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Arctic adventure and solitary long-distance walking. Not the average pastimes of a woman born in Scotland in 1889. Kirsty MacDonald follows in the footsteps of pioneering Scottish adventurer Isobel Wylie Hutchison from her birthplace at Carlowrie Castle near Edinburgh to Greenland.

Being related to Isobel, this is a personal journey for Kirsty. She retraces part of the route Isobel took when she walked the length of the Western Isles in 1924.
Isobel lived a whole year on the island of Uummannaq in Greenland. Kirsty tracks down the house she lived in, meets people whose relatives were photographed by Isobel and even encounters whales in this Arctic island paradise.

Isobel had many strings to her bow: a writer of diaries, books and poetry, an artist, a film-maker and a botanist who travelled the Arctic sending back specimens to Kew Gardens and the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

Coiseachd astaran san Artaig na h-aonar. Chan e sin an àbhaist do bhoireannach a rugadh an Alba ann an 1889. Tha Curstaidh NicDhòmhnaill a’ leantainn cheumannan Iseabail Wylie Hutchison bho Chaisteal Carlowrie faisg air Dùn Èideann chun na Graonlainne.

’S i càirdeach dhi, ‘s e turas pearsanta a tha seo do Churstaidh. Ann an Uibhist tha i a’ gabhail rathad Iseabail nuair a choisich ise faid nan Eilean Siar ann an 1924. Dh’ fhan Iseabail bliadhna an eilean Uummannac sa Ghraonlainn. Tha Curstaidh a’ faighinn lorg air an taigh anns a robh i a’ fuireach, a’ coinneachadh dhaoine càirdeach ri na dhealbhaich i agus fiù’s a’ faighinn faisg air mucan-mhara.

Bha iomadach comas aig Iseabail: sgrìobhaiche leabhraichean-latha, nobhailean ‘s bàrdachd, neach-ealain agus filmeadair. Na lus-eòlaiche shiubhail i air feadh an Artaig is thìll i eisimpleirean air ais gu Gàrraidhean Kew agus Dhùn-Eideann.

In Gaelic with English subtitles