of Storr to shoot an alien planet. They could have saved the plane ticket. The fifty-metre basalt pinnacle, standing like a sentinel below the Storr's eastern cliffs, already looks like nothing on Earth -- a remnant of ancient landslips that shattered a volcanic ridge into a sculpture garden of rock towers, gullies, and tilted slabs. The area in front of those cliffs is called the Sanctuary, and the name fits: this is a place set apart, where geology has created something that feels less like a mountain and more like a cathedral ruin, open to the sky and to the horizontal rain that is Skye's most reliable weather.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/x/the-storr-wp/gf5x-the-storr-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Storr: The Longest Landslip in Britain https://qualla.com/the-storr/ Photo credit John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Storr sits on the Trotternish peninsula, the northernmost finger of Skye. Its eastern face is the product of the Trotternish landslip -- the longest such feature in Great Britain, a belt of collapsed terrain stretching for miles along the peninsula's spine. The mountain itsel...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/x/the-storr-wp/gf5x-the-storr-the-longest-landslip-in-britain.mp3 0:06 2 full The Storr: Walking the Sanctuary https://qualla.com/the-storr/ Photo credit Carol Walker, CC BY-SA 2.0. A well-constructed path leaves the A855 just north of Loch Leathan and climbs through a clearfell area that was once a conifer plantation. Most visitors go no further than the Sanctuary, content to wander among the pinnacles and crane their necks at the cliffs above. The Old Man ...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/x/the-storr-wp/gf5x-the-storr-walking-the-sanctuary.mp3 0:06 3 full The Storr: Art on the Mountain https://qualla.com/the-storr/ Photo credit Paul K. Strother, CC BY 3.0. In the summer of 2005, one of Britain's largest environmental artworks was staged on the walk up to Coire Faoin at the base of the Storr cliffs. Created by the Scottish arts company NVA and directed by Angus Farquhar, the installation included music by Geir Jenssen and Paul Mouns...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/x/the-storr-wp/gf5x-the-storr-art-on-the-mountain.mp3 0:06 4 full The Storr: Standing in the Sound https://qualla.com/the-storr/ Photo credit Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0. From the summit of the Storr, the view opens across the Sound of Raasay to the island of the same name, and beyond it to the Scottish mainland. To the south, the Black Cuillin ridge cuts the horizon. To the north, the Trotternish landslip extends toward the Quiraing. It is a view...

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