Peak beauty: Optical illusion captured during climb up mountain

A hiker snapped an optical illusion at the peak of one of Scotland’s toughest mountains – and described the Brocken spectre as “like God was on drugs”.

Iain Weir, 32, travelled to the Isle of Skye for a few days and hiked up one of the hardest mountains in the country, Sgurr nan Gillean in the Cuillins. He was astonished to see a rainbow halo form on the summit, where his shadow was projected on to clouds opposite the sun’s direction – also known as a Brocken bow. Iain, a transport planner, said it was “beautiful”.