Haakon died during an unsuccessful expedition to the Hebrides in 1263, and in 1266 his son and successor, Magnus VI, ceded the Hebrides and the Isle of Man to Scotland in return for recognition of the Norwegian claim to the Orkney and Shetland islands.
Further expeditions to the site have yielded spectacular material.
2005 saw two expeditions to the Titanic.
In 1263 the dispute with the Scottish king over the Hebrides induced Haakon to undertake an expedition to the islands.
Messner recounted the adventure in Everest: Expedition zum Endpunkt (1978; Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate).
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"I would like to take the swan across to the Hebrides," Sinclair says.
In 1773 Johnson set forth on a journey to the Hebrides.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785) tops all the others published later.
Now, enjoying the trip for the first time, he was bound from the Scottish mainland to the Hebrides.
