al78 wrote:If used responsibly, they can be used to create stunning flybys of outstanding scenery, like this footage of Suliven....
The low lying rugged landscape covered in lochs, with the hill poking up has been captured brilliantly. It looks very much like a localised region of hard rock that has been put down in layers, and has resisted erosion over time.
Off-topic, but for those interested in geology, there's been a recent change in the thinking about the survival of Suilven and the other isolated tops in the far northwest. Suilven is largely Torridonian sandstone, which is actually a softer rock than the gneiss of the surrounding lochan-strewn landscape. Until recently it was thought that Suilven and the others were 'nunataks', which were already high ground at the time of glaciation; and the level of the ice which scoured everything else never reached high enough up their sides to obliterate them (there are many of these rock islands in a sea of ice in modern Greenland etc). However, ice-transported rock from elsewhere has now been found near the summit, so it must have been covered in the last glaciation after all. It's now thought that survival was just a matter of luck - the main flow patterns of the moving ice happened to pass around rather than above these tops, leaving this narrow ridge of rock relatively unscathed.
