In 1877, George Seton, a visitor to the tiny Scottish archipelago of St. Kilda, observed that the men living there had an unusual physiological characteristic. “The great toes of the cragsmen are ...
The 85-mile boat ride through rough seas left some of us huddling in discomfort. But the scenery on the remote and windswept islands was otherworldly. The spindly island of Dùn, with the adjacent ...
Winters in the windswept Scottish St. Kilda islands have gotten steadily warmer over the past 20 years and the rising temperatures are whittling away the islands' number of black sheep, replacing them ...