St Kilda
INTRODUCTION
West of the Outer Hebrides lie four thousand miles of open water with virtually no land between there and North America. Out there though is St. Kilda, a small group of rocky islands almost too far from the western seaboard of Harris to be seen. Yet a climb up Clisham, the highest hill in Harris, on a clear day would soon bring into full view the rocky stacks in the western horizon.
Often unapproachable in winter and shrouded in cloud and mist in summer, St. Kilda is home to one of the largest seabird colonies in the world. But up until the 1930s it was also home to a community that had had to adapt to the extreme wildness and remoteness of the place. Here we get a glimpse of that community and the peculiarities of the existence that was forced upon it.
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