Brit lands on Rockall with survival podule, starts record attempt

But 2005 was the Year of the Vulture on Rockall

Undaunted, I returned to Rockall in 2005 for a second pop ...

Success: Our 2005 ascent of Rockall

...and was rewarded with this view from the very ledge on which Hancock is now sitting:

A rock with a view

We wish Nick the very best of British, and anyone who can't really see the point of his escapade has not experienced the strange attraction the world's remotest islet exerts over all those who have seen it. ®