Rockfaces

The Rockfaces Page is devoted to rocks that look like faces, as opposed to faces of rocks, and it is up to you to submit photos for inclusion.

Many thanks to those who have submitted photographs.

Please submit a photograph

For more of the same, but taken a bit more seriously, see: http://facesintherocks.com

Sleeping Giant,
Galloway Mountains

Photo:
Stephen Reid
©2001

Ajdovska Deklica on the North West face of Prisank, Julian Alps.

Photo:
Tony Simpkins
©2001

This is Cigar Face, who resides at the base of Charlotte Dome in Kings Canyon National Park, CA. A curmudgeon that likes to be left alone, however, good stogies always helps to persuade him for admission.

Photo:
Lawrence Garcia
©2001

Pedro do Baci, Sierra da Mantiqueria, Brazil. Look for the person standing with hands on hips in the centre of the tower.

Photo:
John Biggar
©2001

Left: The Skull, Joshua Tree, USA.
Photo: John Biggar ©2001

Right: Easter Island Man(?), Lundy
Photo:Nick Wharton ©2002

The Skull on High Crag in Glen Nevis.

Very Peter-Pan-esque!

Photo:
Chris Murray
©2001

D.I.Y. Rockface, Joshua Tree, USA.

Photo of Linda Biggar:
John Biggar
©2001

This picture is one of many taken in the northern latitudes of Mars by the Viking 1 Orbiter in search of a landing site for Viking 2.

The speckled appearance of the image is due to bit errors, emphasized by enlargement of the photo. The picture was taken on July 25, 1976 from a range of 1873 kilometers (1162 miles).

This photo has been much discussed by UFO proponents, although more recent, more detailed photos showed the 'face' to be nothing more than a rugged hill.

Sphinx Rock, The Napes, Great Gable in the English Lake District.

And another view of Sphinx Rock, The Napes, Great Gable in the English Lake District.

The Devil's Face, Beacon Hill, Leicestershire.

Photo: Shamelessly purloined from the About Leistershire website, with apologies and acknowledgements to the anonymous photographer.

The Baboon Face Boulder as seen from the A85 just north of Glen Ogle, Scotland.

Left: The Grey Man of Merrick, Galloway Hills

Below: Two Grey Men!

The Tryfan Ghost (as seen from Grooved Arete).

Photo: Steve Jones
© 2002

Jabba the Hut (from Star Wars)
as seen at Gardom's Edge!

Right: Taken at Franchard-Isatis, Fontainebleau.

Below: Here's a spooky one ,only visible to readers of Gray's Anatomy or those climbers familiar with The Sisters of Mercy who happen to be into visiting esoteric Lancashire Gritstone backwaters. This is Cold Stone Crag.

Left & Right: Faces in the Gower.

Left & Below Left: Two shots of Skull Buttress, Aill na Cronain, the Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland

Right: Another of the Skull at Joshua Tree

Below: Iceface! Edge of the Ice Shelf, Antartica

Left: Icehead on Carnedd Llewelyn
(the face was over 2m high)

Photo: Robin Shaw© 2005

Right: Another one of those enigmatic South Pacific
stargazers. This time in Aotearoa.

Left: Rockface at Finale, and Right: Spot the difference - with Ian Dugdale.

Photos: Ian Dugdale and Jeff Fiddler© 2005

Left: Curtis Crag, Northumberland.

Photo: Peter Speck© 2005

Above: Indian Face, Yosemite.

Photo: Jude Osborne © 2005

Above: The Old Man of Beinn Tarsuinn on Arran (Brodick in the background.) .

Photo: Dave Durie © 2005

Left: Gorilla in the mist, Sguurr nan Gillean, Skye.

Photo: Tom Walker © 2000

Above: This small boulder stands amongst the famous Cheesering Stones
at Minions in Cornwall.

Photo: David Neale © 2005

Below: Two views of the Queen's Head at Queen's Crag, Northumberland.

Photos: Trevor Suddaby © 2006

Above: The Hare's Head, Brimham Rocks, Yorkshire.

Photo: Stephen Reid © 2006

Above: A rockface in one of the torrs on Beinn Rinnes (a “Ronnie” in Moray, Scotland). .

Photo: Karen Clarke © 2006

Right: Chir Mor, left of Labyrinth, Arran, Scotland.

Photo: Ian Stewart © 2006

Left: Coire an t- Sneachda, on the top buttress above Alladin's Couloir, Cairngorms, Scotland

Right: Prophet Walls at Cummingston (Moray coast, Scotland ).

Right-hand buttress at the top – full monkey head (complete with tufty hair)

Underneath is a face profile of a human “Desparate Dan” with square forehead, boxers nose and chunky chin.

On the left-hand side on the “Balamory Boulder” is a large chimpanzee face with protruding nose and lips


Above: Not the Grey Man of Merrick! Roddy Dunse has been to the right location but shot the wrong face!! The right-hand photo shows the true Grey Man on the right-hand side of the photo. On the evening the photos were taken the sun was getting low in the sky and right behind the rock face hence the other image being silhouetted against the evening sky. This impersonator has a smile, eyebrows and a drip on the end of his nose! Photo: Roddy Dunse © 2006

Left:
At the end of the first climbing section of the Via delle Trincee in the Italian Dolomites.

Right:
Monkey Face on the path to Trollers Gill, Yorkshire.

Left:
Taken whilst climbing on a limestone crag at Seyne, southern France. You have to line the tufa's up to make the face.

Left:
St. Abbs Head, Scotland

Right: Cowbar Cliffs, near Staithes, North Yorkshire.

Right:
The Squinting Maori, Quantum Field, Castle Hill, New Zealand.

		Here are three from Andy Cannon, from top left clockwise: (1) A couple of bouncers at Cannon Rock, Brimham - ready to beat up anyone who doesn't make the jump, (2) The stern "Priest's Face" on Le Chapelle de la Gliere, Chamonix. He looks like he's having a rant at the climber in front of him, (3) The "Great White Shark" on Les Cheserys above the Col De Montets, Chamonix. Photos: Andy Cannon © 2007

Left: Another face in the rock - Naismiths Route, Basteir Tooth, Cuillin Ridge - a delicate profile above the cloud.