North Peak, Skellig Michael, Co. KerryThe North Peak of Skellig Michael is a place that resists description. It's a blade of rock, nearly 200 metres of it, rising straight out of the Atlantic with a violence that feels geological and personal at the same time. I need to stop doing that. It's just extraordinarily steep. This was made on a clear evening with the sun dropping toward the southwest, throwing warm light across the layered cliff faces and picking out every ledge and fissure.