South Peak, Skellig Michael, Co. KerryThe South Peak of Skellig Michael is the part most people never see. It rises beyond the monastery, beyond the last of the steps, a blade of rock that drops straight into the Atlantic on every side. Early monks climbed out here. That fact alone is hard to process when you're looking at it. I made this photograph from the ridge connecting the two peaks, looking south along the spine of rock toward the pinnacle. Lichen covers the foreground slabs in