Newly-weds scale Skye peak in wedding outfits

A newly-wed mates person celebrated their matrimony by climbing Skye's 2nd highest acme successful their wedding outfits.

Victoria Forbes and Mark Lyons carried the wedding dress, suit and climbing cogwheel up Sgùrr Dearg.

The keen climbers from the Scottish Borders past donned their wedding outfits to standard the apical section, called the Inaccessible Pinnacle.

Their wedding lensman captured the infinitesimal earlier they abseiled backmost down.

The 986m (3,234ft) precocious upland successful the Cuillins is topped by an imposing rocky formation, nicknamed the In Pinn.

Mark stressed they would not person attempted the roped ascent and abseil descent if they had not had the skills and due instrumentality to bash truthful safely.

Portree-based Becy Stabler, of Belle Art Photography, captured the ascent for the newly-weds' wedding album.

Victoria and Mark, who got engaged during a travel to northbound westbound Africa's Atlas Mountains, had antecedently climbed Sgùrr Dearg.

They were wed successful a ceremonial past Friday adjacent to the upland and saw an accidental to rekindle the memory.

Mark, who has been climbing since the 1990s, said: "We were joined successful Glen Brittle conscionable beneath the Cuillin mountains and owed to our peculiar memories of the archetypal ascent we decided to revisit it successful our wedding attire the pursuing day.

"Our astonishing wedding lensman Becy Stabler accompanied america truthful we could person photos alongside our wedding photos."

Reaching the In Pinn, which involves stone climbing for the ascent and an abseil backmost down, meant walking and scrambling implicit rocky terrain for much than 2 hours.

Mark said: "On the Inaccessible Pinnacle determination was a fistful of chap climbers. The emotion and each the congratulations that came with this is beauteous and we convey everyone for their champion wishes.

"The wedding formal and suit held up good until we had an impromptu aquatics successful the loch sat successful Coire Lagan connected the locomotion out."

He added: "The ascent would ne'er person happened if we weren't perfectly blessed we could bash it safely successful the conditions that were fixed and our usage of the indispensable information instrumentality carried.

"We would ascent the In Pinn again - but volition ne'er repetition it dressed up."

All images copyrighted to Belle Art Photography.