The Soldier's Leap - Would you try it?
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Meet Donald McBane - career soldier and legendary swordsman. Donald is probably most famous for The Soldier's Leap, the place some claim he jumped 18 feet across the River Garry to avoid being killed by Jacobite soldiers after the Battle of Killiecrankie
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Love Pitlochry, also Aberfeldy ❤❤ Many a happy holiday. Yeah, been to the Soldier's Leap and no, I wouldn't leap it. 😂😂 👍👍💯💯
I thought it was going to be Randolph’s leap on the Findhorn a bit further north, so this was a nice new tale for me!
Thank you for "not proving it"! ❤ Great story and such beautiful scenery.
Haha. No chance I would try it.
At least he kept it real by losing his shoe! 😂 That makes it true🎉🎉
Excellent presentation! That countryside is gorgeous and not altogether unfamiliar, as it looks a lot like the mountains and water here in East Tennessee, USA. Thanks for this - it was great!
Thanks for sharing with us more great and interesting tales from Scotland! Ive heard the midges are really bad! Beautiful scenery!
great landscapes, great story, great storytelling... as usual
Scotland never ceases to amaze me! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
As my nine-year-old would say, "neither me." :-)
Oh lovely Pitlochry, went there on a school trip 🥰 Thanks Robert for the history of the soldier and his leap of faith, mind you, I'm glad you never had a go😅
Have a lovely evening Robert and family ❤️
Thank you, Robert. Sometimes, we as humans can do amazing things when the adrenaline is rushing through. Thank you for sharing this story. 🙂♥️
Ah, yes! My stepfather once lifted a heavy agricultural implement off his brother and had no idea how he managed it.
I much enjoy your videos and stories! Thank you.
Robert, I envisioned a broken leg or ankle with that leap. Or. at least getting very wet. Excellent choice, you standing by.
This reminds me of the famous jump of Geronimo in the Wichita Mountains. He did survive his jump, though, because it was witnessed by troops, and he was arrested and held at Ft. Sill after.
Beautiful scenery cool story. Thank you❤❤❤
Thank you!
Robert, when did you sneak this one out ? Nice quant little town, ❤them 👍😎🏴/🇺🇸 !
It is very beautiful looking.
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Great video Robbie, good to have you back as you say yourself I think we would all jump under the circumstances.
Thanks, Cameron. The water level was down a bit on the day I visited so it looked a lot more possible!
So beautiful! I love Pitlochry. And another fabulous tale told well!
Good choice to not try to jump that distance. Beautiful scenery and great history. Thank you.
Thanks Robert. That is an awesome story and beautiful scenery.
Great story Bob… excited for your family book to hit the market. 👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks Robert! In my childhood we had a "brook" that looked similar to the burn (?) in the story. We would spend the day leaping from rock to rock since there wasn't a lot of other entertainment. I would easily do 1 meter but no, without the incentive of an angry soldier, I wouldn't try that distance.😁
This one is more of a river than a burn I'd say, but the water level was really low when I visited. :-)
Amazing video thank you for sharing. I love Pitlochry and Killin. Not been for years but its always such a lovely visit with very friendly people and both have that `just like going home` feeling. As far as the Soldiers leap, hell nooooo lol Id watch someone try but myself, nope. Blessings to all x 🙏🌹🦄
It's a beautiful area. Need to go on holiday again soon.
Such beautiful scenery! I got a chuckle from the "red coat" statement, reminded me of something I learned in school. Wonderful story, as always! Love how you tell it, not just reading but, pulling us into the storyline with your different tones of voice! Waiting for more!❤❤
So beautiful Robert- it cries out to be seen on a big TV screen!!
Great story as so many Scottish stories are, glad you’re not giving it a go, ha!!🏴
Really like you and your brother's videos! I had to be sure to watch this one because I have such vivid memories of this place on a bus tour of Scotland some years back. You see, our group always stopped and toured whatever sight that was worth seeing ... until we got to Soldier's Leap. Unbeknownst to me, when our group filtered out of the info center, they and our guide were headed for the BUS. But I was delayed in leaving the center and wrongly assumed we were headed down to the Leap. Wrong!
After waiting a few minutes, our impatient guide ordered the driver to leave without me. Me, not seeing any of our group along the trail, kept heading faster and faster down the trail, CERTAIN I would catch up -- but soon realized that I was NOT a slow climber and had seen NO one. But by that point, I was so close to the Leap, I thought "What the hell, I may never be back here again!"
So unlike the rest of the group, I even got a photo of the site -- and long story short was soon able to catch up to my group in Pitlochry with the help of our nearby hotel and a driver they had handy to give me a lift. :-)
Cheers, Robert. At least 10 pounds of clothing and accoutrement, smooth-soled shoes (minus 1, perhaps)...no thank you. People were certainly made of sterner stuff back in the day. Thanks for the story and the scenery, as always.
Is there no place in all of Scotland that isn't fit for photos??? Beautiful! K.
Here because the Hoof GP sent me over!
I found the channel brothers separately and then found the connection. Something in the water perhaps?
Hi Robert, great story. No need to try and prove it by jumping, we'd like to keep you around. Take care and stay safe till next time. ❤️
We have a livers leap here in West Virginia but the history behind it is not nearly as important or interesting. You do havea way of telling a great story that makes one want to listen till the end. Thanks Robert. 👍💯
Thank you! :-)
Thanks for yet another very entertaining and informative video. And for showing us more of the beauty of Scotland.
As to his jump a couple of possibilities come to mind. One is that though he did say it was a jump of 18 feet he was being chased at the time and it is not like he could pause for a moment and get his tape measure to check it. So the jump may have seemed like 18 feet in his own mind but was possibly much less. Another possibility is that the actual jumping off point and the landing point were closer and that the place he jumped from and or landed at have been is no longer there, possibly washed away.
There is also, of course, the possibility that with him being chased by a big hairy highlander intent on killing him it gave his feet wings and he did make the jump he claimed.
I suspect Donald liked to embellish things a bit. When I was filming the river was down a bit so there was definitely less of a gap.
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Love it! 🌧️
Thank you!
Thankyou ✌️
It's way more beautiful there than here! I envy you!
More beautiful than where I am too! :-)
Your reply and ❤️ made my day! Thanks 👍!
Love Pitlochry!♥️❤️
Me too!
Good video
Thank you!
The Queen's view! I've been there! 😃 It was the first stop we made after crossing the Scottish border during our Highlandstour.
Awesome story of McBane. I heard of him through Fandabidozi's channel with regards to swordfighting. Hadn't heard this one though. Beautiful place.
lovely story! thank you for sharing the history!
Hope you're not facing any problems with what's going on in the UK. Be safe..
Wouldn't know what to do without the story's and scenery.
Bring on the death and religion!!
All good here, thanks. Business as usual in Edinburgh. Apart from the festival! :-)
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Hopefully that is a grand time and everyone stays safe!!
Great story and well told 😊
I’m pleased you didn’t feel the need to prove it. 🥴You would be missed. 😢 Great story telling, you are a natural. 😄👍
Just saw a video about Greyfriar's Kirkyard in Edinburgh, on another RUclips channel. Have you ever explored that graveyard or done a video of it? Best wishes either way, Robert. Your videos are fantastic.
Thank you! I have indeed. If you check the videos list, it's still in there from April last year. ruclips.net/video/qOf-gAtiXV4/видео.html
@@scotlandunplugged many thanks for the link.
@@scotlandunplugged it turns out I had already watched, liked, and commented on the video. I just have a really bad memory, I guess. Heh.
Robert- Lad, don’t try it. We need you to bring us nice programs.
Hoof GP sent me. Love your videos too!
When I first learned of _Soldier's Leap,_ another _Scotsman_ was telling the tale. He said he didn't see it as improbable at all. _"Six hairy-arsed Jacobites chasing you close behind is quite enough motivation the clear the jump."_
I agree.
i tried it once after a sesh at the pub, failed…
lol. 😂
Haha. Really?
The HoofGP send me to say Hi. You actually sound a lot like him and your videos are also cool
No way in hell did he jump that , with the kind of breeches he would have wearing plus thick shirt , he was probably a good swimmer and jumped in the water or just hid among rocks till things died down then skulked away 😊
Where have you been, Robert? On vacation? I have missed your guided tours of Scotland but have been spending some time with my cousin at the Frazier family homestead.
Talking of unbelievable 😂 , we're actually just editing oor vlog on a walk up above that and that subject right noo 😊
Haha. Brilliant!
@scotlandunplugged we walked up Craig Fonviuck 413m right above the leap and down to the Killiecrankie visitors centre then went doon tae the waters edge at the leap and back tae the campsite at Faskally ...Great walk
Great story!! Love the scenery. Is the water always so brown? Is it runoff from recent rains or something to do with the rocks? Reminds me of dark beers.
Hello Story teller !! I wonder, the divide might be a wee bit wide, my next question would be, was the "rapid" that "rapid" then, maybe there was less water flow than today, that might have explained how he got across? Rocks on both sides look very wet, so foot purchase must have been rough, to say the least. And was that the exact spot he jumped, or maybe he took the leap from another vantage point, and named the soldiers leap to make it sound all the more dangerous?? (Authors prerogative to embellish his story).
"I fought at land, I fought at see
At hame I fought my auntio..."
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Not on my life ! I'm too old and out of shape !
Have you ever heard the story of the covenenters and greyfrairs graveyard i think you should do a story on it
Hoof GP sent me here.
Baskethilts would probably work better than broadswords but the story wouldn't be as good.😁