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Name: | Stac Lee |
Hill number: | 1641 |
Height: | 172.2m / 565ft |
RHB Section: | 25: St Kilda |
County/UA: | Na h-Eileanan Siar [Western Isles] |
Island: | Mono Tump island |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (100-199m), Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,1,Y) |
Grid ref: | NA 14222 04911 |
Summit feature: | flattened cairn on rock |
Drop: | 172.2m |
Col: | Sea |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 18 (1:25k) 460W |
Survey: | obvious summit |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 18 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
No words for it! Just brilliant!! Maybe a first winter ascent, notwithstanding the very many St Kildans who did this for a way of life: Much more impressive than my ascent. | garbo1103 | 03/12/2023 |
Brilliant day, great conditions. Landed standard point and up the gulley line to first rope section. Rick took seven up following the two guides with other three. Cut the corner on first zag to the climb which proved possible by a variant at VD. From the block on the ledge the final fault line was taken Alpine style all the way to bothy. Exultant summiting by the seven in great clear weather. Back same way to the block and 50m abseil back to near start point. All down by 3.30 (5 hrs) with 12 summiters. | nordicstar | 17/10/2015 |
Still looked impossible afterwards. Thanks | Martin R | 17/10/2015 |
Climbed this in perfect conditions with Tim Hamlet and Michael Earnshaw. It was Michael's final Marilyn. 9 others summited as part of our group. Footage from this ascent was first shown at the June 2016 MARHOF meeting in Girvan and can now be viewed here: https://youtu.be/jyBs5Fbjyxw | assynt_bob | 17/10/2015 |
By the tourist route, as described by nordicstar. Marilyn completion and 2500th Hump. | mae | 17/10/2015 |
Worked well climbing as rope of four with Rick leading. 50 m abseil from top of last climbing pitch was a great idea and speeded the descent. | jenx | 17/10/2015 |
Eddie's rope retrieval party - fantastic day. | Smudge | 17/10/2015 |
My final Marilyn! and the first ever completion of this list of ~1556 British summits. After a morning ascent of Stac an Armin. With Pete Ellis, led by Paul Reeve. Followed an hour later by Richard and Denise Mclellan with Eddie Dealtry (Eddie 2nd to complete the Marilyns). Standard south face route, roped all the way to the Bothy which is just below the summit slope. 7 hours round trip. Boat handling by Seumas of Seaharris. 1m swell, wind force 3-4 ENE, very lucky to get these conditions in Oct (NTS allow access only mid Oct thru mid March nowadays - this may have been the first non Summer ascent). Report https://mega.nz/file/ctBiGCLQ#lhG4dYkhPeZJfdDbqKLPkJpuVhetFoerBmAHHAhyZbk | RHW | 13/10/2014 |
Trying to keep up with Rob again. 
 
Scramble or climb over into gallery rising from SE corner. Scramble L up first gallery which is free of the guano to come. Round 'Hairy Corner' into corner with step R up onto narrow but solid ledge. Take ledge to the end and belay. Up the crux, 'The Pitch', Mild/Severe definitely no more than Severe, holds good on L then friction with small holds over curve to ledge. 
Rest is Easy/Mod but crappy with guano and some rubble. Keep the same direction L all the way to summit (ignore the tempting, level ledge R part way). 
 
Top is rubbish and muck. 
 
Seconded on rope with Richard and Denise Mclellan. | Eddie | 13/10/2014 |
(not ticked) 2 day trip in sub-optimal conditions. Both stacs very slimy, too much swell to land. Report and photo links: https://mega.nz/file/poImTbiA#oFdG1_6F4v1cTA4KjsqEx8heqcVcRqt4KTHUHTxQJVc | RHW | 23/11/2013 |
(non-summit log) known ascents since the St Kildans were evacuated on 29/08/1930 include: 
21/05/1990 Jon Warren, Andrew Elwell (lead) + Steve Holloway (Warden) (web; Quine); 
30/5/1985 Richard Castro (lead), Wayne Rodgers, Peter Moore (Warden) (article); 
1980s Nigel Banks, former CO at base; 
1969 Dick Balharry, Morton Boyd (SMC Islands Guide) | RHW | 01/06/1990 |
Dave McG | 03/12/2023 | |
Tricky | 17/10/2015 | |
richtea5040 | 17/10/2015 | |
Alan Whatley | 17/10/2015 | |
Tony S | 17/10/2015 | |
RichardM | 13/10/2014 | |
Denise | 13/10/2014 | |
PGCE | 13/10/2014 | |
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